Some expressed astonishment when Obama intoned that "we are the ones we've been waiting for," which of course meant "I am the one you've been waiting for." Twice before we had noted the swelling arrogance of Obama.
In Germany it was "generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment," you know, "when the rise of the oceans began to slow" because those cars in Boston which were melting the Arctic ice cap were impounded by his enviropolice.
Then there was the Obama quasi-presidential seal -- he couldn't wait.
At an intimate gathering of House members last night reporting on his triumphal tour of Europe (during which he bugged out of a scheduled visit to wounded servicemen) he announced to his open-mouthed listeners, "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions."
Well, all this deserves a whole new book, don't you think?
Even the Bush-trashing Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank is choking on this:
"Barack Obama has long been his party's presumptive nominee. Now he's becoming its presumptuous nominee."
The Republican National Committee is getting into the swing of things and has launched its Obama Audacity Watch.
Watch this space.
