The Twoosh Master’s Tweet Lacks Twooth (Video)

See if you can say that three times fast.

Folks, the jury is in – our amazing President has officially gotten his “cool” back because he has set a  “record” for composing the first “perfect tweet” by a President. Yes, I’m sure we’ll soon see this historic feat referenced in some other President’s biography on the White House website.

Granny Jan memorialized the momentous occasion by creating this lovely tribute video:

Obama was obviously proud of himself so I hate to nitpick, but there are a couple of problems with his twoosh.

Here it is, via The Blaze:

First of all,  the tweet’s “Twoosh” status is in contention…

And Gateway Pundit couldn’t help but notice something else that’s kinda questionable – this whole idea that alternative energy prices are getting cheaper:

Brian Hughes at the Examiner wrote this today.

Obama spent $90 billion of his stimulus package on green energy projects, including weatherization of buildings and development of electric vehicles. Yet, by the end of last year, just 16,100 people landed new jobs in the so-called green industry, Labor Department statistics show, far short of the 200,000 jobs the White House projected it would help create each year.

That comes out to $5.5 million per green job. What a deal!
But at least President Obama says the cost is coming down. We can hope… But, probably not until after the November election.

I would also note that oil is getting more expensive as a direct result of Obama’s own policies.

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The Organized Left Now Stalking Romney

Stalking Republicans office holders and candidates has become a favorite tactic of the left. Just ask Governor Walker. He can’t even appear at non-political events like book readings to schoolchildren, Christmas tree lightings, or the opening of the WI State Fair without being hounded by radical unionistas and leftists in Wisconsin.

Occupiers dogged Republican candidates  at numerous primary appearances, earlier this year, and now MoveOn is promising to hound Romney at all of his outdoor speaking engagements.

The following is an email sent to all MoveOn members. Note that it starts off bemoaning how the presidential election is going to be “one of the dirtiest ever” (excuse me, who’s fault is that?!) while in the next breath, suggesting that MoveOn members donate to their campaign of harassing Romney everywhere he goes from now until election day…

Dear MoveOn member,

This is shaping up to be the dirtiest presidential election ever. And the most expensive, with pro-Romney super PACs and huge corporations spending like drunken sailors, thanks to Citizens United.¹ The sheer quantity of misleading ads will be stupefying.

But even if they buy the airwaves, they can’t buy the skies. So we can “rise above” their dirty ads—literally—and fly messages from the 99% over dozens of Mitt Romney events. We already did it successfully when we hired a plane to fly over Romney’s Liberty University graduation speech towing a banner that read: “GOP = HIGHER SCHOOL DEBT.”²

We can’t afford hundreds of millions of dollars of TV ads. But it turns out, if we all chip in a bit, we can afford to fly banners over Romney’s head. All the time.

Call it 99airlines.

Here’s the plan: if we can raise $150,000 today, we’ll use the opportunity of high-dollar Romney fundraisers to fly a plane overhead towing a message that reminds voters how he represents his corporate and 1% donors.

It’ll be fun—and it’s sure to grab the media’s attention. But most importantly, with Mitt leading in many polls, it’s a way to let millions of voters who are concerned about the economy know whose side Mitt is really on. Will you chip in?

Yes, I can contribute $5.

With 99airlines, we’ll transform Mitt Romney’s 1% fundraising tour into an airborne progressive message machine. If we hit our fundraising goal, we can secure enough plane banners so that at every Romney event, instead of looking at the podium, the reporters’ eyes and cameras will be pointing up, on the lookout for our banners.

According to Gallup, only 1/3 of voters under 29 are registered to vote and say they’ll definitely do so in November (far less than every other age group).³ That’s enough to swing the election. So with your support, we’ll also reach these voters by making 99airlines huge online—using Facebook and a Tumblr site, to post pictures of the best plane banners.

This summer, we’re pulling out all the stops to win the fight against the Romney super PAC ad assault. The 99airlines planes—and the messages they carry—will transform Romney fundraisers into an opportunity to remind voters what he really stands for—corporations and the 1%.

Can you contribute $5 to help launch 99airlines?

Thanks for all you do.

–Justin, Victoria, Emily, Garlin, and the rest of the team

Apparently, the Obama campaign, too,  is now organizing protests outside of Romney speaking engagements.

Via Gateway Pundit:

Mitt Romney visited an inner school in Philadelphia today to discuss his education agenda. The Obama Campaign met him at the school and protested his visit outside.
Mayor Michael Nutter led the protest complete with Obama 2012 signs.

The Romney protest was organized by the Obama Campaign.

The Washington Post reported:

When Mitt Romney came to an inner-city charter school here Thursday to promote his new education agenda, he received something of a history lecture about the persecution of blacks in America and the struggles of African American children to meet the academic achievements of their white counterparts.

Seeking to broaden his appeal heading into the general election, Romney was venturing for his first time in this campaign into an impoverished black neighborhood to hear the concerns of local educators and community leaders. But here in the streets of West Philadelphia, the emotion surrounding his contest with the nation’s first black president was raw, as dozens of neighborhood residents shouted, “Get out, Romney, get out!”…

…Outside, meanwhile, some brick row houses across from the school were boarded up. Police had cordoned off a full city block to protect Romney and his entourage. Residents, some of them organized by Obama’s campaign, stood on their porches and gathered at a sidewalk corner to shout angrily at Romney. Some held signs saying, “We are the 99%.” One man’s placard trumpeted an often-referenced Romney gaffe: “I am not concerned about the very poor.”

Yes, harassing Republicans is fun for leftists. But the goal is not to inform “millions of voters who are concerned about the economy to know whose side Mitt is really on.” People aren’t persuaded by airplane banners, or protests outside candidates’ speaking engagements. The idea to wear people down, demoralize them into thinking the opposition is much greater than it is, depressing Republican  turnout in the general election.

Don’t be fooled. Obama is floundering and his false narratives are flopping. He’s the guy who’s barely winning in one Democrat primary after another against mullet headed jailbirds or “uncommitted”. They are the ones who are demoralized as hell, as DaTechGuy likes to say- Mitt needs to ride right through them.

