By which I mean only this: is Barack Obama more of a narcissist than the average egotist running for the Presidency?
Ryan Lizza’s interesting GQ piece on Obama prompted Daniel Larison to suspect that
“In other words, underneath the megalomaniac is a con-man, and underneath the con-man is the guy with the delusions of grandeur. Sounds like a great combination.”
I was struck by the conclusion to Ryan’s thoughtful piece:
It always comes back to this, Obama struggling not to let the campaign change who he is. He has a way of reflecting on his own campaign as an outside observer. “We’ll joke,” his wife told me, “when we’re sitting at home watching TV, on the rare quiet night, and something will come on the news, and it’s about Barack Obama. We’ll say, ‘Hmm, there goes that Barack Obama again.
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