Trained as a psychiatrist, Charles Krauthammer brings unique insight to his perception of Obama

"It’s fine to recognize the achievements
of others and be non-chauvinistic about one’s country. But Obama’s
modesty is curiously selective. When it comes to himself, modesty is in
short supply.

It began with the almost comical self-inflation
of his presidential campaign, from the still inexplicable mass rally in
Berlin in front of a Prussian victory column to the Greek columns
framing him at the Democratic convention. And it carried into his
presidency, from his posture of philosopher-king adjudicating between
America’s sins and the world’s to his speeches marked by a spectacularly
promiscuous use of the first-person pronoun “I.”

Notice, too,
how Obama habitually refers to cabinet members and other high-level
government officials as “my” — “my secretary of homeland security,” “my
national security team,” “my ambassador.” The more normal — and
respectful — usage is to say “the,” as in “the secretary of state.”
These are, after all, public officials sworn to serve the nation and
protect the Constitution — not just the man who appointed them.


It’s a stylistic detail, but quite revealing of Obama’s exalted view of
himself. Not surprising, perhaps, in a man whose major achievement
before acceding to the presidency was writing two biographies — both
about himself."

Worth reading all of it here.