Doesn’t it seem that it is always about Barack? Whether the speech at the U.N. or campaigning for the Olympics at Copenhagen (Obama used the first-person singular pronoun in some form or another, “I” or “me”, 23 times in thirteen paragraphs just at Copenhagen alone) – he constantly talks about himself. George Will comments that “The danger to the President is that Vain is going to attach to him.”
I think it is much more than vanity. I think that the President honestly feels that he is the one who will save the world from itself, that his very presence will make all the difference in the world.
But he doesn’t understand that there is a profound difference between someone liking you – and respecting you.
What’s alarming is whether it indicates a belief on the part of the President which is that there is no problem that will not melt before the sunshine of his charm. And this is evidence again that it’s not so. The President and First Lady went to Copenhagen and gave little speeches about themselves. She, Mrs. Obama, used the first-person singular pronoun in some form or another, “I” or “me”, sixteen, 34 times in sixteen paragraphs. He used it 23 times in thirteen paragraphs. It was all about them, and the danger is an adjective sooner or later attaches to presidents. Honest Abe, Tricky Dick Nixon. All kinds of adjectives. The danger to the President is that Vain is going to attach to him. NewsBusters
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