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Does Obama not see the incongruity? It’s as if a German pol took a campaign trip to America and demanded the Statue of Liberty as a venue for a campaign speech. (The Germans have now gently nudged Obama into looking at other venues.)

Americans are beginning to notice Obama’s elevated opinion of himself.

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And apparently they dig it.

The Audacity of Vanity - washingtonpost.com (via willbrinson, johnness)

That might be my favorite new anti-Obama argument: He’s too full of himself.

If you were Barack Obama, and you could command a crowd of 200,000 Germans before getting elected, you would love yourself too. Deservingly so. If you want constant humility and self-effacing introspection, support Emo Kid in ‘08.