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Uncovered Ad Shows Obama Appeared At 1996 Event Hosted By Democratic Socialists of America

The vetting continues….

Via BuzzFeed:

 In this little-seen advertisement that ran in the Hyde Park Herald in 1996, Obama was listed on a panel sponsored by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), University of Chicago Democrats, and University of Chicago DSA. He also supported gay marriage back then.

Shocking, I know.

As recently as 2004, Obama was publicly singing the praises of outed Communist Congressman Danny Davis:

“He is one on the greatest congressmen in the country,” said President Obama. The reason, Obama told a Teamsters union rally in 2004, “is because he shares our values.”

At that time—just eight years ago—Congressman Danny Davis was continuing his efforts to help move then-State Senator Obama up the Chicago political food chain. And not that long ago—in fact, just two weeks—that Congressman Davis was honored by People’s World, a news website, at the Communist Party U.S.A.’s headquarters in Chicago for a lifetime of “inspiring leadership.”

Upon receiving the People’s World “Chris Hani & Rudy Lozano Social Justice Award,” Davis reflected, “Rudy Lozano and I worked closely together to try and build and a relationship between Latino and African-American activists and union types… we called ourselves ‘Progressives.’”

It’s all good though, because in case you haven’t heard – Obama’s the most fiscally moderate President evar!

Or not.

I mean, really…

RELATED:

Trevor Loudon: Sooooo BUSTED!: Communists Caught Altering History to Protect Obama

Weasel Zippers: Fidel Castro Niece In U.S. On Waiver Granted By Obama Admin Pushes “The Power Of Emancipation Through Socialism”…

And like a good comrade, she returned the favor and endorsed Obama earlier today.

Hat tip: Weasel Zippers

Obama Promise Kept: Energy Prices Soon to Skyrocket from $16 per Megawatt to up to $357 per Megawatt

They say most Obama statements come with an expiration date – and most of the time it’s true. But once in awhile, the mask slips a little, and Obama tells us what he really thinks:

According to Phil Kerpen at Fox News, the market-clearing price for new 2015 capacity will be eight times higher than the price for 2012, and those numbers are not computer models, projections or estimates.

These are the actual prices that electric distributors have agreed to pay for new capacity. The costs will be passed on to consumers at the retail level.

What will that do to most family budgets?

Last week the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported a shocking drop in power sector coal consumption in the first quarter of 2012. Coal-fired power plants are now generating just 36 percent of U.S. electricity, versus 44.6 percent just one year ago.

It’s the result of an unprecedented regulatory assault on coal that will leave us all much poorer.

Last week PJM Interconnection, the company that operates the electric grid for 13 states (Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia) held its 2015 capacity auction. These are the first real, market prices that take Obama’s most recent anti-coal regulations into account, and they prove that he is keeping his 2008 campaign promise to make electricity prices “necessarily skyrocket.”

The market-clearing price for new 2015 capacity – almost all natural gas – was $136 per megawatt. That’s eight times higher than the price for 2012, which was just $16 per megawatt. In the mid-Atlantic area covering New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and DC the new price is $167 per megawatt. For the northern Ohio territory served by FirstEnergy, the price is a shocking $357 per megawatt.

Why the massive price increases? Andy Ott from PJM stated the obvious: “Capacity prices were higher than last year’s because of retirements of existing coal-fired generation resulting largely from environmental regulations which go into effect in 2015.” Northern Ohio is suffering from more forced coal-plant retirements than the rest of the region, hence the even higher price.

Congress needs to step in and stop the EPA’s regulatory assault on the coal industry, or America as we know it will cease to be.

The Senate will have an opportunity to do something in the next couple of weeks.

The vote is on the Inhofe Resolution, S.J. Res 37, to overturn the so-called Utility MACT rule, which the EPA itself acknowledges is its most expensive rule ever.

This vote is protected from filibuster, and it will take just 51 votes to send a clear message to Obama that his War on Coal must end.

See www.WarOnCoal.com for information to contact your senators on this crucial issue.

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Boom! Dozens of Catholic institutions file suits over HHS mandate

Image via A Catholic View

As I said on the very first day the outrageous HHS contraception mandate came down,  it was a huge tactical error for the Obama administration to pick a fight with the Catholic church during an election year.

There was absolutely no way the church was going to lay down on such a critical life issue – in fact, they are going on the offense.

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air reports:

Dozens of Catholic institutions filed lawsuits today against the Department of Health and Human Services over its mandate and its narrow definition of religious practice:

Catholic archdioceses and institutions filed suit in federal district courts across the country Monday against the so-called contraception mandate, claiming their “fundamental rights hang in the balance.”

The plaintiffs include a host of schools and organizations, including the University of Notre Dame and the Archdiocese of New York. The lawsuits, though related, were filed individually.

The schools are objecting to the requirement from the federal health care overhaul that employers provide access to contraceptive care. The Obama administration several months back softened its position on the mandate, but some religious organizations complained the administration did not go far enough to ensure the rule would not compel them to violate their religious beliefs.

Kathryn Jean Lopez posts a brief statement from Timothy Cardinal Dolan, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and one of the chief critics of the HHS mandate:

We have tried negotiation with the Administration and legislation with the Congress – and we’ll keep at it – but there’s still no fix. Time is running out, and our valuable ministries and fundamental rights hang in the balance, so we have to resort to the courts now. Though the Conference is not a party to the lawsuits, we applaud this courageous action by so many individual dioceses, charities, hospitals and schools across the nation, in coordination with the law firm of Jones Day. It is also a compelling display of the unity of the Church in defense of religious liberty. It’s also a great show of the diversity of the Church’s ministries that serve the common good and that are jeopardized by the mandate – ministries to the poor, the sick, and the uneducated, to people of any faith or no faith at all.

The institutions filing lawsuits don’t just comprise a few ultraconservative institutions, either.  The University of Notre Dame hosted a speech by President Barack Obama in 2009, but today insists that Obama and his administration are attacking religious freedom in their complaint.

Read Captain Ed’s entire post for more links, plus Franciscan University president, Father Terence Henry’s video statement.

