{"id":26206,"date":"2014-07-15T15:44:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T19:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=26206"},"modified":"2014-07-15T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T19:45:07","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-july-14th-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=26206","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, July 14th, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Monday, July 14th, 2014…and here’s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n

First up,\u00a0<\/strong>Commentary Magazine<\/em>‘s Peter Wehner weaves a compelling tale of…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s Psychological Tapestry<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

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“…Early on with Mr. Obama, I assumed his chronic finger pointing was simply cynical. It may be that in part, but it seems to me to be more than that. It\u2019s one thread in a larger psychological tapestry.<\/p>\n

The president is a man who has a grandiose sense of himself, a very strong sense of entitlement, and is, even for a politician, unusually prickly and self-pitying.<\/strong><\/span> He is blind to the damage he\u2019s doing and the failures he\u2019s amassed. His self-conception\u2013pragmatic, empirical, non-ideological, self-reflective, willing to listen to and work with others, intellectually honest, competent at governing\u2013is at odds with reality.<\/strong><\/span> Mr. Obama is constantly projecting his own weaknesses onto his political opponents. There are never any honest differences with Obama<\/em><\/span>; he is always<\/span> <\/em>impugning the motives of his critics\u2013they put \u201cparty ahead of country\u201d\u2013while presenting his own motives as being as pure as the new-driven snow.<\/strong><\/span> And whatever goes wrong on his watch is always the result of someone or something else. There\u2019s a kind of impressive consistency to Obama\u2019s blame game. It never rests, and it applies to every conceivable circumstance.<\/p>\n

Mr. Obama also has the habit of increasing his mockery of his political opponents as his own ineptness is exposed. Which explains why so often these days Obama\u2019s public remarks are the equivalent of playground taunts<\/em><\/span>…<\/span><\/strong><\/span>“<\/p>\n

And as a fish rots from the head, this President’s psychological defects permeate his entire Administration; case in point:<\/strong><\/p>\n