Obama 1: You Know, A Lot of Reporters Tell Me How Awesome My Economic Insights Are
Obama 2: We've Learned By Now That I Am an Amazing Speech-Maker

From Nice Deb:

"It’s interesting, in the run-up to this speech, a lot of reporters say that, well, Mr. President, these are all good ideas, but some of you’ve said before; some of them sound great, but you can't get those through Congress. Republicans won’t agree with you," Obama said.

Obama argued some Republicans privately agree with a lot of his ideas.

“I know because they’ve said so. But they worry they’ll face swift political retaliation for cooperating with me,” he said.

Who are these reporters praising the President for his "great" economic ideas, I'd like to know. I don't know if I'm more bothered by the idea that he's lying or the idea that he's telling the God's honest truth.

Because of course Andrea Mitchell would think his ideas are "great."

From @JohnEkdahl, who caught this two days ago:

Here is Obama on Obama at a gathering Monday night of Organizing for America staff and volunteers: “As we’ve learned, I’ve given some pretty good speeches before.”

Chuck Todd confessed that there was nothing at all to Obama's allegedly Major Speech, and suggested that Obama just needed to "re-energize" himself.

Todd sensed that the speeches were also a sign that the “flagging” White House is “stuck” because of a lack of agenda. “I think the president needed to do this,” Todd explained. “I think he needed to go in front of crowds, I think he needed to re-energize himself.”

But re-energize himself in what way? Given his irrepressible habit of lavishing praise upon himself, I'd say he's re-energizing himself the way a fading beauty might dress to the nines and parade herself out in front of a pub-- he needs validation, he needs a shot of adrenaline to his ego.

This is a terrible man we have for a president, a black hole of narcissism hungry to fill itself.

posted by Ace at 01:02 PM

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