Party Of One
May 17, 2009
"Party of one." Those are words that the wait
staff at posh restaurants don't like to hear, and they're words that the
American public shouldn't like to hear. In this case, they describe not
a dining patron unlikely to produce a big tip, but a President who, almost
literally, can't see beyond himself to understand the implications of
the things he mandates for the people he presumably leads. Our President
is, in fact, a party of one, incapable of leadership, capable only of
bullying the American people based on the regurgitated leftist ideological
claptrap he's absorbed as he bounced around during his formative years.
He's made virtually every "major" announcement
alone. He wasted hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to fly out
to Denver, Colorado, for instance, to sign the stimulus bill, something
that would have been more appropriately done in the Rose Garden, with
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid - the people who put together and passed that
legislative monstrosity without so much as consulting any Republicans,
let alone reading it - by his side.
His idea of leadership goes no further than paying back
the people Rahm Emanuel tells him are his supporters, particularly the
labor unions, including, especially, Service Employees International Union,
the United Auto Workers, and the National Education Association. For narcissistic
as he is - and he is a classic narcissistic personality - at his core
he stands for nothing . . . nothing, that is, except the need to present
himself and the ideas he's been fed to a public whose adulation he's come
to expect, thanks to a complicit press corps that worships him almost
as much as the core of voters who swept him into office believing he would
pay their mortgages and buy them new cars.
He's sponged his way to the top of politics by absorbing
and internalizing the scurrilous vitriol of the Reverend Jeremiah Wrights
and the Bill Ayerses and the Saul Alinskys, and, while he doesn't hesitate
to throw his mentors under the bus when it's politically expedient, the
fact is that he still adheres, at bottom, to their teachings. His "consciousness"
is, at best, a mishmash of discredited anti-American, anti-spiritual ideological
tripe . . . and therein might lie our salvation. It might be that Obama,
hollow as he is at his core, will prove unable to sustain the remaking
of America as a Third World nation that seems to be his goal.
The resignation of Louis Caldera represents a classic
example of Obama's inability to admit that there are others in his administration
who do excellent work. As Meghan Clyne points out in a New York Post commentary,
"Bam's Scare Force One Scapegoat," the President, in his need
to deflect criticism from its true target - his own office, which was
"asleep at the switch" - in effect tarred the entire White House
Military Office with the same brush in engineering Louis Calera's resignation.
Ms. Clyne points out that the Military Office has done and continues to
do yeoman work in managing everything from Air Force One to presidential
motorcades to the Communications Agency, to mention only a few of their
responsibilities. The fact that the President "hung them out to dry"
- as he did Wright and Ayers - is emblematic of his narcissistic inability
to accept responsibility for his actions.
The real irony in Obama's looking for a Supreme Court
nominee who exhibits "empathy" is that, like most narcissists,
Obama himself is incapable of empathy. His ability to feel stops at the
boundaries of his own experience; his "emotions" consist of
"feeling" only that which he projects on the world around him.
In the most important sense, other people exist independently of Obama
only as extensions of how he views the world.
To the extent that they glorify and gratify his desperate
and insatiable needs, other people are welcome. To the extent they represent
ideas Obama is incapable of entertaining or emotions he's incapable of
experiencing, they're a threat to his fragile identity and cannot be countenanced.
In this he's very much like virtually every tyrant the past century has
produced, and for that reason he is an inadmissable risk to our way of
life.
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