Obama is a self-serving tool

Posted on February 7, 2010

OK, so all of us already know that Obama quite possibly could be the most arrogant, narcissistic president this country has ever had. Last night, at the DNC fundraiser in Washington, Obama decided the time was right to eulogize one of the people who worked on his campaign, a woman who died of breast cancer. Obama couldn’t take the time to remember what her name was, but he did make sure to point out that she wanted to be buried in an Obama t-shirt.

I got a letter — I got a note today from one of my staff — they forwarded it to me — from a woman in St. Louis who had been part of our campaign, very active, who had passed away from breast cancer. She didn’t have insurance. She couldn’t afford it, so she had put off having the kind of exams that she needed. And she had fought a tough battle for four years. All through the campaign she was fighting it, but finally she succumbed to it. And she insisted she’s going to be buried in an Obama t-shirt.

Even the people in attendance were taken aback — you can tell by the fact that they laughed. Obama, meanwhile, was dead serious. He actually seemed insulted by the laughter! Watch the expression on his face as people start laughing, you’ll see what I mean. (Skip ahead to about 8:25 to see the clip.)

So, he couldn’t even take the time to ask his staffers to find out what the woman’s name was, but he can exploit her life for health care. Heck, why not, they did it for Teddy Kennedy. But at least Kennedy was a politician and a public figure. This is just some poor, nameless woman. I even question the bit about the Obama t-shirt. I wonder if that’s actually true, or if Obama just exaggerated to make the story all about him. I guess there’s no way of knowing for sure. The end point is still the same regardless, though.

Obama is a self-serving tool. He’s the guy who is that annoying acquaintance, the one you really hate but put up with for whatever reason — he’s a friend of a friend, he works with you, whatever. And the annoying acquaintance is that guy, the one that always has to make everything about him, and he’s a one-upper, too. You say you went skiing in Colorado, he’ll tell you that his parents own a ski lodge there. You say that you’re going to get a bonus, he’ll tell you that he’s getting a promotion and a pay raise. If you talk about, say, Haiti, he always will find a way to make it about him — he has a friend who was doing missionary work there, or he knows someone who is Haitian. It doesn’t matter the circumstances, but the situation is always twisted around to make it all about him. (I know you all know exactly which person I’m talking about.) It’s annoying enough when this is that acquaintance you have to suck it up around. When this guy has become our president, it ceases to be just annoying. It’s greatly worrying.

And here’s one more question; if this woman worked on his campaign staff, why wasn’t health insurance made available for her? At the very least, if Obama cares so much about all the Americans supposedly dying from a lack of health insurance, why didn’t he get it for her once it became known she had cancer? With Obama, it’s all about rights for me but not for thee.

Cross-posted from Cassy’s blog. Stop by for more original commentary or follow her on Twitter!

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