Newt Gingrich made a great point about how counterintuitive Obama’s executive privilege move is — unless you understand Obama.

I spent a lot of time driving today, and caught a few minutes of Newt on Sean Hannity’s radio show.  Newt made a fascinating point about the Obama administration’s approach to secrets:  Obama is broadcasting far and wide national security secrets, while simultaneously attempt to use a unique and narrow executive privilege to protect one of his cabinet members.  (Newt also pointed out that, usually, cabinet members invoke the privilege to protect the White House, not vice versa.)

This reminded me of something I said to my mother, when she professed bewilderment about Obama’s something or other.  (And I honestly don’t know what of his many acts or decisions was vexing her.)  We were in a public place so, rather than go off an my stock anti-Obama diatribe, which would have been inappropriate in her doctors’ office, I said, “You know, Obama’s not really what you’d call a ‘public servant.’  He’s in this for himself.”

Once you appreciate that fact about Obama — that he exists, not to serve the public, but to advance his personal cult of personality — everything he does makes sense.  He trumpets those things that make him proud of himself, no matter how dangerous that boasting is for America; and he hides those things that reflect poorly on himself, no matter how dangerous it is for America to have these sins swept under the carpet.

Understand that Obama is all about self-aggrandizement also explains why he his so comfortable jettisoning the balance of powers that has served our nation so well.  He doesn’t even see the world as “the United States of America, with President Obama at the helm.”  His world view is “King Obama, ruler of Obamaland.”

Doesn’t everything make sense now?