The Obama administration’s attempts at misdirection on the issue – turning it into a debate about women’s rights and what-not -  has ended up uniting the church against them,and insulting the intelligence of women with working brain cells.

Like Ed says,

This oppressive move may well cast Catholics off from the Democratic Party for a generation.  This will be a “come to Jesus” moment for many Catholics, and a wake-up call to the USCCB about the nature of government mandates in general.

Better late than never.

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Pic of the Day: Obama’s Sealed Records

Via Roger’s Rules: Who Is Barack Obama? The Question that Won’t Go Away:

So now Chris Matthews isn’t the only one experiencing a little thrill when he thinks about Barack (omit middle name) Obama. The recent revelation that from the early 1990s until the day before yesterday—or, to be more accurate, until Obama made his decision to run for president—a biographical pamphlet circulated by his literary agents described him as having been “born in Kenya” has been setting the world of Twitter atwitter.

What should we think about that? An agency spokesman who claims to have been responsible for the “born in Kenya” wheeze has publicly said that it was a mistake, a typographical error, a slip of the pen that just went “unchecked” for, um, sixteen-seventeen years. I can understand that. She meant to write “Hawaii” and wrote “Kenya” instead. Could happen to anyone. They look and sound enough alike, don’t they,  that no one noticed. You meant to write “there” and you wrote “their” instead. You meant to write “cup” and you wrote “floccinaucinihilipilification” instead. No one—no one at the literary agency, not the author himself—could be expected to notice. You understand that, right?

Well, maybe that is an unprofitable line of inquiry. However it happened, the take-away here is not that Obama was really born in Kenya.  As my friend Roger Simon points out in “The Mystery of the Kenyan Birth,” the noteworthy thing is that it is one more puff in the cloud of unknowing that surrounds the president.

Read it all, and check out the comments too.

The graphic is via the SuperPAC, ABO2012:

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Hear hear!

SEE ALSO:

Powerline: The long shadow of Barack Obama’s identity crisis

Doug Ross: Barack Obama’s biographical brief edited repeatedly over 17 years, but Kenyan birthplace changed just weeks after his presidential run announced

Lined by Theo Spark, and Doug Ross, Thanks!

Another Awesome American Crossroads Ad: Obama is so Great….

Oh man,  American Crossroads did it again, and this one is going to leave a mark.

SEE ALSO:

Bonfire of the Vanities: The American Narcissus’ Greatest Hits

Via: Marathon Pundit

Krauthammer: Romney Ad Linking Rev. Wright to Obama “Would Be Completely Legitimate”

As the left weakly tries to put Republicans on the defensive on the Rev. Wright controversy, Charles Krauthammer is having none of it.

On Fox’s Special Report, Thursday evening, Charles Krauthammer said that a Romney ad linking the controversial preacher, Jeremiah Wright to Barack Obama would be completely legitimate, but thought it was wise of him to avoid it. He then went after the MSM with gusto, decrying its “appalling double standard”:

“It’s okay for the Washington Post to run a 5000 word front page story on a prank that Romney at the age of 15 had comited but somehow it’s illegitiate, or low road, or whatever for people to bring up the fact that the adult Obama had a 20 year relationship with a racist, anti-American preacher whom he considered,  spoke about,   wrote about as his mentor or spiritual adviser…That is a double standard unlike any I have ever seen.”

Mitt can certainly keep his hands clean on this one and let others do the mud slinging.

SEE ALSO:

Yid With Lid: Did Mitt Romney Just Fall Into An Obama Trap ?

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Ht tip: American Glob

Vetting Obama: Born in Kenya? Roger L. Simon Interviews Deconstructing Obama Author, Jack Cashill (Video)

After offering a lengthy disclaimer that they are in no way, shape, or form icky {{{birthers}}}, Joel Pollak of Big Government drops this neutron bomb:

Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama’s then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.”

The booklet, which was distributed to “business colleagues” in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine other authors represented by Acton & Dystel.

It also promotes Obama’s anticipated first book, Journeys in Black and White–which Obama abandoned, later publishing Dreams from My Father instead.

Roger L. Simon of PJTV was thinking what I was thinking — what does Deconstructing Obama author, Jack Cashill think of this new information? Does it mean that the mainstream media will finally start vetting Obama?

SEE ALSO:

Jack Cashill in The American Thinker: The Hand of Clinton in Obama revelations?

The emergence of this brochure two weeks after David Maraniss’s revelation in Vanity Fair about Obama’s composite girl friends and one week after the debut of Ed Klein’s new book on Obama, The Amateur, suggests some media string-pulling beyond the powers of any conservative.

Call me a conspiracy theorist — a tag that has lost much of its sting in the last few hours — but I sense the hand of Clinton.  The Klein book, for instance, opens with an intimate meeting chez Clinton in which Bill encourages Hillary to do the seemingly unthinkable, namely challenge Obama in 2012.  Someone at that meeting was allowed to talk to Klein, probably encouraged to talk to Klein.  Indeed, the meeting may have been staged for Klein’s benefit.

UPDATE:

People are revisiting this old post from December 2008, (I’m not surprised):Kenyan Ambassador: Obama’s Birthplace “Already Well Known In Kenya”

Sheriff Joe weighs in:

We act on facts,” Arpaio told WND today. “We started the investigation back in August and utilized my Cold Case Posse to look into documents, the birth certificate and also the Selective Service forms. We seem to have much stonewalling going on.

“But I’m not going to back down. We are continuing to investigate what we feel are fraudulent government documents. We’re going to keep going, to prove once and for all whether they are genuine,” he said.

The unearthed publication “does put more smoke out there,” he said.

“We’ve gotten tons of information regarding this matter. This is just another little element,” he said.

UPDATE II:

Leave it to the British press to ask the obvious: How did the mainstream media miss this?

Look beyond the sordid details and the big story here is that this nugget wasn’t part of the wider discussion had back in 2008 about Obama’s background and credentials. And why not? The documents were easy to find – the one that showed that “born in Kenya” was still being used in 2007 was on the Internet.

UPDATE III:

3-2-1… right on cue…

Born in Kenya’: Obama’s Literary Agent Misidentified His Birthplace in 1991

I made a boo-boo…it was all me and definitely not Obama (he had nothing to do with it), says agency assistant.

