Sultan Knish a blog by Daniel Greenfield: "Obama's predilection for turning his speeches into 'I' flavored confections is his unconscious and unselfconscious communion at that holiest of postmodern institutions, the cult of the self. It is a religion without faith, stripping away the deity and theology, leaving behind only the crisis of self-esteem. The great existential question of the cult of self is how to be happy. The resolution is invariably self-love.
Obama like few others is a man deeply in love with himself. His books are more than just a testament of self-love, they are the story of how he came to love himself. Like so many modern memoirs, it is a self-help tome dressed up in literary clothes. A note of encouragement to all of his followers who still haven't found the inner peace that comes from the self-absorbed mastication of biography, childhood memories and identity politics. The journey ends like every love story does, with the narrator embracing the object of his affection. The object of his affection being himself."
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