How to spot a Narcissist

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From Jodi Kantor’s The Obamas, page 66:

Obama had always had a high estimation of his ability to cast and run his operation. When David Plouffe, his campaign manager, first interviewed for a job with him in 2006, the senator gave him a warning: “I think I could probably do every job on the campaign better than the people I’ll hire to do it,” he said. “It’s hard to give up control when that’s all I’ve known.” Obama said nearly the same thing to Patrick Gaspard, whom he hired to be the campaign’s political director. “I think I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters,” Obama told him. “I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.”

Did you spot it?

7 thoughts on “How to spot a Narcissist

  1. jana

    >>>Did you spot it?

    I spotted *something*… it looked like a giant pile of cow poop.

    Po-tay-to, po-tah-to, I guess.

  2. Mike

    And my dogs can do a better job then him – that is because his picks are not only mentaly less than a 5 year old, my dogs are smarter – I suspect someone accidentally omitted the minus sign in front of his IQ as it was being recorded, if he even has one that is

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