As most of my readers i.e. two of the three, know, sometime around October of 2008 I was watching then candidate Barack Obama give a speech on a train. He seemed so incredibly petulant and condescending that I texted three people with the words "We are so f**cked", mostly because I was certain that he was going to win. It seems every day since then, the President has done nothing but reinforce my impression of him as a spoiled grown up with an overblown sense of entitlement.
Today, the President was quoted as telling aides to "Plug the damn hole" and has been described as showing his increasing frustration. By itself, this wouldn't really be worthy of note. However, the President took the time to meet with Republicans yesterday who, it seems, he expected to kiss the ground he walked on. When Republicans did what opposing parties do, he got testy. Senator Pat Roberts (R. Kan.) said he needed to take a valium and was pretty thin skinned (in related news, Vegas is expected to post odds on how long it will take for someone to try to make that a racist statement (Obama is expected to tell the country not to go to Vegas to take the bet)).
Again, taken in isolation, these things aren't all that worthy of note, but in the context of a man who snaps at reporters and has basically stopped taking questions (he ironically signed the Freedom of the Press Act and refused to take questions afterward last week.)
I'm curious to see if at some point he will actually just lose his cool. I suspect he is a very different person than the calm, cool, collected man the media portrays him to be.
I do believe you are right on this.
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