The Arrogance of Barack Obama

It is getting to the point where I am no longer surprised nor amazed at the seemingly endless stream of biased information and downright misleading statements that come out of Washington. However, I have to admit that I had to do a double take last Thursday morning when Barack Obama, at the Health Care Summit, stopped the show with the profound announcement: “I am the President!”
Now, the last time I checked every single person in the room KNEW that he was the president! Half of them voted for him and the other half knew exactly why they voted against him. Then, why in the world would he have to remind everyone of exactly who he was? Very simple…pride and arrogance. Let not anyone in the room forget that I am the Grand High Poobah!
I don’t think I have ever seen a president with as much arrogance and disdain for anyone who dares think differently than he does than Barack Obama. But then, never in his public life has he ever been faced with dissent. He is so inexperienced, and has been so surrounded throughout his political life with a cadre of “yes men” and drooling sycophants that he has come to actually believe that he knows what he is talking about.
Pride…by definition…”inordinate self-esteem.” Boy, that sums it up!
To borrow an expression from Bill O’Reilly, I have never heard so much bloviating in my life. He had to comment on everything, like he was the Oracle from on high that always had to set everyone straight, particularly anyone who did not agree with his position. Arrogant…prideful…and…wrong! So out of touch with the American people.
This is explainable, though, as he continues to surround with “advice givers” who, themselves, lost touch with America years ago. This is a group of political hitmen who know no other way of governing except through fear and intimidation…just like they learned and practiced in Chicago.
One of these days they are going to wake up and realize that you can’t govern the freedom loving and honest people of this wonderful country with tactics designed to control, terrorize and intimidate. Or, maybe they won’t and in three years they will all sit around when they are back in Chicago unemployed trying to figure out just what went wrong.
I remind our president of the words of the wisest man who ever lived, King Solomon, who said in Proverbs 16:18 “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.”