The ego factor: Can Obama change?

“Well, the big difference here and in ’94 [attempt at health care reform] was you’ve got me,” [Rep. Marion] Berry quoted Obama as saying.

John F. Harris and Glenn Thrush Politico 11/5/2010

…Self-regard can blur into self-delusion. According to many Obama supporters and skeptics alike, it is still to be seen whether Obama […]

Althouse: Maureen Dowd speaks of Obama’s ‘righteous self-regard.’

Althouse 10/31/2010 In context:

At first it was exciting that Obama was the sort of brainy, cultivated Democrat who would be at home in a “West Wing” episode.

But now he acts like he really thinks he’s on “West Wing,” gliding through an imaginary, amber-lit set where his righteous self-regard is bound to be rewarded […]

Bradley Manning, suspected source of Wikileaks documents, raged on his Facebook page

Bradley Manning, the prime suspect in the leaking of the Afghan war files, raged against his US Army employers and “society at large” on his Facebook page in the days before he allegedly downloaded thousands of secret memos, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.

Heidi Blake, John Bingham and Gordon Rayner The Daily Telegraph [UK] 30 […]

The selective modesty of Barack Obama

Charles Krauthammer The Washington Post 7/9/2010

…[NASA administrator Charles] Bolden added that the United States cannot get to Mars without international assistance. Beside the fact that this is not true, contrast this with the elan and self-confidence of President John Kennedy’s 1961 pledge that America would land on the moon within the decade.

There was […]

Understanding Obama: learn the four types of enablers of narcissists

[CAJ Note: We follow both of these excellent bloggers, Cynthia Yockey and ‘Conservative Pup’, in our RSS feed and would urge readers to visit the sites.]

by Cynthia Yockey November 13, 2009

Conservative Pup is a nurse and she was disturbed by Obama’s cold and inappropriate behavior right after the Ft. Hood mass murder — […]

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