Hussein Narcissism Watch - With Video
Near the kick-off of his victory speech last night, Barack Obama commented, “Thank you to my grandmother who helped raise me and is sitting in Hawaii somewhere right now because she can’t travel but who poured everything she had into me and who helped make me the man I am today.”
You remember Obama’s grandmother, right? She was the one he cavalierly tossed under the campaign bus when he initiated our national conversation on race a few months ago, comparing her to Jeremiah Wright. (By the way, how’s the national conversation on race going, anyway? Any progress?)
What was odd about this impromptu tribute wasn’t Obama’s decision to pay tribute to his grandmother. Anyone who has read “Dreams from My Father” knows Obama had a very special relationship with his maternal grandparents. I would even wager that he felt guilty about holding her up as an exemplar of white racism, and didn’t realize the words regarding her in his ballyhooed racial reconciliation speech would come out the way they did.
The oddity last night was the way Obama delivered props to himself at the end of his comments about his grandmother. He could have concluded the sentiment with “she poured everything she had into me” and that would have been touching. But he had to add that her efforts turned out a magnificent man. While his swooning acolytes no doubt share his conclusion, there’s something unbecoming and rather odd about talking up your own wonderfulness. Need I add that this part of the speech was ad-libbed and not on the teleprompter?
Speaking of Obama’s swooning acolytes, Andrew Sullivan wrote of this passage, “I thought I even saw some suggestions of tears as he remembered his grandmother.” I’m not sure what the locution “some suggestion of tears” is precisely supposed to mean, but for what it’s worth, I thought I even saw some suggestion of the ghost of Abraham Lincoln genuflecting before Obama about halfway through the speech.
(In case you’re curious, Obama’s grandmother comes up about two minutes into the speech. You can judge for yourself if there is “some suggestion of tears.”)
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“(By the way, how’s the national conversation on race going, anyway? Any progress?)”
Other than that “progress” is a moral and/or ethical concern where ‘change’ is inevitable no matter what;
June 4th, 2008 at 6:42 amquite well, thank you.
Our Dhimmicrats made history last night by nominating a 1/2 black, 1/2 typical white person, Neo-Comm Marxist who is also a devotee of Black Panther Theology clerics and 60’s terrorists to be their choice for President of the United States of America.
“some suggestion of tears.”
Dude. Andrew is gay and in love. Leave it be.
June 4th, 2008 at 6:47 amuh, Sullivan, isn’t it you that gay lover ?
June 4th, 2008 at 6:49 amcalling people that don’t approve of your palestinian sympathies “gay” is a new low…. even for you
June 4th, 2008 at 6:55 amMirror, mirror on the wall—-
June 4th, 2008 at 7:00 amHe be stylin now, jus like a looser from the hood who jus got his gubbament check on the first of da month, ja no what I mean bro, he be doin a mac down the street
I can’t tell you how proud it makes this honky to have America’s lowest dregs now apparently number in the majority.
I actually look at my children and wonder, “are their days numbered? Should I be teaching them how lie, cheat and steal to survive instead of being God-fearing, American loving adults?” That’s obviously a rhetorical question because my almost grown daughters have some serious catching up; they’ve been taught to respect and love America - not see what you can steal from it. I guess that’s taboo now and your real goal as a parent is to see just how dysfunctional you can make your kid?
Never thought I would live to see the day that Justice Thomas, Lt. Gov. Michael Steele and Thomas Sowell would be considered sellouts, but some blatantly, bogus lightweight with an American hatin’ wife would be construed as our new messiah.
June 4th, 2008 at 7:27 am“calling people that don’t approve of your palestinian sympathies “gay” is a new low…. even for you ”
hey, you persist and sign, vieux coocoo
where are my palestinian sympathies ? don’t even know one ! though I know a lot of Israeli that are my friends
June 4th, 2008 at 8:24 amyou, franchie, clearly will say anything that is expedient.
June 4th, 2008 at 11:20 amyour relativism has no bounds.
i shall call you vichy from here on
MC2 is my name, can’t help for it
though, your such a smart person of non relativy… that makes the charity looks fool
call me Vichy… I’ll call you Gestapo
June 4th, 2008 at 11:50 amhmmmm… OK. Since you genuflect to everything I say that should work just fine
Now… you got all tied up by your own lack of morality so badly that you never completed your explanation of your May 26 claim of sympathy and empathy for palestinians… please do so now. You never know… you might accidentally run into an actual point.
June 4th, 2008 at 12:18 pm“hmmmm… OK. Since you genuflect to everything I say that should work just fine”
your my BS master I confess,
also my urban vocabulary’s,
also my fondamental moral placemark.
you can laugh at anyone’s back, make cheap sarcasm,
But you don’t appreciate that anyone laught at you,
you have no sense of humor for yourself, no sense for sharing, persuaded that your a superior being, the only logic and erudit person… though your a bigoted person, full of prejugés
so that I can’t help myself from marking you with derision,
ok, it’s because of my lack of morality…
geees, what a teacher you are !
I read that we can note the teachers in your country,
5,5/20
méprise et manipule l’ audience pour des objectifs personnels
June 4th, 2008 at 12:55 pm“…méprise et manipule l’ audience pour des objectifs personnels”
Exactly the perfect description of yourself… pandering to your ‘audience’ so that you can post anything that suits your fancy for the moment… like it’s OK for you to be sympathetic to the palestinians ’cause’ until you get called on it for the moral fiasco that it is as it condones murder. Perhaps eventually even of some of those ‘Israelis that are friends’ that you claim to have…
you really are a quagmire of attempts at reasonableness and rationality and I would very much appreciate your refraining from responding to anything I post and I will do the same for you
June 4th, 2008 at 1:59 pm“méprise et manipule l’ audience pour des objectifs personnels”
désolée, that suits you better than me
“pandering to your ‘audience’ so that you can post anything that suits your fancy for the moment
Like it or not, I’ll carry on my ways, it’s my pleasure
(especially if you don’t appreciate my “relative moral”)
the rest is obviously of your bigoted and manipulative intentions, that are of your “quagmire of attempts at reasonableness and rationality”
I don’t need to justify myself one more time in front of you, I’ll never find agreement from you.
June 4th, 2008 at 2:18 pm“I’ll never find agreement from you.”
Thank you. I take pride in that simple fact.
June 4th, 2008 at 2:32 pmBut your still coming to check chouchou
“I take pride in that simple fact”
if only it was the case, I bet that ONLY your wrinkled face is the motive of your pride
June 4th, 2008 at 2:46 pm