Profile in Narcissism - Barack Obama

Barack Obama edited the official White House website biographies of previous presidents going all the way back to Calvin Coolidge to add bullet-point facts about himself. For example, "On Feb. 22, 1924 Calvin Coolidge became the first president to make a public radio address to the American people. ... President Obama became the first president to hold virtual gatherings and town halls using Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, etc." With a fine president such as Coolidge, that's where the similarities end.

Most egregious, perhaps, is the graffiti that Team Obama sprayed on Ronald Reagan's bio, which falsely implies that the great man was, like Obama, a class warrior: "In a June 28, 1985 speech Reagan called for a fairer tax code, one where a multi-millionaire did not have a lower tax rate than his secretary. Today, President Obama is calling for the same with the Buffett Rule." As we have noted before, this is a major distortion as Reagan was making speeches calling for lower tax rates for everyone, not punitive rates for a few.

As the Heritage Foundation's Rory Cooper, who discovered the edits, put it, "Any person selected to the highest office in the land is bound to indulge a small degree of narcissism. But when it permeates the entire attitude and culture of the executive branch, it begins to become a problem. No president is larger than the presidency." Obama thinks he's the exception.

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