Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Arrogance on display

The Great and Powerful Obama has spoken.

What an arrogant jerk. What Obama fails to realize is that displays such as this are exactly why he's losing this election. People who see this on the news tonight will remember the "presidential" seal, the Greek columns et al, and think, "yep. That fits."

I don't know whether Obama was taking a swipe at Palin with his initial remarks or not. But if he thinks he's helped himself with this arrogant peacockery, he's sorely mistaken. Nowhere in his remarks was any sort of dismissive "sorry if you took that the wrong way." Not even lip service. Just indignation that his subjects in the press would dare draw arrows between Palin's initial remarks in her convention speech and this the Dalai Bama's latest gaffe.

I have mused several times over the course of this election as to how Obama's arrogance reminds me of Rodrigo Santoro's exceptional portrayal of the Persian emperor Xerxes in the movie 300. His assumption of victory. His benevolent hand extended toward his prostrate subjects. His unbridled narcissism.

"I, Obama, am a just and merciful god..."

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