American Narcissus

This is one of the most insightful and inadvertently amusing essays written on our American President, the Narcissus. The whole thing is so right on that it's like scratching an itch to read it. The tragedy is that this self- absorbed man has so much influence over our lives. Weekly Standard:

In case you’re keeping score at home, there was some confusion as to what book young Obama was writing. His publisher thought he was writing about race relations. His employer thought he was writing about voting rights law. But Obama seems to have never seriously considered either subject. Instead, he decided that his subject would be himself. The 32-year-old was writing a memoir.