Obama of the Narcissus
Barack Obama is such an astonishing narcissist that he has ordered up a website dedicated to fighting rumors about him. What for? Well, this is from Time magazine:
[…] a reporter from McClatchy Newspapers who was traveling aboard his plane asked him about a particularly toxic bit of hearsay that was zooming around the Internet about his wife Michelle. Obama lost his cool. “We have seen this before. There is dirt and lies that are circulated in e-mails, and they pump them out long enough until finally you, a mainstream reporter, asks me about it,” Obama said, bristling. “That gives legs to the story. If somebody has evidence that myself or Michelle or anybody has said something inappropriate, let them do it.”
That night, in a conference call, Obama told his top aides it was time for a more aggressive solution to the rumors that have been popping up on the Internet about him and his family for months. And so the Obama campaign has built what might best be described as a Web-based rumor clearinghouse, located at fightthesmears.com, in which it hopes all the shady stories about Obama’s faith, his family and his rumored connections with controversial figures can go to die.
Obama is enlisting his millions of supporters to help him hunt down and quash these stories, just as those supporters helped him turn his insurgent campaign into a history-making juggernaut. Says Obama adviser Anita Dunn: “We will not allow Michelle — or, for that matter, Barack — to be defined by rumors.”
Generally speaking, it’s a bad idea to dignify certain remarks with a response. It’s a far worse idea to collect, catalog, stick pins in —and obsess over— the stupid shit people say about you. For one thing, your enemies will know exactly how much more work there is to be done if you’re sitting around spinning the yarns right back at them. They’ll know what gets under your skin and what you know. Obama’s supporters will be saying more about him by what they don’t include on this website than what they do. Because, you know, the bad stuff that’s true isn’t going to make the cut.
Who’s this guy’s rabbi, anyway? Isn’t there a grown-up in his inner circle who has the stones to tell him what a dumbass he’s being?
