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Krauthammer’s “The Audacity of Vanity”
Charles Krauthammer has written another brilliant piece–this time on Sen. Obama’s pervasive elitist and narcissistic tendencies. Krauthammer, a psychiatrist by trade, paints in interesting portrait of the first-term senator. Sen. Obama’s desire to speak at the Brandenburg Gate is not entirely misguided. Speaking there will undoubtedly evoke images of great statesmen like Ronald Reagan, which could help to bolster his foreign policy credentials. But Sen. Obama is not Ronald Reagan and a well orchestrated speech at a landmark where great men have made history will do little to enhance Sen. Obama’s foreign policy resume. As Krauthammer notes, speaking at the Brandenburg gate is something to be earned; Obama clearly doesn’t understand this:
What Obama does not seem to understand is that the…
