Our Narcissist in Basketball

[DSamuels]

Obama: 'We're up a few points' on Romney

By REID J. EPSTEIN | 

8/22/12 8:19 PM EDT

NEW YORK – President Obama said he’s beating Mitt Romney “by a few points” and said time is running out in the 2012 presidential election.

“I can’t resist a basketball analogy,” he told donors at a Lincoln Center fundraiser that featured NBA commissioner David Stern and current and former basketball stars including Michael Jordan. “We are in the fourth quarter. We’re up by a few points but the other side is coming strong and they, they, they play a little dirty. We’ve got a few folks on our team in foul trouble. We’ve got a couple of injuries and I believe that they’ve got one last run in them.”

“I’d say there’s about seven minutes to go in the game. And Michael’s competitiveness is legendary and nobody knows better than Michael that if you’ve got a little bit of a lead and there’s about seven minutes ago, that’s when you put them away.”

Along with Jordan, who sat next to his fiancée, Yvette Prieto, basketball stars present included Patrick Ewing, Walt “Clyde” Frazier, former Sen. Bill Bradley and Education Secretary Arne Duncan appeared at the fundraiser.

Obama said it is “very rare I come to an event where I’m like the fifth or sixth most interesting person. Usually people want to take a picture with me, sit next to me, talk to me. That has not been the case at this event.”

http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/08/obama-were-up-a-few-points-on-romney-132877.html#comments

[Carpy]

Obama said it is “very rare I come to an event where I’m like the fifth or sixth most interesting person. Usually people want to take a picture with me, sit next to me, talk to me. That has not been the case at this event.”

That has to be devestating to an ego like his.

[DSamuels]

I think it might account for the way he reacts towards criticism. He seems to take it very personally.

[sweet-a-kins]

Apparently not since he was joking about it

Quoting Carpy:

Obama said it is “very rare I come to an event where I’m like the fifth or sixth most interesting person. Usually people want to take a picture with me, sit next to me, talk to me. That has not been the case at this event.”

That has to be devestating to an ego like his.

[sweet-a-kins]

How does he react?

Oh I forgot the republicans lie of a narrative that he's "thin skinned"

Lol

Silly fox holes

Quoting DSamuels:

I think it might account for the way he reacts towards criticism. He seems to take it very personally.

[DSamuels]

"lie" you're going there again?

You really need to come up with some new words.

I don't know any other president who more or less declared war on a cable news station because of their reporting. If that isn't "thin skinned" I don't know what is. 

Quoting sweet-a-kins:

How does he react?

Oh I forgot the republicans lie of a narrative that he's "thin skinned"

Lol

Silly fox holes

Quoting DSamuels:

I think it might account for the way he reacts towards criticism. He seems to take it very personally.

[Citygirlk]

Really.... War??

Sorry im just so sick and tired of people using words like war and nazi (not saying you said nazi) so loosly it actually makes me sick.

Quoting DSamuels:

"lie" you're going there again?

You really need to come up with some new words.

I don't know any other president who more or less declared war on a cable news station because of their reporting. If that isn't "thin skinned" I don't know what is. 

Quoting sweet-a-kins:

How does he react?



Oh I forgot the republicans lie of a narrative that he's "thin skinned"



Lol



Silly fox holes

Quoting DSamuels:

I think it might account for the way he reacts towards criticism. He seems to take it very personally.

[DSamuels]

Yes, really war. It was all over the news in 2009, even the liberal papers.

From The New York Times Oct. 2009. 

Over the weekend, White House communications director Anita Dunn announced the official beginning of the Obama administration's war with Fox News. Of course, the battle has been openly brewing for months now. Even during the campaign, Obama's team gave up on sending surrogates to the network. "It was beyond diminishing returns," Dunn told the New York Times. "It was no returns." But now the war is out in the open. "We're going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent," she told the paper.

From L.A. Times Oct. 2009

The Obama White House is making no secret of its distaste for Fox News.

In a round of Sunday talk show appearances, the administration escalated its war against the network that likes to call itself "fair and balanced" but that happens to feature quite a few conservative voices.

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said on CNN that Fox News isn't even a news organization.

Quoting Citygirlk:

Really.... War??

Sorry im just so sick and tired of people using words like war and nazi (not saying you said nazi) so loosly it actually makes me sick.

Quoting DSamuels:

"lie" you're going there again?

You really need to come up with some new words.

I don't know any other president who more or less declared war on a cable news station because of their reporting. If that isn't "thin skinned" I don't know what is. 

Quoting sweet-a-kins:

How does he react?



Oh I forgot the republicans lie of a narrative that he's "thin skinned"



Lol



Silly fox holes

Quoting DSamuels:

I think it might account for the way he reacts towards criticism. He seems to take it very personally.

[sarebear31976]

Well since he is the leader of the free world, I would imagine that most of the time when he walks into a room he IS the center of attention.  I don't get why this was posted at all.

[GardenerArtist]

I agree.

Quoting sarebear31976:

Well since he is the leader of the free world, I would imagine that most of the time when he walks into a room he IS the center of attention.  I don't get why this was posted at all.

[sweet-a-kins]

 lol..if by WAR you mean he went on FOX and granted interviews...even though they are anti democrat...and ANTI OBAMA and spread lies about him

 

he STILL went on MULTIPLE times

Quoting DSamuels:

"lie" you're going there again?

You really need to come up with some new words.

I don't know any other president who more or less declared war on a cable news station because of their reporting. If that isn't "thin skinned" I don't know what is. 

Quoting sweet-a-kins:

How does he react?

Oh I forgot the republicans lie of a narrative that he's "thin skinned"

Lol

Silly fox holes

Quoting DSamuels:

I think it might account for the way he reacts towards criticism. He seems to take it very personally.