“This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me–an agency assistant at the time,” Goderich wrote in an emailed statement to Yahoo News. “There was never any information given to us by Obama in any of his correspondence or other communications suggesting in any way that he was born in Kenya and not Hawaii. I hope you can communicate to your readers that this was a simple mistake and nothing more.”

There ya go –  mystery solved.

UPDATE IV:

Big Government responds: A ‘Fact Checking Error’–Again, and Again, and Again…

UPDATE V:

Ace of Spades HQ: Obama Drove Drunk, Too
Obama’s Agent Required, And Still Requires, Authors To Submit Their Own Bios:

Update: Obama’s Literary Agent Requested Authors Submit Their Own Bios. Breitbart.com is killing it.

 Submission guidelines at the Dystel & Goderich website (original emphasis): “[Y]ou should describe in two or three sentences—no more—what the book will be about. This is followed by another brief paragraph on why it is being written and then another on why you are qualified to write it….Finally, there should be a more formal narrative Bio of the author.”

How does Breitbart know this? The source of the article is an author who was also with Obama’s agency — he’s quoting from the materials the agency sent him.

 

All material she used in our proposals came directly from me and my writing partner. She edited our rough-draft proposals and gave us feedback, but the final versions were all ours. Our final versions, bio included, were then simply photo-copied, by us, and distributed to potential publishers. This was back in the pre-Google days, recall.I was asked to write the bio in the third person.

Jack Cashill: BHO’s ever-changing story:

Despite the claims made in the 1991 sales brochure produced by literary agent Jane Dystel, I do not believe Barack Obama was born in Kenya.

But I do believe that Obama said he was. The agency’s alleged fact-checking error is pure bull. I have written eight books myself, and I got to review every piece of promotional literature sent out about me or about my books. All authors get to do this.

The question that must be asked is why would Obama say he was born in Kenya if he was not. Well, from early on no doubt, Barack Obama learned that it paid to be exotic. Foreign birth gave him a romantic allure and also allowed him to distance himself from the bitter clingers of the country he barely deigned to inhabit.

“I chose my friends carefully,” he writes in “Dreams,” “The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.” These were the people with whom he felt comfortable.

 

Others around the web:

Gateway Pundit: WOW! Drudge Headline Shocker: OBAMA ‘BORN IN KENYA AND RAISED IN INDONESIA AND HAWAII’ (And VIDEO!)

AoSHQ: Oh, Dear: 1991 Promotional Material Circulated By Obama’s Literary Agency States, In His Bio, That Obama Was “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii”

Update: Obama’s Kenya-Born Bio Was Only Corrected in April 2007

The Powers That Be: Obama’s Former Literary Agents Were Birthers!

Atlas Shrugs: Obama’s Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: ‘Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii’

Rosslyn Smith, The American Thinker: Hard to believe Obama didn’t approve literary agent listing him as born in Kenya

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Bonfire of the Vanities: The American Narcissus’ Greatest Hits

photoshop via Free Canuckistan, by R. Martin and Richard Terrelly

Yesterday, conservative blogs and twitter had a lot of fun with the news that Obama has inserted himself into every  US President biography since Coolidge (barring only Ford) on the White House Website…

Yid With Lid had this to say:

Talk about delusions of grandeur,  the White House website contains biographies of each of the men who held the office of President.  Recently the Narcissist-in-Chief decided to embellish each of the biographies beginning with Calvin Coolidge. The embellishment? A mention of a milestone achieved by his most favorite person in the entire world—Barack Obama.

***

He really gets creative with JFK:

Did you know?

President John F. Kennedy famously suggested the American people: “Ask what you can do for your country.” In 1961, the Peace Corps was created, facilitating service among citizens working toward peace in developing countries. In 2011, President Obama celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps with a Presidential Proclamation.

Notice anything missing from the Kennedy quote? It began with “Ask not what your country can do for you…”  Of course “not asking what your country can do for you” is abhorrent to a progressive like Obama.

Not surprising is that Obama ignored the 20% across the board tax cuts originally proposed by Kennedy, signed by LBJ and resulting in prosperity.

***

The most galling one of all:

Did you know?

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. Technically the first sentence was correct. Reagan did call for a fairer tax code, but not by raising taxes on the rich but by simplifying the tax code and lowering tax rates.

With lower personal and corporate rates and another capital gains tax cut, small and entrepreneurial businesses will take off. Americans will have an open field to test their dreams and challenge their imaginations, and the next decade will become known as the age of opportunity. American industry will benefit, too, because the billions that are presently being squandered on the loopholes—things like jojoba bean shelters, racehorse write-offs, windmill farms, and luxury lunches for business executives-will be reinvested in the productive economy, where it will build new factories and businesses, create new jobs, and finance the new inventions that will keep America number one in the world market.

Read them all but and try to keep a straight face. The White House claims that its all OK because they didn’t change the bios, ignoring the fact that much of the added information was false. The larger issue is that with this president its all about him.  HE killed Bin Laden, the military is fighting for HIM.

For four years now, conservatives, and now I’m sure more than a few moderates and liberals have noticed this man’s unbelievable  egomania – narcissism to use the clinical term. There should no longer any doubt in anyone’s mind that this President suffers from delusions of grandeur.

I noticed it right away, myself – posting in May of 2008;The Narcissistic Qualities Of Barack Obama.

Let’s take a trip down Memory Lane and review example after example of the President’s narcissism as more and more political observers made the same diagnosis:

By July of 2008, Charles Krauthammer had written The Audacity Of Vanity, citing a few of the growing examples of candidate Obama’s egotism:

Americans are beginning to notice Obama’s elevated opinion of himself. There’s nothing new about narcissism in politics. Every senator looks in the mirror and sees a president. Nonetheless, has there ever been a presidential nominee with a wider gap between his estimation of himself and the sum total of his lifetime achievements?

Obama is a three-year senator without a single important legislative achievement to his name, a former Illinois state senator who voted “present” nearly 130 times. As president of the Harvard Law Review, as law professor and as legislator, has he ever produced a single notable piece of scholarship? Written a single memorable article? His most memorable work is a biography of his favorite subject: himself.

