Obama, "A Good Solid B Plus"

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm, but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

T.S.Eliot

I thought about this very subject as I watched a video clip of President Obama being interviewed by Oprah Winfrey Sunday night. She asked him how he would grade himself for his first 11 months in office. Without hesitation he said "A good solid B plus". Oprah retorted why he was being so hard on himself. He again replied that "B plus because of the things that are undone. Health care is not yet signed. If I get health care passed, we tip into A minus."

The manual used by mental health professionals would diagnose Narcissism based on a requirement of five out of nine characteristics. I submit that President Obama clearly meets the following: (1) Grandiose sense of self importance. (2) Sense of specialness and belief he can only be understood by others of special or high status type individuals. (3) A heightened sense of entitlement, leading to unreasonable expectations that others should treat him favorably or comply with his expectations. (4) Lack of empathy, an inability or unwillingness to recognize or identify with the feelings or needs of others. (5) A tendency toward arrogant behavior or attitude.

The President went on in his interview to justify his grading by explaining that when he took office he inherited a sad economy and "eight years of jobless growth. What would 4.5% unemployment be defined as for most of the Bush Administration? Certainly not the 10% today or the promise to keep it less than 8% if only the stimulus was passed. He did try to give himself credit for Iraq but this is the same person that vigorously opposed the surge which everyone now credits as turning things around. He still will not admit he may have been wrong. He has also claimed restoration of our image abroad while conducting his apology tour and insulting our greatest ally in Great Britain and consistently shames Israel and treats as a terrorist nation that should give up a portion of its land to the real terrorist, the Palestinians supported by the Hezbollah.

Yes we can find much more that overwhelmingly does not sit right with the people of the United States. Whether your talking about the take over of banks, automobile companies, the health insurance industry or promoting cap and trade legislation, it all has a devastating effect on our economy and will continue with higher energy costs and more people in the coal industry out of work.

President Obama is without doubt a far-left ideologue. He has famously been coupled with the word Audacity. A term used by him in a book title. He has certainly met the definition of audacity with intrepid boldness and a bold or arrogant disregard of normal restraints. When you couple his far left ideologue with his narcissism, I believe there is a danger for a major disaster. I believe that is the direction of our country at this time. We can only pray for a serious change of direction.