Surrounded by this kind of adulation and sycophancy, it’s no wonder Obama seemingly has so little ability to adjust, change course, or have any kind of real introspection.
Weasel Zippers reports:
In his biography of Obama, “The Bridge,” David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, quotes White House senior adviser and longtime Obama friend Valerie Jarrett: “I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. … He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. … So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. … He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do.”
Duuuuuuude. That’s borderline creepy. That’s Glenn Close is in the bathroom and the pet rabbit’s boiling in the pot kind of weird.
But in reality, I really don’t see lots of humility in the man and his acolytes do him no favor by pushing this view of himself which he has clearly bought into.
November 16, 2010 at 8:27 pm
He is all knowing! Muhhahaha!
November 16, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Wow. That was worthy of the Is Barack Obama the Messiah? blog.
November 16, 2010 at 9:24 pm
Some months ago, someone suggested reading Robert Hugh Benson's Lord of the World as an insight to Obama. Creepy, indeed. The man's eqo knows no bounds. Now if only he had skills even a fraction of that magnitude.
November 16, 2010 at 9:36 pm
Never have so many been so wrong about so few.
November 16, 2010 at 10:04 pm
Shoooot, there's way more where that came from. See Jonathan V. Last's article "American Narcissus" from The Weekly Standard:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/american-narcissus_516686.html
November 16, 2010 at 11:19 pm
It's the "bored to death" line that made me sit up and take notice.
Suggests he's looking to the People of America to entertain him from his ennui…darn, I just said a bad word in my head.
November 17, 2010 at 12:24 am
"…it does a man no harm to be proud of his country, and comparatively little harm to be proud of his remote ancestors. It does him more harm to be proud of having made money, because in that he has a little more reason for pride. It does him more harm still to be proud of what is nobler than money–intellect. And it does him most harm of all to value himself for the most valuable thing on earth–goodness. The man who is proud of what is really creditable to him is the Parisee, the man whom Christ Himself could not forbear to strike." -G.K. Chesterton (Heretics)
and
"…whereas it had been supposed that the fullest possible enjoyment is to be found by extending our ego to infinity, the truth is that the fullest possible enjoyment is to be found by reducing our ego to zero."
-G.K. Chesterton (Heretics)
November 17, 2010 at 1:09 am
Thanks, Anon 7:24. Amazing quotes.
November 17, 2010 at 1:50 am
Valerie Jarrett – poster child of people who worship the intellect instead of using it.
Except in this case, there's not a whole lot of there, there.
November 17, 2010 at 4:26 am
There's a book destined for the ash heap of literary hagiography. Even Mao would have blushed.
November 17, 2010 at 5:38 am
When will the whining that we 'the great unwashed' will never ever understand him stop? Its insidious because it excuses them from any culpability for anything. "Health care" a boondoggle, you just dont understand. Iran and Afghan wars still on, you just dont understand. Guantanamo still open…. well you get it.
I'll take a regular guy or gal who isnt a half bad administrator any day over this lunacy.
November 17, 2010 at 7:56 am
"..never really been challenged intellectually.."
See Presidential debate moderated by Rick Warren:
"that's above my pay grade"
November 17, 2010 at 10:23 am
Obama and his friends are just plain stupid they believe reading and science and falsification of facts as the advancement of knowledge are the real deal. Well they are wrong! All they have to do is read one book the Bible. That's it. All they need to do believe and forget about thinking. Thinking is stupid. Blindly believe is all they have to do! College is a waste of time.
November 17, 2010 at 2:40 pm
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Analyzing Reductio ad absurdum
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Analysis complete. Result: FAIL.
November 17, 2010 at 3:38 pm
Real geniuses are never bored. Ben Franklin was never bored, neither was Leonardo Da Vinci, St Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, or Winston Churchill for that matter. They were always writing, inventing, thinking, doing.Sorry Mr. Obama, but you're no Churchill. You're not even a Woodrow Wilson.
November 18, 2010 at 2:05 am
Ben Franklin Leonardo Da Vinci, St Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and Winston Churchill were all "bored" for sure. Their boredom drove them to seek out new activities to fight the boredom.