It is a subject upon which he can dilate effortlessly. In his victory speech upon winning the nomination, Obama declared it a great turning point in history — “generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment” — when, among other wonders, “the rise of the oceans began to slow.” As Hudson Institute economist Irwin Stelzer noted in his London Daily Telegraph column, “Moses made the waters recede, but he had help.” Obama apparently works alone.

Obama may think he’s King Canute, but the good king ordered the tides to halt precisely to refute sycophantic aides who suggested that he had such power. Obama has no such modesty.

After all, in the words of his own slogan, “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for,” which, translating the royal “we,” means: ” I am the one we’ve been waiting for.” Amazingly, he had a quasi-presidential seal with its own Latin inscription affixed to his lectern, until general ridicule — it was pointed out that he was not yet president — induced him to take it down.

Obama’s desire to give a campaign speech at Germany’s historic Brandenburg Gate, that summer raised eyebrows here and abroad:

The gate stood for 28 years behind the Berlin Wall in communist East Germany’s heavily fortified border zone. Probably the capital’s best-known monument, it was once a symbol of Germany’s Cold War division and now stands for its reunification.

Steg (spokesman for the chancellor), noted that the Brandenburg Gate has become “a place with a particular exclusivity, intensity and symbolism” in view of past speeches by sitting U.S. presidents and events such as a large rally in solidarity with the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

As a result, he said Merkel has voiced “great skepticism as to whether it is appropriate to bring an election campaign being fought not in Germany but in the United States to the Brandenburg Gate.”

Steg said that “no German (chancellor) candidate would think of using (Washington’s) National Mall or Red Square in Moscow for rallies, because it would be considered inappropriate.”

Angela Merkel reportedly found Obama’s plan to be “a bit odd”.

The Boston Globe, 7/23/08, in The Audacity Of Ego opined:

Barack Obama always was a larger-than-life candidate with a healthy ego. Now he’s turning into the A-Rod of politics. It’s all about him.

He’s giving his opponent something other than issues to attack him on: narcissism.

A convention hall isn’t good enough for the presumptive Democratic nominee. He plans to deliver his acceptance speech in the 75,000 seat stadium where the Denver Broncos play.

And as you probably remember, they were not content with a basic combination of video screens and slogans, Obama’s campaign produced a full-on neoclassical temple: “four imposing Greek columns and 10 sizable pilasters, all connected by a frieze and arranged in a gently curving arc. From the center of this colonnaded contraption extended a long peninsular walkway, lined with blue carpeting and capped by a circular stage and wedding-cake steps.“

Ace wrote at the time:

I used to think he was Captain Bullshit.

Now I think he is so dangerously narcissistic his ego just warps the world around him, like gravity, so that everything really does wind up revolving around him.

Remember the interior of Obama’s campaign plane? Let me remind you…

Via Newsbusters: Jake Tapper from ABC covered Obama on his overseas trip. Here were some of his thoughts:

Obama’s campaign has been pulling out all the stops, distributing these flyers in German to round up a huge crowd for his speech tonight, one the Obama campaign is billing at almost presidential. Even though he is not the president.

-to his hobnobbing with world leaders, to his military exercises in Israel and Iraq, everything about this trip is meticulously designed to make you comfortable with Obama as commander in chief. That started with his newly retrofitted plane. The American flag on the tail wing has been replaced by an enormous Obama “O.” And the slogan “change we can believe in” is on the sides. [Tapper is now inside the plane.] Inside, the plane has been redesigned to separate the senator and his staff from us lowly reporters. And this was the site of a big media mutiny the other day as Obama officials insisted they’d be able to brief us on background as anonymous officials. One of them said that’s what we did at the White House during the Clinton years. We pointed out they don’t work at the White House. Other flourishes, an Obama napkin holder after we refueled in Ireland.

On August 2, 2008, Kyle-Anne Shiver in the American Thinker, wrote an excellent piece that is especially poignant, today.

The salvation that Obama offers comes in the form of radically changing America to a utopian state, which he contends will fix our “broken souls.” That simply is not within the province of his abilities.

As Pope Benedict has so wisely and emphatically stated:

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes, not divine, but demonic.
– Truth and Tolerance; p. 116

Barack Obama stands front and center now, offering the age-old false promise that mankind can save itself through “collective redemption,” and simply because he employs Christian language and symbols, no genuine lovers of God will be fooled.

Hope in God?

Or hope in Obama?

I thank God every day for giving us Americans such a clear and easy choice. Perhaps He is simply using Barack Obama to separate a bit of chaff from the grain.

Alas, it was an easy choice for too few of us. Many lovers of God were fooled, and voted for “the One”, who just as we feared,  has been working feverishly to replace God with the State.

After Obama had been President for a year and a half, , Jonathan Last in the The Weekly Standard wrote: American Narcissus The vanity of Barack Obama:

Yet you don’t have to delve deep into armchair psychology to see how Obama’s vanity has shaped his presidency. In January 2009 he met with congressional leaders to discuss the stimulus package. The meeting was supposed to foster bipartisanship. Senator Jon Kyl questioned the plan’s mixture of spending and tax cuts. Obama’s response to him was, “I won.” A year later Obama held another meeting to foster bipartisanship for his health care reform plan. There was some technical back-and-forth about Republicans not having the chance to properly respond within the constraints of the format because President Obama had done some pontificating, as is his wont. Obama explained, “There was an imbalance on the opening statements because”—here he paused, self-satisfiedly—“I’m the president. And so I made, uh, I don’t count my time in terms of dividing it evenly.”There are lots of times when you get the sense that Obama views the powers of the presidency as little more than a shadow of his own person. When he journeyed to Copenhagen in October 2009 to pitch Chicago’s bid for the Olympics, his speech to the IOC was about—you guessed it: “Nearly one year ago, on a clear November night,” he told the committee, “people from every corner of the world gathered in the city of Chicago or in front of their televisions to watch the results of .  .  . ” and away he went. A short while later he was back in Copenhagen for the climate change summit. When things looked darkest, he personally commandeered the meeting to broker a “deal.” Which turned out to be worthless. In January 2010, Obama met with nervous Democratic congressmen to assure them that he wasn’t driving the party off a cliff. Confronted with worries that 2010 could be a worse off-year election than 1994, Obama explained to the professional politicians, “Well, the big difference here and in ’94 was you’ve got me.”In the midst of the BP oil spill last summer, Obama explained, “My job right now is just to make sure that everybody in the Gulf understands this is what I wake up to in the morning and this is what I go to bed at night thinking about: the spill.” Read that again: The president thinks that the job of the president is to make certain the citizens correctly understand what’s on the president’s mind.

