EGO-BAMA, SWALLOW SOME OF THAT PRIDE - New York Post: "...But a closer reading reveals a possible explanation. Perhaps he's an adulation junkie. Maybe the diminishing 'nourishment' Sen. Obama receives from 'popularity' is actually causing him to ratchet up his pursuit of more and more praise just to get the minimal fix he needs.
That would account for why a man who thinks striving for popularity is a character flaw has nonetheless decided to give his nomination acceptance speech in a 76,000-seat football stadium.
Or it might tell us why a candidate who hasn't even been nominated yet wants to re-enact some of the most famous scenes from both Reagan and JFK's highlight reels by holding a rally at Germany's Brandenburg Gate, even though he's not a head of state yet. (German authorities, aware of Obama's rock-star status with the German public, diplomatically suggested that it was up to Obama to decide what is in 'good taste.')
Perhaps Dominic Lawson, writing in the British newspaper The Independent had it right when he recently wrote that Obama is 'a man of stunning articulacy, but also stunning self-regard...'"
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