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November 15, 2011

Obama at APEC, the Same Old Narcissist-in-Chief We've Known Since Day 1 of His Presidency

David Limbaugh, on President Obama's various remarks at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO business summit in Honolulu over the weekend:

... he is simply incapable of growing in office. In just a few short statements, we saw many of the familiar practices through which he has alienated such a large percentage of the American people and damaged the economy.

Away from his teleprompter, he treated us to further insults of Americans, his unfriendly attitude toward business and the private sector, his narcissism, and his refusal to accept responsibility for his own actions.

In his Monday evening press conference from APEC, Obama showed that he can't shake his narcissistic impulses. One would think that with all that has been written about Obama's "me, myself and I" fixation, he would at least try to pretend to be other-directed on occasion, to show he has the capacity to think of his position as something larger than himself.

In his opening remarks, he didn't say that "we" or "Americans" want other nations to buy American-made goods, but "I want them to," and so "I've been doing everything I can to make sure" we stay competitive. He didn't say, "The United States was honored to host APEC this year," but "I've been proud to host APEC this year."

When NBC's Chuck Todd asked him to clarify his "hot mic" conversation with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in which they both insulted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he refused to comment, which means he refused to deny, much less apologize for offending the leader of our staunch ally, Israel, when he told Sarkozy, "You're fed up with (Netanyahu), but I have to deal with him even more than you do."

Two days earlier -- on Saturday -- Obama had modified his comment in September that Americans had "gotten a little soft" in competing in international markets. At APEC, Boeing CEO Jim McNerney asked him to consider the Chinese perspective and their concern about impediments to investment in the United States. How, wondered McNerney, would he address their dissatisfaction over these obstacles?

Rather than addressing the question directly, Obama deflected any responsibility for the situation and said, "We've been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades. We've kind of taken for granted - well, people will want to come here and we aren't out there hungry, selling America and trying to attract new business into America."

Limbaugh goes on to point out, with Obama at the helm, in economic terms, among others, we've got the worst of all possible worlds: a rigid commitment to policies that harm rather than help businesses and our economy, and (disgustingly sick) personality traits that prevent him from admitting, learning from and correcting his mistakes.

I'm left wondering the same thing that other rational, freedom-loving, believers in capitalism and the free market are wondering: 'Are there enough Americans that are naive and stupid enough to repeat in November 2011 the mistake they made in November 2007 and give this incompetent narcissist four additional years to destroy what's left of our economy and further divide the country'?

Don't bother answering that ... the answer's likely to be too depressing.

Related: When even a WaPo columnist suddenly discovers Mr. Cool is nothing more than an overrated narcissist ...

Posted by Hyscience at November 15, 2011 9:17 AM

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