Obama’s vanity is even more jarring when paraded in the foreign arena. In April, Poland suffered a national tragedy when its president, first lady, and a good portion of the government were killed in a plane crash. Obama decided not to go to the funeral. He played golf instead. Though maybe it’s best that he didn’t make the trip. When he journeyed to Great Britain to meet with the queen he gave her an amazing gift: an iPod loaded with recordings of his speeches and pictures from his inauguration.

On November 9, 2009, Europe celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was kind of a big deal. They may not mention the Cold War in schools much these days, but it pitted the Western liberal order against a totalitarian ideology in a global struggle. In this the United States was the guarantor of liberty and peace for the West; had we faltered, no corner of the world would have been safe from Soviet domination.

President Obama has a somewhat different reading. He explains: “The Cold War reached a conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years, and because the people of Russia and Eastern Europe stood up and decided that its end would be peaceful.” Pretty magnanimous of the Soviets to let the long twilight struggle end peacefully like that, especially after all we did to provoke them.

So Obama doesn’t know much about the Cold War. Which is probably why he didn’t think the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall was all that important. When the leaders of Europe got together to commemorate it, he decided not to go to that, either. But he did find time to record a video message, which he graciously allowed the Europeans to air during the ceremony.

I always believed that at some point, Obama would want to downplay the hero worship and cult-of personality nonsense that surrounded him -  if not during the 2008 campaign – at least once he became President. It was frankly getting embarrassing. I  mean – The Obama Chia Head was just so wrong…

But no – although the fervor for Obama merchandise had died down by mid 2009,  Obama flags were flown at his inauguration and have been appearing ever since, (causing neighborhood squabbles), and upsetting veterans, without a peep of discouragement from the Commander in Chief.

In May, 2011, right after he posted a copy of his birth certificate online, the Obama Campaign began Hawking “Made in the USA” Mugs and Tee Shirts.

A visit to his own Campaign website gift shop, today, is to experience deja-vu of all the most embarrassing  examples of 2008′s overwrought Obamamania. Who wants an Obama spatula? Cutting board? How about an Obama dog bowl (In retrospect, a chilling photo™).

It doesn’t seem to matter how much he is ridiculed –they just keep hitting us with more of it – like the President shooting hoops with Obama Basketballs…just last month.

It’s no secret that Obama has been seeking a return to the  “cool” of his 2008 campaign  -

“I know that it’s not going to be exactly the same as when I was young and vibrant and new,” he said at a fundraiser last year. “And there was — posters everywhere, hope. The logo was really fresh. And let’s face it, it was cool to support me back then. At cocktail parties, you could sort of say, ‘Yeah, this Obama guy, you haven’t heard of him? Let me tell you about him.’”

What’s creepy to increasing numbers of us, (the logo, the posters, the conceits, the Obama merchandise, the Obama inserting himself into the biographies of every US President since Coolidge) is considered cool by President Narcissus.

Roger Simon thinks Obama may well be imploding:

It is becoming okay not to like Barack Obama.

The Teflon cloak of being a cool, hip black guy, our first African-American president, is losing its power. That cloak of supposed post-racialism – not a “post-boomer leadership style,” whatever that may be – is what protected Obama. No one, not me, not David Brooks, wanted to be accused of racism. America desperately wanted to like Obama.

But they can’t. We can’t. And not just because the economy is brutal.

In hard times you get to see the individual up close, what he is made of. Roosevelt was one thing, Obama something completely different.

Can you imagine having a “fireside chat” with Barack Obama? Brrr…. The incumbent is a petulant, defensive narcissist, not someone with the humanity, humility or the experience to lead us out of dark days. Most people know this. More and more they are allowing themselves to admit it. Soon this may be a deluge.

Issa: Contempt Citation Against Holder Will “Absolutely” Come Before Election (Video)

Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) appeared on Greta Van Susteren’s Show, Monday night, to give an  update on the investigation of the Obama Justice Department’s Operation Fast and Furious and on holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of congress.

He says that the Committee wants to make sure they’ve “dotted every i and crossed every t”, and they’re still trying to “make the case across the aisle”, which I suspect is at Boehner’s beckoning.

When Greta pressed him for an idea of when a contempt citation might come, he told her it would “absolutely” come before the election.

As a further timeline, Issa referenced the Brian A. Terry Memorial Act which passed  unanimously in the Senate, last week. It will rename Brian Terry’s  former border patrol station in Naco after the slain agent. Issa assured Greta that the contempt citation will come by the time he meets with the Terry family —- when? Where? That part somehow got lost. Greta didn’t want to talk about the Brian Terry Memorial Act, she wanted to talk about the Contempt citation – but I think Issa was trying to tell her something, there.

By the way -mum’s the word from the President and Attorney General, who have made no public comments about the Brian A. Terry Memorial Act which passed both houses of Congress unanimously.

Representatives for the White House didn’t answer The Daily Caller’s requests for comment about the act that passed both chambers of Congress with bipartisan support. Attorney General Eric Holder spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler has also not responded to requests for comment on the act.

It’s also unclear whether Obama will do a public signing ceremony for the act, assuming he chooses to sign it. White House spokesman Eric Schultz didn’t answer when The Daily Caller asked him if Obama had invited the Terry family to Washington to do a public signing event.

As David Codrea writes in the Gun Rights Examiner, this creates an interesting dilemma for the President, ‘particularly because of Terry’s mother calling his Attorney General Eric Holder a “coward” and a “joke,” and especially since the slain agent’s parents filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department and ATF that “seeks $25 million dollars in compensation for Terry’s death.”’

