Attack of the monster ego
Bookworm on Jul 25 2008 at 8:37 am | Filed under: Barack Obama
As part of an excellent analysis of the bizarre pathologies that drive Barack and Michelle Obama in this most weird of political campaigns, James Lewis writes:
Barack’s run for President is his big chance to make up for those haunting feelings of self-doubt and worthlessness. So for the Obama campaign, grandiose ego display is the answer to persistent feelings of being small and insignificant.
Barack is constantly trying to convince himself that he is OK. The outside world is just a crutch to prop up his self-esteem. But the US Constitution says nothing about the Presidency serving as psychotherapy.
In the same vein, but adding in a healthy dollop of disrespect for the media and other world figures, a satiric Brit (showing some remnants of the classic education that once made Britain great) takes a look at the Messiah shtick (h/t Pierre Legrand):
And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.
The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.
When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: “Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?”
In the great Battles of Caucus and Primary he smote the conniving Hillary, wife of the deposed King Bill the Priapic and their barbarian hordes of Working Class Whites.
And so it was, in the fullness of time, before the harvest month of the appointed year, the Child ventured forth - for the first time - to bring the light unto all the world.
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My only demurrer would be that he wasn’t all that blessed in either looks or intellect.
Somehow (DNA programming error) his angel wings ended up fastened to the side of his head; and his intellect is of precisely that value that people in the real world used to laugh at: terrific at Harvard - can’t figure out how to pack a grocery bag on his summer job.
(And of course like most Ivy Leaguers, his knowledge of actual events [i.e.: history] is pretty close to nil. It was a lovely speech yesterday, but we did not “come together” with Germany: we beat their asses flat in 1945 - again - and then were nice enough to allow them a way back into the human race. And NATO did not “confront the Soviet Union” - the USA did. NATO was hiding under a goddam rock for most of the years it took us - that would be US - to win that one, too.)