He’s not bordering on arrogant, he is arrogant
When I was in junior high school, there was a girl at school whom everyone liked — well, everyone but me. I’d constantly hear that she was “so sweet” and ” so nice” and just as constantly I’d say that she wasn’t nice at all. I had an advantage, of course, when it come to this special knowledge. Since I was a geek, she didn’t waste her niceness on me, and I got to see the unvarnished nastiness behind the social-climbing suck-up. Years later, in high school, I was vindicated as her facade cracked, and more and more people realized that she wasn’t nice at all, just sneaky and vicious. It’s often the case that, if you’re not directly on the receiving end of someone’s charm, you have a more objective view of their genuine virtues.
As you know, I’ve disliked Obama from the get-go. Since I’ve always read his speeches, rather than listened to them, I haven’t been carried away by his rhetorical style and have been able to focus on the absolutely lack of substance. It’s for that reason, I think, that I was not charmed by Obama’s “wit” Hillary spoke self-deprecating of the attacks on her niceness, and Obama’s riposte, in a languid tone was “You’re likable enough, Hillary.” I didn’t think that was funny. I thought it was one of the meanest, snidest, most condescending put-downs I’ve heard in a long, long time. It put Obama as the arbiter of what’s nice and what’s not, and had him telling her, and America, that according to His Highness, she just squeaked by.
Just as my old school mate could keep up the charade of niceness for only so long, so too does Obama seem to be cracking under the strain of projecting non-stop charm:
Arrogance is a common vice in presidential politics. A person must be more than a little self-important to wake up one day and say, “I belong in the Oval Office.”
But there’s a line smart politicians don’t cross — somewhere between “I’m qualified to be president” and “I’m born to be president.” Wherever it lies, Barack Obama better watch his step.
He’s bordering on arrogance.
The dictionary defines the word as an “offensive display of superiority or self-importance; overbearing pride.” Obama may not be offensive or overbearing, but he can be a bit too cocky for his own good.
The freshman senator told reporters in July that he would overcome Hillary Rodham Clinton’s lead in the polls because “to know me is to love me.”
A few months later, he said, “Every place is Barack Obama country once Barack Obama’s been there.”
True, there’s a certain amount of tongue-in-cheekiness to such remarks — almost as if Obama doesn’t want to take his adoring crowds and political ascent too seriously. He was surely kidding when he told supporters in January that by the time he was done speaking “a light will shine down from somewhere.”
“It will light upon you,” he continued. “You will experience an epiphany. And you will say to yourself, I have to vote for Barack. I have to do it.”
But both Obama and his wife, Michelle, ooze a sense of entitlement.
Believe it or not, this anti-Obama screed comes from the AP. You should read it all — and there’s lots, lots more — here. By the way, the article mentions that same Hillary put-down that was yet another clue to me that Obama’s not nice, but he is condescending and manipulative.
Hat tip: American Thinker