Will the White House be able to use the lawsuit as an excuse for the President to quietly sign the bill without comment, attendees, ceremony? Or if there is one, will they have a “no cameras/microphones” rule, and offer up words like “to protect the family’s dignity” and “the solemnity of the occasion” to ensure that no politically embarrassing footage gets created?

Despite the Obama administration’s silence on the Terry Memorial Act, congressional Democrats and Republicans supported it 100% — another bad omen for Holder who hopes his political allies will continue to carry the administration’s water  in the Fast and Furious investigation.

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Audio: Amateur Author Ed Klein: Clinton and Obama Have “nothing but Mutual Contempt for Each Other”

Hannity’s radio show today featured some interesting dish from former NYTs Magazine Editor, Ed Klein, the author of the explosive new book about Obama; The Amateur.

The book gets its title from the words Bill Clinton uttered when he was  trying to encourage Hillary to take on Obama in the Democratic primary of 2012:

Obama doesn’t know how to be president. He doesn’t know how the world works. He’s incompetent. He’s…he’s…Barack Obama’s an amateur.

I’ve always suspected that Bill Clinton despised Obama, so I’m always aghast when I see  him give interviews propping him up, or even starring in campaign ads for him. It makes them look like BFFs, and I wonder what the hell is going on. Why would you do that for someone you hate?  Klein has a very simple answer for that.

Clinton says there is no loyalty in politics, but he’s been pretty loyal to Obama this year, for someone who hates him.

Hat tip: Smitty, of the Other McCain, who was listening to Hannity in the car.

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Certifiable: Obama Proposes Another Multibillion-Dollar Stimulus Plan…

One definition of insanity is making the same mistake over and over again, but expecting different results.

cer·ti·fi·a·ble: Officially recognized as needing treatment for a mental disorder.

Yep, that’s our President, all right.

I know I don’t have to tell you that the last stimulus was not exactly a smashing success.

In fact, according to the Weekly standard,  not only is SCOAMF avoiding mentioning that Stimulus in formal speeches, “it has now been five months since the administration last put out a report card on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA—aka the “stimulus”), which the act itself requires the administration to do.”

In fact, the administration is now three economic quarters behind schedule in chronicling the effects of Obama’s second-most prominent piece of legislation—again, in defiance of the very law it’s supposed to be reviewing. (Those who live to impose regulations on others aren’t always as eager to obey regulations themselves.)

Why hesitate to release these reports? The answer, as you may have guessed, is that there’s not much to brag about.

So, yeah – of course, “we can’t wait“ to have another go-around. Forward!!!11!

Via Weasel Zippers:

(Washington Times) — Putting pressure on Congress to approve parts of his latest economic stimulus plan, President Obama urged Americans Saturday to push lawmakers to approve his multibillion-dollar “to-do list” for creating jobs.

“Each of the ideas on this list will help create jobs and build a stronger economy right now,” Mr. Obama said in his weekly address. “Let’s push Congress to do the right thing. Let’s keep moving this country forward together.”

The president’s list includes an expanded program to help homeowners refinance their mortgages, a proposal to give small businesses tax breaks for hiring more workers, a program that would help veterans find jobs, and an extension of tax credits for clean-energy companies.

Is Obama really certifiably insane, or is he crazy like a fox? I think most of you know the answer…

I’ve been muttering under my breath for three years, now that this man and his enablers are trying to destroy the US economy. There’s no other explanation for what is going on – - -

RS MCcain: The Dots Get Connected: Soros Ally Teaches Democrats Cloward-Piven?:

Yesterday, I linked Joel Gerhke’s Examiner story in a post titled “Great: Corporate America Now Paying Democrats to Call Americans Racist,” which mentioned that the 2010 annual report for Maya Wiley’s Center for Social Inclusion (PDF, see Page 13)“lists many of the usual suspects, including George Soros’s Open Society Institute and the Soros-funded Tides Foundation.”

Operating in “file-and-forget” mode, I moved on to other stories until last night, when I was having fun on Twitter with the #ObamaBedtimeStories meme, and one of my jokes got re-Tweeted by my friend, investigative reporter Matthew Vadum. Because Matthew is perhaps the nation’s leading expert on the ACORN/SEIU/Soros connection, it occurred to me he might be able to get some data on the Soros connection to what Gehrke had reported. So I sent him a couple of Tweets about it. By the time I got up about 7 a.m. today, Vadum had sent me a spreadsheet listing foundation contributions to Wiley’s outfit. Quickly adding up the numbers and doing additional research online, within two-and-a-half hours I’d filed this brief report for The American Spectator:

A non-profit organization that provided training last week to House Democrats, portraying Republican opponents as racially motivated, has received significant funding from foundations linked to controversial left-wing multibillionaire George Soros.
Soros’s Open Society Institute has given $75,000 to the Center for Social Inclusion, which has also received more than $850,000 from the Soros-connectedTides Foundation/Tides Center since 2005, according to documents obtained by The American Spectator.
In a training session for House Democrats and their congressional staffers last week, Center for Social Inclusion founder and president Maya Wiley described “conservative messages” as being “racially coded,” and suggested that Democrats “raise racial disparities” in public policy discussions, Joel Gerhke of the Washington Examiner reported. . . .
The Soros-Wiley connection was noted by Matthew Vadum of the Capital Research Center. Vadum, an investigative reporter and American Spectatorcontributor, is author of the widely-praised recent book Subversion, Inc., an exhaustive exposé of ACORN. Wiley’s background also drew attention from Michelle Horstman of PJ Media, who noted that Maya Wiley is the daughter of 1960s radical George Wiley, founder of the National Welfare Rights Organization.

Please read the whole thing. Connecting the dots to the National Welfare Rights Organization links the Center for Social Inclusion to the “Cloward-Piven Strategy,” a 1960s left-wing effort to foment economic crisis and social revolution.

And notice how Obama beckons “Americans” (read occupiers, MoveOn, etc ) to ‘push lawmakers to approve his multibillion-dollar “to-do list” for creating jobs.’

