The audacity of ego
Check it out. The Prophet Barack (Hope! Change! Waffles!) has a campaign plane that, as one journalist puts it, makes Air Force One "seem a tad claustrophobic."
Barack Obama’s new campaign plane is nothing short of grand. Well, for the candidate that is.
Obama’s section of the plane rivals that of any first class. Recently the front cabin of the Boeing 757 was retrofitted to install four individual chairs that resemble La-Z-Boys. They are free-standing and made of plush leather with pockets on the sides. There is also a booth which seats four for a meeting or a meal.
His chair has his name and campaign logo embroidered on the back top -- “Obama ‘08” on one line and “President” underneath. To one side is a small table stacked with newspapers ready for the candidate’s arrival. The table of the booth is always covered in snacks and cheese and is where Obama spends most of his time during flights meeting with staff and sitting for the occasional interview.
Normally I'd just write this off as a campaign deciding to travel in style and not caring about how fast it burns through its cash. (You know, the money provided by those thousands of small donors Obama likes to brag about, as Gaius points out.)
But this is just another piece in the mosaic of the 2008 Obama Ego Tour. So far, we've seen: his own presidential seal; a world tour at the end of which he delivered his sermon to the Germans before 200,000 Berliners in an attempt to show himself as the heir to Kennedy and Reagan (and to impress the rubes back home -- "See? The Europeans love me!"); his absolute refusal to admit he was wrong about Iraq and the surge in the face of overwhelming empirical evidence, to the extent that he would still have chosen a losing strategy, knowing what we know now; and his feigned shock at finding that people like Reverend Wright and Father Pfleger were racists, and then expecting us to believe him without question. Example after example after example, all showing his tremendous arrogance and self-love. An egomania so overbearing that even those who should be his allies are calling him on it.
And now the Prince of New Politics has his own presidential seat on his own presidential plane, before he's even accepted the nomination, let alone been elected and inaugurated.
Mark this: Obama's cocksure conceit will cost him the election.
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