NY Times - MoDo - "Who Are You Calling a Narcissist, Rush?" - Praises Obama

[TomCADem]

I had to do a double take since Maureen Dowd almost appears to praise President Obama in this opinion. I am surprised, because she always seems to confuse certitude with leadership.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/opinion/04dowd.html

Asked about fellow conservative George Will’s contention that the United States should get out of Afghanistan, Limbaugh said, “I don’t have the benefit of knowledge that George Will has, so I trust the experts, and to me they’re the people in the U.S. military.”

Even a chickenhawk like Rush should remember how well that worked in Vietnam, or in the early years of Iraq. The founding fathers designated a civilian as commander in chief for a reason.

Military brass have told the White House that this is the first time in eight years that they have gotten the attention and resources that they’ve needed in Afghanistan.

If W. had gone to Dover in the middle of the night to salute the war dead, Limbaugh and Liz Cheney would have been gushing about his patriotism.

But since it’s Obama who at last showed up there to see the brutal cost of war, they simply have to dismiss the moving moment as a publicity stunt.

Years ago, when I dubbed Dubya “The Boy Emperor,” Limbaugh spewed a stream of personal invective about me that embarrassed even my mother, a Limbaugh fan.

But now Limbaugh calls Obama the “man-child president.”

The 48-year-old Obama is skinny and getting skinnier, but there’s nothing childish about him. He more or less raised himself and came to terms with his Oedipal demons on his own, and he radiates a hard-won maturity.

W., on the other hand, was like a kid who knew that Daddy’s friends would take care of him; he was always running off to the gym or going biking, leaving the governing to his regents, Cheney and Rummy, or incompetents like Brownie.

At our long-ago dinner, Limbaugh credited his success with being “one-dimensional.” “I’m totally concerned with me,” he said. And that was way before he got a contract for $400 million, so we can only imagine how one-dimensional he is now.

But on Sunday, he ripped the president for having “an out-of-this-world ego,” for being “very narcissistic,” “immature, inexperienced, in over his head.” (Isn’t immaturity scoring OxyContin from your maid?)

It gives new meaning to pot, kettle and black.

[Cha]

1. Wow..modo's mum is a limpbaugh fan

who was made to blush by rush's invective on her daughter! That's some mascochist of a mom, there.

So the dittoheads who listen to limp are as all about themselves as he is.

[Caitranne]

2. Good. But didn't she paint Al Gore as a narcissit?

December 3, 1997:

I feel pretty, oh, so pretty,

I feel pretty and witty and not gay,

[Cha]

3. Yes, she can be an

asshole but I don't hold it against someone if I don't agree with them in the past.

[Caitranne]

4. We're different I guess. I will always hold it against her

The Iraq war sucked you know.