Sunday, November 14, 2010

American Narcissus

Everyone else is talking about it so I might as well too: Jonathan Last's cover story on the latest issue of The Weekly Standard, American Narcissus, regarding you-know-who and his staggering self-regard. To reach the level of self-love Obama has one apparently must start cultivating it early:
People have been noticing Obama’s vanity for a long time. In 2008, one of his Harvard Law classmates, the entertainment lawyer Jackie Fuchs, explained what Obama was like during his school days: “One of our classmates once famously noted that you could judge just how pretentious someone’s remarks in class were by how high they ranked on the ‘Obamanometer,’ a term that lasted far longer than our time at law school. Obama didn’t just share in class—he pontificated. He knew better than everyone else in the room, including the teachers. ”

Read the whole thing.

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