Not at all.
And Rove is not the first to suggest it.
In his biography of Obama, which is generally positive, Chicago Tibune reporter David Mendell, noted:
"Managing Obama's healthy ego has been one of the more trying tasks for his staff and paid consultants. As Obama himself will acknowledge, his mother went to great lengths to shore up her son's confidence..."As a consequence, there was no shortage of self-esteem," Obama told me with a wry smile.
In a politician, a show of grandiose ego can be off-putting and cost support from all quarters -- media, colleagues, and, in particular, constituents -- and there were moments in the Senate campaign that when I found myself in the midst of the effort to reign in Obama's ego."
Richard Epstein, UofC law professor, widely respected Constitutional expert, and former colleague of Obama, as quoted in the Chicago Tribune:
"Obama, he says, is very good at listening respectfully and articulating all sides of an issue, but usually only as the lead-in to adopting a predictably liberal position. He describes his former colleague as an unreconstructed New Dealer who "has never met a mandate that he would vote against.So whatever free-market truth and wisdom Obama may have absorbed during his years on the University of Chicago campus, Epstein doubts we will be seeing much of it in the new Obama administration."
"Obama comes from the tradition that thinks you can get your way on social justice and economic issues without affecting productivity very much—and that's simply living in a dream world," he says. Obama and his economics team "are very smart, but the problem is these high-IQ guys always think they can square the circle; they always believe they can beat the system with a cleverer system, and they always fail."
Arrogance.
Ah, the curse of the central planner. "We'll just be smarter and do thing better and everything will work out just great!"
Such foolishness is not only unbecoming but incredibly dangerous for the rest of us when the fool holds such power. Sounds like he's Woodrow Wilson incarnate. We're in seriously deep doodoo unless we cut him off at the pass in 2010.