He’s the One
I am the one I’ve been waiting for.
I disagree with Charles Krauthammer on many things, but he has gimlet eye for Opossum:
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.
The occasion for Krauthammer’s piece is Obama’s trip to Europe, where I suspect niceties like the fact that he has not actually been elected President will be dispensed with in the interests of diplomacy. He wants to speak at the Brandenburg Gate, just like all the other Presidents have done, and I personally look for the Great Seal of Opossum to make a reappearance. He’ll talk about the seas calming and his handlers will distribute loaves and fishes; people will faint, babies will be born (or conceived), and then Jimi Hendrix will rise from the dead and play The Star-Spangled Banner. It’ll be great.
Via myiq2xu at the Confluence, from whom I also snagged the stirring and extremely inspiring photo.
14 Responses to “He’s the One”
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kenoshaMarge says:
There was a time I would have doubted agreeing with Krauthammer about much of anything. Times change and truth pops up in the damndest places.
Don’t you just love that picture? I bet if you looked up arrogant in an updated dictionary that smarmy mug would be looking right back at ya.
Goddess I loathe this little twit, all his little twitlets, the adoring media that worships at his feet of clay and the Democratic Party that selected him for us.
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Delphyne says:
“Obama apparently works alone.” Heh.
He is just insufferable. That picture makes me wish I had a pie to lob at it.
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GRL says:
Wait till Brian Williams gets done with elevating Obama in Europe!!
EXCLUSIVE: Brian Williams Writes Home…
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5kj9l8NOTE: My nephew occasionally goes into New York for his job and last night, while walking past the GE building, he came across this note, which had apparently been dropped by Williams as he left the building following his nightly newscast. Hat tip to my nephew for typing up the note and sending the contents along to me via email.
Gee, it’s even on the actual GE memo/letterhead, too!!!
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Gayle says:
GRL,
That’s very funny.
All three network anchors are going to follow Obama around on his faux Presidency tour, are they? And here I was thinking cable news sucks.
Will they cast roses before his feet as he walks?
I agree with one of the posters on your linked thread: some very powerful, rich people are in the tank for Obama. This is not good news for the rest of us.
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ms. jared says:
did you here the interview on Fresh Air the other day about “Obama and the Chicago Establishment”? it was really interesting and enlightening on a number of levels. when i finished listening i just kept thinking it was a lot like the “mccain maverick” thing.
for all of obama’s “hope” this and “change” that, he’s pretty much pro status quo and not one to rock the boat other than to propel himself up the political ladder.
they also made a good point on how hillary was immediately cast as the “manipulative political insider” with obama as “obambi” when in reality, he’s been very adept at manuevering and playing politics since he got into it in the mid ’90s.
if hillary had been running on obama’s record she would have been laughed out of the race, but obama is some sort of messiah with all of his moves to the right and pandering to conservatives etc. etc. it really is barf inducing.
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ea says:
Who is going to document all the new words that have come into the lexicon this election year? I vote kenoshaMarge‘s twitlets gets included.
Other potential entries:
Opossum (new usage)
fauxgressive -
tdraicer says:
Krauthammer is a loathesome individual who has made a career out of defaming anyone to the Left of himself. So what does it say about Obama that I find myself unable to disagree with CK’s portrait of him?
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thebewilderness says:
I would say that both Ronnie Rayguns and W have Obama beaten hands down on Krauthammer’s first question. But he loved them both so dearly that those little matters of narcissism and incompetence didn’t bother him a bit.
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MikeB says:
For the first time I agree with Krauhammer.
Obama is acting like a movie star who believes his own publicity.
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Violet says:
I like Kenosha Marge’s “twitlets” too.
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Ciccina says:
re: Krauthammer / truth pops up in the damndest places…
… No worries – this is just a manifestation of the ‘stopped clock / right twice a day’ Law of Idiotic Palaver…. it happens once in a while with David Brooks, too. Give it a minute and he’ll be back to his regular crazy.
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Apostate says:
Is “twitlets” supposed to mean his daughters? Why should we target kids, no matter how much we dislike their parent?
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Violet says:
No, I think twitlets means the same as possums.
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orlando says:
The Canute allusion is embarrassing. A satirist writing a takedown couldn’t formulate something more ludicrous.
