I wonder, though, if he’s right on his assertion that “Americans” (used in a general sense) are catching on to the fact that the guy running for president on the Democrat side has an ego the size of Mt. Rushmore.

I think he is. Most Americans don’t pay close attention until Fall, but stuff seeps through. I work at a very liberal institution (I’m their token Rightie. ), and even co-workers who don’t follow politics have clued in to the “Obama’s ego” theme. One just shook her head over the whole presidential seal mess, and she’s someone who does not follow politics.

In bits and pieces over the summer, an image will be built of Obama in the average voter’s mind, and it won’t be flattering.

Anyway, if a liberal black columnist can see the empty suit, I expect others have as well. Only time will tell.

Priceless.

Was Krauthammer the guy who wrote part of George Bush’s inaugaral speech

Do you have a clue what “inaugural” means? Or are you just adept at missing the point?

Krauthammer’s talking about the candidate’s opinion of himself – not the columnist’s opinion of a speech. There’s a huge difference between the first speech of an elected president (that’s what an “inaugural address” is, by the way) and a campaign speech by a community agitator and freshman senator with no accomplishments and an inflated ego.

Krauthammer’s right. If Obama wants a platform reserved for people of accomplishment and courage, let him demonstrate both. To date, he’s shown neither.

I wonder, though, if he’s right on his assertion that “Americans” (used in a general sense) are catching on to the fact that the guy running for president on the Democrat side has an ego the size of Mt. Rushmore.

I doubt it. Anyway, it doesn’t matter all that much. You have to have some kind of ego to run for president, and frankly–in line with some of the comments about Joe Biden–I think that Obama would do no better than place if he ran in an ego race with the man from Delaware.

Conservative poljunkies know it, but is the average voter paying attention to more than just the glowing soundbites uttered by the mainstream news mediots about the candidate they’ve made it perfectly clear that they support?

Probably not. I find this whole thing rather astonishing. If the very modern models of the modern major mediots ever before rushed to cover an overseas trip–a trip that can only be described as a campaign trip–by the, I say, I say suhs, presumptive party nominee, let alone the official one, I am unaware of it.

I’m not getting the sense that they are.

Nor do I. And in closing I invite you all to imagine this scene: James Cameron, or Gordon Brown, during the next British election, campaigning at the Statue of Liberty (or for that matter the Brandenburg Gate).

“All for our vantage. Then, in God’s name, march:
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings:
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.”

–Shakespeare, Richard III, act 5, scene 2
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Was Krauthammer the guy who wrote part of George Bush’s inaugaral speech, and then after it was read declared it “revoloutionary”.

Hello, pot. Meet kettle. I think you’ll find a few things in common.