Hussein’s Greatest Admirer - Himself
Narcissism. Charles Krauthammer rips Hussein a new one in his essay in the Washington Post today entitled “The Audacity of Vanity”:
Barack Obama wants to speak at the Brandenburg Gate. He figures it would be a nice backdrop. The supporting cast — a cheering audience and a few fainting frauleins — would be a picturesque way to bolster his foreign policy credentials.
What Obama does not seem to understand is that the Brandenburg Gate is something you earn. President Ronald Reagan earned the right to speak there because his relentless pressure had brought the Soviet empire to its knees and he was demanding its final “tear down this wall” liquidation. When President John F. Kennedy visited the Brandenburg Gate on the day of his “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech, he was representing a country that was prepared to go to the brink of nuclear war to defend West Berlin.
Who is Obama representing? And what exactly has he done in his lifetime to merit appropriating the Brandenburg Gate as a campaign prop? What was his role in the fight against communism, the liberation of Eastern Europe, the creation of what George Bush the elder — who presided over the fall of the Berlin Wall but modestly declined to go there for a victory lap — called “a Europe whole and free”?
Does Obama not see the incongruity? It’s as if a German pol took a campaign trip to America and demanded the Statue of Liberty as a venue for a campaign speech. (The Germans have now gently nudged Obama into looking at other venues.)
Americans are beginning to notice Obama’s elevated opinion of himself. There’s nothing new about narcissism in politics. Every senator looks in the mirror and sees a president. Nonetheless, has there ever been a presidential nominee with a wider gap between his estimation of himself and the sum total of his lifetime achievements?
Obama is a three-year senator without a single important legislative achievement to his name, a former Illinois state senator who voted “present” nearly 130 times. As president of the Harvard Law Review, as law professor and as legislator, has he ever produced a single notable piece of scholarship? Written a single memorable article? His most memorable work is a biography of his favorite subject: himself.
It is a subject upon which he can dilate effortlessly. In his victory speech upon winning the nomination, Obama declared it a great turning point in history — “generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment” — when, among other wonders, “the rise of the oceans began to slow.” As Hudson Institute economist Irwin Stelzer noted in his London Daily Telegraph column, “Moses made the waters recede, but he had help.” Obama apparently works alone.
Read the rest of Krauthammer’s essay here at the Washington Post.
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July 18th, 2008 at 9:12 amI have said it many, many times: Obama is trying to model JFK. JFK spoke at the Brandenberg Gate. And the willing MSM are assisting: following breathlessly his every move. Obama ate a hot dog! Obama played basketball! Obama went out to dinner! They are all going overseas with him, to breathlessly report every move. Americans are not that stupid. But they can be brainwashed, which is what the MSM has been doing since Obama announced his candidacy.
July 18th, 2008 at 9:14 amBAM! nods to Emeril
July 18th, 2008 at 9:14 am“What Obama does not seem to understand is that the Brandenburg Gate is something you earn.”
What has Duhbama ever ‘earned’?
July 18th, 2008 at 9:43 amHe’d be our first affirmative action POTUS.
Especially when the dim white guilt assholes vote for his oreo ass.
At the end of the article there is this quote from one he breeds with:
“Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism . . . that you come out of your isolation. . . . Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.”
I am so glad the messiah is coming… for I am a lost soul waiting to be saved
July 18th, 2008 at 9:45 amFor someone with zero accomplishments, he sure is a self-made man who worships his creator.
July 18th, 2008 at 9:46 amHussein Obama cannot tell the truth. His word is no good.
July 18th, 2008 at 9:56 amThe only thing he is good at is raising money, which if the truth be know has got every muslim interested in the destruction of America behind him from Farrakhan to the Iranian ayatollah plus all the left wing communist liberals in the country. This man must not be elected President.
Sully - You are *exactly* right. That fact is what could put him in the Whitehouse, and if _that_ happens the eventual results will set back race relations for a generation or more (if we can survive that long).
July 18th, 2008 at 10:06 amI won’t be surprised if the day comes that Obama proclaims an era of world peace from the Temple Mount.
July 18th, 2008 at 10:09 amPicture reminds me of a chicken.
July 18th, 2008 at 10:23 amIt’s as if a German pol took a campaign trip to America and demanded the Statue of Liberty as a venue for a campaign speech.
Or a football stadium to announce his nomination when a simple convention center will not do…What a great line by an equally great journalist.
Obama must not be terribly bright, contrary to his Harvard Law Review and the like. Because if he did, he’d be the first to understand his rise to glory not of his own doing or accomplishment, but a simple fact of serendipity and the white guilt of slavery.
If anybody should tread lightly about his own excesses, it should be Obama. I believe this oaf is ripe for the fall. And there is nothing I love to watch more than the arrogant get tossed out on their ass.
July 18th, 2008 at 10:41 am“Obama must not be terribly bright, contrary to his Harvard Law Review and the like.”
Yet another gimme for the affirmative action wunderboy considering he never actually contributed anything to the Harvard Law Review.
July 18th, 2008 at 10:53 amIf he really wanted to be like Jack Kennedy, Obama needs to screw Marilyn Monroe…and the mafia…and several thousand Cubans.
July 18th, 2008 at 11:13 amHas anyone checked this guy for the mark of the devil??
Seriouslly this guy is super scary, like outta the book of revelations scary, as in the signs of the apocolypse type stuff.
July 18th, 2008 at 12:41 pmSome would think what you said is silly, I don’t. It is surreal.
I remember Rush Limbaugh saying to keep an eye on this guy as he entered the race…He would not elaborate.
July 18th, 2008 at 12:50 pm10am obama story - obama ties his shoes
July 18th, 2008 at 2:14 pm12pm obama story - obama makes a cell phone call
2pm obama story - obama says sky is blue
4pm obama story - obama says we need change, again
6pm obama story - obama says mean people aren’t nice
8pm obama story - obama says unicorns need gov’t assistance
“Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.”
I’ll tell ya what, Michelle Obama - one of the reasons I’m voting for John McCain is your uninvolved, uninformed husband’s taste in women.
July 18th, 2008 at 3:02 pmAbsolutely spot on! Anyone ever read the Left Behind series? Carpathia was the name of the young suddenly risen satan in those books. Similarity is striking.
July 18th, 2008 at 3:15 pmobama proudly displaying a big “zero” on his chest.
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