If His Ego Was Any Bigger, He'd be Kanye

When the president called out Kanye West for being a jackass, was his conscience calling out his own ego? One has to wonder after Obama addressed the United Nations yesterday. Let's hope he never does this again, because the president sounded like a boastful child who thought the world started the day he was born. Or at least thought America started to be a real country once he took office.

Oddly enough, the despots and dictators in the room ate it up, because finally here was an American president who spoke their egotistical language. As Paul Mirengoff writes at Powerline:

Conservative commentary on President Obama's U.N. speech has correctly taken note of the extent to which Obama once again has apologized for America. What struck me as new, though, was extent to which he begged his audience to award the U.S. brownie points for his good acts. The one form of supplication follows from the other. Obama isn't just saying that the U.S. has been a bad boy in the past; he's also saying that we're a good boy now:

We know the future will be forged by deeds and not simply words. Speeches alone will not solve our problems -- it will take persistent action. For those who question the character and cause of my nation, I ask you to look at the concrete actions we have taken in just nine months.

Obama then listed a series of decisions that he hoped might placate the assembled thugs, dictators, and hypcrites -- a crowd from which he feels compelled to seek approval on behalf of the United States. Obama noted that he has banned torture, closed Gitmo, moved to end the war in Iraq, moved towards disarmament, attempted to advance the ball on creating a Palestinian state, "re-engaged the United Nations, paid our bills, joined the Human Rights Council."

So here was the president of the United States doing everything but getting down on his hands and knees before the representatives of every wretched regime in the world to plead that the U.S. has turned over a new leaf and, in effect, become harmless.

Obama got on his hands and knees for the rest of the world alright, but I can't describe what he was doing without resorting to colorful language. Let's just say Monica Lewinsky got more out of it.