Posted by
Andrews on Friday, August 08, 2008 2:00:26 PM
I figured it out! When Obama has a chair stenciled "President" or creates his own presidential seal, or tries to give management advice to the prime minister of England, everyone accuses him of arrogance. And that may be it. But I think I have an alternate theory, and it makes complete sense.
Obama has to realize he is both incredibly inexperienced and far too left wing for the taste of a majority of Americans. Add tot hat the twenty years he spent in a racist congregation, his shady business dealings with even more shady Razko and his close ties to domestic terrorist Ayers, he has to realize he is unlikely to win a presidential race, even given very favorable circumstances.
But he is also friends with Oprah, and she has been pushing "The Secret", that latest repackaging of "positive visualization", the bunkum which resurfaces in pop culture about once a decade or so. The basic premise is that the universe infinitely malleable and individuals are omnipotent, so all we have to do is really believe in something and it will happen. Pretty much the way the audience brings Tinkerbell back to life at the end of high school production of Peter Pan, if you believe in fairies, they will exist. "The Secret" pretty much takes that idea and argues if you really believe in a seven figure bank account it will happen.
So, maybe, discouraged by his incredible lack of qualifications as well as the scandals waiting around every corner for McCain to uncover, Obama took Oprah's advice to heart. Maybe if he believes he is president, and acts like it, he really will be president.
It sounds silly, but the other explanation is that is so arrogant, that he thinks he deserves to be called president and make his own presidential seal, and he doesn't care about how absurd it makes him look.
Which means, sadly, that my theory is actually the less insulting. Depressing, isn't it?