The Bloom Is Off Of the Obama Rose

Others have written about the Charles Krauthamer column that took Senator Barack Obama to task for his out of control ego, you expect a column like this out of Krauthamer. Where you don't expect it is out of Joan Vennochi of the Boston Globe, but get it we did and boy is it a barn burner.

JUST LIKE the Obama girl, Obama has a crush on Obama.

Barack Obama always was a larger-than-life candidate with a healthy ego. Now he's turning into the A-Rod of politics. It's all about him.

He's giving his opponent something other than issues to attack him on: narcissism.

A convention hall isn't good enough for the presumptive Democratic nominee. He plans to deliver his acceptance speech in the 75,000 seat stadium where the Denver Broncos play. Before a vote is cast, he's embarking on a foreign policy tour that will use cheering Europeans - and America's top news anchors - as extras in his campaign. What do you expect from a candidate who already auditioned a quasi-presidential seal with the Latin inscription, "Vero possumus" - "Yes, we can"?

Obama finds criticism of his wife "infuriating" and doesn't want either of them to be the target of satire. Tell that to the Carters, the Reagans, the Clintons, and the Bushes, father and son.

There's no such thing as a humble politician. But when Obama looks into the mirror, he doesn't just see a president; he sees JFK.

Vennochi brings up a lot of the same criticisms that the conservative punditry has brought up in recent weeks which leads one to wonder if this horribly long campaign season hasn't done more to defeat Barack Obama than anything the Republicans could have done. It certainly seems that way.