Politico rolls out the "uppity negro" frame. Spins Obama's presser humility into "arrogance." [View All]

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What an utterly shameful rag. Just look at this shit.

Obama's arrogance
By: John F. Harris and Glenn Thrush
November 5, 2010 04:40 AM EDT

In the anthology of Barack Obama quotations, one of the classics came just hours before the event that made him the hottest property in American politics.

As Obama walked toward the arena at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, where he gave an electrifying keynote address, a Chicago Tribune reporter noted that he seemed to be making a good impression.

“I’m LeBron, baby,” Obama told author David Mendell. “I can play on this level. I got some game.”

Those words came at the start of the supernova phase of Obama’s career. But Wednesday came another quote, not quite so crisp, destined to become an early marker of the crash-to-earth phase.

“This is something that I think every president needs to go through because….sometimes we lose track of the ways that we connected with folks that got us here in the first place,” Obama said toward the end of his post-election news conference, after repeated questions pressing him to go beyond his initial clinical descriptions of the disastrous election results and explain whether he felt responsibility or remorse. “Now, I’m not recommending for every future president that they take a shellacking like they, like I did last night. I’m sure there are easier ways to learn these lessons. But I do think this is a growth process and an evolution.”

Is he capable of growth? And how painful the evolution?

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