Is Obama Already Obsessed With His Legacy?

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:30:06 +0000 – By Andrea TantarosRepublican Political Commentator/FOXNews.com Contributor

There's a saying: "You can never be too rich, too thin, or go too far too fast." Our current president seems to subscribe to the last part of that adage. Being the first African-American to be elected to the White House doesn't appear to be good enough for Barack Obama. He's got to be ultra-famous, and that means going far--fast.

While many presidents have laid out what they have believed to be "bold" policy plans for the future, it's typically a broad theme or two that echoes their campaign promises and is accepted as somewhat attainable. But Obama is making it his mission to address every issue this country faces by sounding the alarm of urgency to get his way.

Obama says "this country can't afford to wait on healthcare." More like, this country can't AFFORDuniversal healthcare. However, if Obama were to completely socialize medicine he'd surely earn his place in the history books while simultaneously thumbing his nose at the Clintons. If he can shove his cap and trade program through he'd be hailed an environmental savior, out greening even that Green Giant known as Al Gore. He's gone after executive pay, proposed a budget that seeks to grow government, cripple investment, and impose a host of punitive wealth transfer programs turning us into Europe.

Many economists are editorializing that what Obama's preaching isn't even possible due to our country's limited financial bandwidth. But the president doesn't seem to care. -- He is charging ahead and planning to charge all of his proposals on the country's already maxed-out credit card. Most puzzlingly, he is devoid of a plan to address the most pressing problem facing the nation: a credit crisis.

Is Obama's pathological narcissism and pursuit for unparalleled notoriety driving our nation into the ground?

Many politicians are egomaniacs just look at Nixon and Clinton! Samuel Vaknin, Ph.D., and a known expert on pathology and narcissism writes about many leaders who've dominated the world stage including Mao and Stalin:

"They created a personality cult around themselves and with their blazing speeches elevated their admirers, filled their hearts with enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a new zest for life. They gave them hope! They promised them the moon, but alas, invariably they brought them to their doom. When you are a victim of a cult of personality, you don't know it until it is too late."

The personalized emblems, the presumptuous near-replicas of presidential seals that Obama and his team created before he even won the office, the cultish iconography, the desire to silence any kind of dissent among his detractors, all of these things point to a man who seems to be obsessively driven by his own self-interest.

With each policy push and passing day that Wall Street suffers, we are learning that with Obama, reality and fantasy are intertwined. Let's hope the country wakes up in time, before his quest for greatness sacrifices the nation's best interests.