How would you like to be with Obama when he loses?

Politico ~ Nov. 5, 2010:

"In author David Remnick's Obama biography, The Bridge, he quotes White House adviser and longtime friend Valerie Jarrett:

'... I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually.... He's been bored to death his whole life. He's just too talented to do what ordinary people do.'"  

 

Two years later... for five bucks, you can be automatically entered to win:

 

... I don't know what Election Night will hold, but I'd like you to be a part of the event here in Chicago. Any donation you make today automatically enters you for a chance to meet me -- airfare and hotel for you and a guest are covered.

 

I can't imagine wanting to be with the Obamas on election night.

Notably, the president had this to say about his loss to incumbent Congressman Bobby Rush [60-31] in the March 2000 Illinois primary -- in his book, The Audacity of Hope:

"No matter how convincingly you attribute the loss to bad timing or bad luck or lack of money — it's impossible not to feel at some level as if you have been personally repudiated by the entire community, that you don't quite have what it takes, and that everywhere you go, the word 'loser' is flashing through people's minds.... They're the sorts of feelings that most people haven't experienced since high school, when the girl you'd been pining over dismissed you with a joke in front of her friends, or you missed a pair of free throws with the big game on the line—the kinds of feelings that most adults wisely organize their lives to avoid."

hmm. hmm. hmm.

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

If this guy weren't an America-despising, Israel-hating, Jew-scorning enemy of everything I hold dear, I'd have to feel sorry for him. If the words attributed to him in the "Audacity of Hope" are an honest description of his feelings -- and not merely contrived to attract public sympathy -- he may not be the narcissist we've all assumed but someone with a badly shattered sense of self and a severely impaired self-identity. Or, more likely, he's both, with the narcissism serving (badly) as a cover-up of the insecurity. Either way, as we've all said many times, he's probably the worst case of "damaged goods" ever to serve in the presidency.

[Safti]

I think Mannie has it right...again.

[Yael]

Mannie, a word of caution. That quote was from a book he may or may not have written himself. And even if he did write it, as with so much else regarding this man, it may not be true. So it's impossible to know what his real reaction was. I guess we'll have to study up on how pathological narcissists react to rejection.

[Mannie Sherberg]

Thanks, Yael -- you're right on the money. I agree completely. That's why I said the words were "attributed" to him; for all I know, Bill Ayers may have written them. If I'm not mistaken, Jack Cashill -- who probably knows more than anyone else about Obama's "authorship" of the books published under his name, believes "Dreams from My Father" was certainly written by Ayers but that "Audacity of Hope" -- because it's much more sloppily written than "Dreams" -- may be of joint authorship, with more of Obama's actual writing than the earlier book. I'd be willing to bet that if Obama outlives Methuselah, he will never divulge the truth about how these books came to be. And I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the passage you quoted was contrived to make us feel sorry for Obama -- and in no way reflects his real feelings at the time. In fact, I'm not sure the word "real" can be used about anything actually said by or attributed to The One. The man is as counterfeit as Monopoly money.