BREAKING: Politicians Have Egos

Charles Krauthammer is leading the blog discussion today with his Washington Post column detailing Barack Obama's love affair with himself. The Obama as egotistical theme has been running through conservative circles for a few months now. So, rather than examine the merits of Krauthammer's column, what's most interesting to me is to see how the convergence of conservative talking points has made its way here from the blogs, to the party mouthpieces and now to the respected columnists. But is a politician supposedly full of themselves really all that surprising? Consider the tremendous amount of ego it takes to believe you are the most-qualified person to be the leader of the free world. Regardless of his merits as a person and candidate, does anyone sincerely believe McCain suffers from an abject poverty of ego? In Obama's... [read full story]