That would be his moonbat signal to every left-wing group out there to mobilize and ramp up their class warfare efforts against Republicans. A supporting cast of Bolsheviks include  Michael Moore, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, and Frances Fox Piven herself, offering advice and  inspiration to their neocom charges from the sidelines.

On the race war front it would seem that Obama’s minions are dead -set on using the already maxed out race card as a political strategy to get him elected, again.

While Maya Wiley’s examples of white racism were ludicrous, William Bigelow of Big Government noted  that there was a tactical reason for her talk:

Then, in typically Obama-like cynical fashion, she explained how to lure white voters to her side even while crying racism: “Don’t make the mistake of telling them they’re in the problem. It’s emotional connection, not rational connection that we need … Explain how each racial group is affected (recognize the unique pain of each group), but start with people who are White … then raise racial disparities.”  The line she offered to bait whites into joining her own inherently racist cause? “Homeownership is the American Dream. It hurts the same to lose your home if you’re White, Asian, Latino or Black.”

The idea, of course is to guilt gullible white voters into voting for Obama, again.

Earlier this year, I was tracking the Democrats’ obvious and brazen applications of the race card. You see, I had naively  thought that they would keep it at a manageable pace, but good God, no – when the Trayvon Martin story hit, their foul racial politics really hit the fan and I threw up my hands and gave up – I would have been spending all day tracking their racialist idiocy.

But you get the idea, right? Their disgraceful divide and conquer racialist strategy is both desperate, and dangerous.  But if it leads to race riots later on this year, so much the better – progs  thrive on chaos.

They never let a crisis go to waste, doncha know.

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Your Sunday Rap: The Obama Lies Song

You know what? I’m not a rap fan. AT ALL. Just ask my kids. The minute it comes on the radio, I reach for the dial. I have no tolerance for it, whatsoever.

But I’m absolutely grooving to this:

If you’re not already subscribing to Whateverhappentocomm’s YouTube channel, you’re missing out. He does several video commentaries a day, and it’s as he says; pure, unadulterated common sense with heaping helpings of humor.

He also has a website:Whatever Happen To COMMON SENSE

He’s CommonSense39 on Twitter.

More and people are on to our fraudulent SCOAMF every day.

It’s just a matter of time before PJTV or some other conservative operation picks this guy up.

Piling On:

The Obama Golf Counter Website.

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According to New Book, Obama Camp Tried To Bribe Rev. Wright With $150,000 To Shut-up Until After 2008 Election

A new book, “The Amateur,” by bestselling author, Edward Klein reveals some slimy residue from the 2008 Obama campaign that should surprise no one.

White House spokesbully,  Eric Schultz accused Klein of making it up to sell more copies — in other words, it’s 100%  true because every day is opposite day in President FUBAR’s White House. It certainly rings true.

Via The Blaze:

The New York Post on Sunday published a conversation between Wright and Klein, the latest tidbit to come from the book. In it, Wright said once his fiery sermons surfaced during the 2008 campaign, he received an email asking him not to preach until after November:

“Who sent the e-mail?” I asked Wright.

“It was from one of Barack’s closest friends.”

“He offered you money?”

“Not directly,” Wright said. “He sent the offer to one of the members of the church, who sent it to me.”

“How much money did he offer you?”

“One hundred and fifty thousand dollars,” Wright said.

Wright said he was also visited by then-Senator Obama himself, who wanted to meet in secret.

“And one of the first things Barack said was, ‘I really wish you wouldn’t do any more public speaking until after the November election.’ He knew I had some speaking engagements lined up, and he said, ‘I wish you wouldn’t speak. It’s gonna hurt the campaign if you do that.’

“And what did you say?” I asked. “I said, ‘I don’t see it that way. And anyway, how am I supposed to support my family?’ And he said, ‘Well, I wish you wouldn’t speak in public. The press is gonna eat you alive.’

Klein has also written about the Kennedys and Hillary Clinton.

His journalistic credentials via Wikipedia are impressive:

Klein is a former foreign editor of Newsweek and former editor in chief of The New York Times Magazine who frequently contributes to Vanity Fair and Parade.  He has a weekly column in Parade called “Personality Parade” under the pseudonym “Walter Scott”. Many of his books have been on The New York Times Bestseller list.

He was also the principal for the Business Communications School at The Euclid High School Complex.

Klein attended Colgate University, graduated from Columbia University School of General Studies, and received an MS degree from the Columbia University school of journalism. He is the father of two grown children, Karen (former manager of The Four Seasons restaurant in New York City), and Alec (a reporter for The Wall Street Journal). He has been divorced twice, and is currently married to Dolores Barrett, a public relations executive.^[1]

UPDATE!:

Gateway Pundit notes that Wright took a trip to Ghana before the 2008 election.

GhanaWeb, Thursday, 14 August 2008: Obama’s Rev Wright moves to GHANA

MORE excerpts from The Amateur via Human Events: President Obama’s former doctor claimsthat the president lacks passion, feeling and humanity:

In an exclusive preview of The Amateur by Human Events, Obama’s longtime physician reveals the lack of humanity in Obama’s character and carelessness with which he enacted the entirely politicized health insurance reform, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often called ObamaCare.

Scheiner said that he believes the president miscalculated politically and that the health reform is ultimately doomed to fail. Worse, Scheiner doubts the character of a man who holds the highest and most influential office in America: “I think there is too much of the University of Chicago in him. By which I mean he’s academic, lacks passion and feeling, and doesn’t have the sense of humanity that I expected.”

And

JWF: Catfight! How Moochelle and Oprah Grew To Hate Each Other:

I know, it’s hard to believe how this angry, petulant Michelle Obama would be jealous of anyone, isn’t it?

It soon became apparent that something had gone wrong between Oprah and the new administration — or, more precisely, between Oprah and Michelle Obama.

The problem seemed to originate from two of Michelle’s advisers, Valerie Jarrett and Desirée Rogers, the new White House social secretary. They resented Oprah’s meddling in their bailiwick. Among other things, Oprah had a plan to redecorate the Lincoln bedroom. She also had ideas about how Michelle could put more zing into White House social events.

Etc….

Sounds like an awesome book!