Yeah – that's Obama on Mt Rushmore. Just  a bauble ornament on the Obama tree last Christmas – er, I mean, Winter Holiday.

Just a bit pretentious there.  And not only that…

Comment by Sen. Pat Roberts after an Obama-Republicans meeting: "He's pretty thin-skinned."

Yeah.

Obama is among the most thin-skinned presidents we have had…from being  upset at Fox News, and conservative talk radio, and Republicans, and people carrying unflattering posters of him. He gets upset when his avalanche of faulty  and made-up facts are challenged, like on health care.

It's like he wants his word to be the WORD and unchallanged, and how dare we question!

In Obama's eyes, he is always the aggrieved, always the violated, the put-upon, always the victim of some injustice. He is America's virtuous and valorous hero, a man of unusually pure motives and uncommon wisdom, under assault by the forces of darkness.

It is all so darn unfair.

Not surprisingly, Obama's thin skin leads to self pity…and this constant playing the martyr grows old very fast.

In a fundraising event for Sen. Barbara Boxer, Obama said,

    Let's face it: this has been the toughest year and a half since any year and a half since the 1930s.

Really?
Worse than the period surrounding December 7, 1941 and September 11, 2001?
Worse than Watergate and Jimmy Carter's  22 percent interest rates and stagflation and the "Misery Index"?
Worse than 1968 assinations and Vietnam — a war that cost 58,000 lives?

[Oh, poor baby.  Then I guess you have no business playing President.]

[What a piece of crap!  Get over yourself already.]

For Obama to complain that the problems he faces are so much worse than any other president in the last 80 years is stunningly self-indulgent, and whining.

With Obama there is also the compulsive need to admonish others, to point fingers, to say that the problems he faces are not of his doing.  [of course not]

The president's instincts are by now obvious to all: deflect blame, point fingers, and lash out at others, most especially his predecessor. We know from press reports that the strategy for the Democrats in 2010, two years after Obama was elected president, is to – still – blame George W. Bush.

What explains all this is hard to know. But it's clear he has adopted an image of himself as something rare and remarkable, a historic figure of almost super-human abilities.  Just look at what he said of himself….

"I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth."

"We are the ones we have been waiting for," Obama and his aides said constantly during the campaign.

[now that is scary!]

When arrogant men lose control of events, it can easily lead to feelings of isolation, to striking out at critics, to bullying opponents, and to straying across lines that should not be crossed.

Obama needs Truth-Tellers around him. Instead, he has brown-nosing lackeys who feed him more of this crap. 

Cockiness is not the same as Wisdom, and empty words are no substitute for real and substantive achievements.