By Peter Wehner
Barack Obama’s
increasingly desperate struggle to win re-election is causing some of his worst
traits to be put on display, including petulance and self-pity. The latest
example occurred during a fundraiser in Baltimore, when the president said,
“Because folks are still hurting right now, the other side feels that it’s
enough for them to just sit back and say, ‘Things aren’t as good as they should
be, and it’s Obama’s fault.’”
This is rich. No
president in human history has quite equaled Obama when it comes to blaming
others for his problems. And during the 2008 campaign, everything wrong with
America could be laid squarely at the feet of President Bush. But now Obama, having
presided over what at this stage must qualify as among the most inept
presidencies in American history, is complaining because he’s being held
accountable.
What is fairly
astonishing in all this is the utter lack of self-awareness by the president. A
jolting collision is occurring between his own self-conception (Obama views
himself as a world-historical figure and Great Man) and the multiple and
multiplying failures of his presidency. Obama appears incapable of processing
the truth or coming to grips with reality. And so he’s spinning tales day after
day, including his fantastic (and thoroughly discredited) claim that “Since
I’ve been president, federal spending has risen at the lowest pace in nearly 60
years.”
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