{"id":1755,"date":"2010-01-22T23:28:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T05:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2010-01-22T23:28:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T05:28:27","slug":"the-pathological-narcissist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/22\/the-pathological-narcissist\/politics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pathological Narcissist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/patriotpost.us\/alexander\/2010\/01\/21\/state-of-disunion\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/image.patriotpost.us.s3.amazonaws.com\/2010-01-21-alexander.jpg?resize=200%2C301\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saw this in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/patriotpost.us\/edition\/2010\/01\/22\/digest\/\">Patriot Post Digest;<\/a> classic. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>This Week&#8217;s &#8216;Alpha Jackass&#8217; Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That I do think is a mistake of mine &mdash; I think the assumption was if I just focus on policy, if I just focus on this provision or that law or if we&#8217;re making a good rational decision here, then people will get it.&#8221;<br \/>\n&mdash; Barack Obama on his proposed health care takeover.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Got that, folks? Even when he&#8217;s admitting a &#8220;mistake of mine,&#8221; he&#8217;s throwing the blame onto others. <em>His<\/em> failures are <em>your<\/em> fault because you just don&#8217;t get it. That&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/patriotpost.us\/alexander\/2010\/01\/21\/state-of-disunion\/\">pathological narcissism.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Next week&#8217;s State of the Union address ought to be interesting&#8230; Interesting to see how often the blame for the country&#8217;s problems will be cast on Bush, the Republican obstructionists, the populace who just doesn&#8217;t get it, the Tea Partyers, etc&#8230; But I doubt he&#8217;ll blame the true culprit; his teleprompter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw this in today&#8217;s Patriot Post Digest; classic. This Week&#8217;s &#8216;Alpha Jackass&#8217; Award &#8220;That I do think is a mistake of mine &mdash; I think the assumption was if I just focus on policy, if I just focus on this provision or that law or if we&#8217;re making a good rational decision here, then people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}