Barack Obama Is Behaving Like a Narcissistic Jackass

Found at Michelle Malkin.

Okay, I wasn't going to say anything about this because it's being covered in nauseating detail in about a bazillion other places. But to make such nasty comments about his grandmother, who is still living and in poor health, a woman who rode the bus everyday to get to work so she could keep him fed and clothed and send him to a fancy-schmancy private school -- well, that just won't wash.

Barack Obama has forgotten where he came from, who was responsible for providing him with the opportunities he's enjoyed, and to whom he owes a debt of gratitude, at least, which he will never be able to repay. And which he seems disinclined to repay, given the tone of his latest comments.

He calls her a racist because she was frightened by an aggressive panhandler years ago, a man who responded to her gift of a dollar (and she's not required to give the jerk anything but a dollar apparently wasn't good enough for him -- he should have gotten a job) by threatening her. She was right to be frightened, and the jerk's skin color was the least of it. Look at the picture at the link. It was taken years ago and does she look like a person who could defend herself against some thug? It would have taken two seconds for him to have sent her to the hospital, or the morgue. That she was frightened was what she should have been. Fear has a function and is rooted in thousands of years of evolution -- her life was in danger and she knew it. That her husband and that narcissistic twit she was saddled with raising chose to focus only on the thug's skin color says volumes about them.

So apparently, even after the uproar over his slamming his grandmother, who does not grant interviews because she's ill, Obama continues to stick his foot in it. He did an interview with Angelo Cataldi this morning on WIP AM Sports Radio in Philadelphia and he did it again. The archive to Angelo Cataldi's interviews is here and the interview with Obama is now up. According to someone who was listening, he referred to his grandmother "a typical white person who fears people on the street."

At the first sign of a real crisis, and for God's sake it's a getting-myself-the-Democratic-presidential-nomination crisis, which in my view rates just above running out of clean socks but below running out of toilet paper, he stomps all over the woman who put him in the position to do what he's doing now. How would he react to a terrorist attack on the U. S.? A recession? The use of nuclear weapons by Iran on Israel? I mean besides hiding under the desk in the Oval Office and pissing all over himself.

Obama's got no business in the White House. Maybe when he grows up, accomplishes something, gets a clue or two he might be a viable candidate (although I can't think who'd have to be running against him for me to consider voting for him -- Mohammar Ghadafy, maybe). But he's just another dirtbag politician, saying whatever he thinks he needs to say to get elected and to hell with whoever he tramples. He talks good -- but I'm thinking he means what he's saying only while he's saying it.

I keep thinking about this, too, from Hamlet -- Act II, Sc. II:

The devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape.

No, I'm not saying Barack Obama is the devil. But he isn't what he's pretending to be, either, and he has no ability or intention to save anybody. People seem to be lulled by the mellifluous tones and comforting verbiage and missing the point entirely.

Update: Edited to include information that the Cataldi-Obama interview is now up and available.

Update the Second: I listened to the interview. The pertinent comments are from 2:38 - 3:03. He says this:

"But she is a typical white person who, uh, y'know, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, y'know, there's a reaction that's been bred into, uh, our experiences that don't go away. And that sometimes come out, uh, in the wrong way. And that's just the nature of race in our society."

There's so much wrong with that statement I hardly know where to start. "Typical white person"? Who, upon being accosted by an aggressive panhandler became frightened and because the guy was black she's reacting to "experiences that don't go away"? What the hell does that mean? "The nature of race in our society" is nothing like racism, unless he wants to include Jesse Jackson in that "reaction", meaning an "instinctive" fear of black men after dark.

Even Jesse Jackson said a few years ago, "There is nothing more painful to me ... than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved."

At the end of the interview things just got borderline creepy. Cataldi sounded like the mere experience of talking to Barack Obama on the phone was enough to bring him to orgasm. Jeez.

Sorry, that was probably unnecessary. But jeez....

Update the Third: John Hinderaker of Powerline put it better than I did, plus he's got video. To read his take, go here. He says in part:

Think about it: can you imagine any Presidential candidate, in any context, describing anyone as a "typical black person?" Or a "typical Asian person?" Worse, what Obama said was that the "typical white person" views others of different races with fear and suspicion.

Yup. More at the link, go read the whole thing.

Oops, almost forgot, found by way of Instapundit.

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