It's All About Obama: Even The Fall Of The Berlin Wall

Barack Hussein Obama couldn't take time out of his busy fundraising schedule to bother himself with attending the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But he couldn't resist the audience and therefore the opportunity to talk about himself.

“Few would have foreseen,’’ declared the president, “that a united Germany would be led by a woman from [the former East German state of] Brandenburg or that their American ally would be led by a man of African descent. But human destiny is what human beings make of it.’’

As presidential rhetoric goes, this was hardly a match for “Ich bin ein Berliner,’’ still less another “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.’’ But as a specimen of presidential narcissism, it is hard to beat. Obama couldn’t be troubled to visit Berlin to commemorate a momentous milestone in the history of human liberty. But he was glad to explain to those who were there why reflections on that milestone should inspire appreciation for the self-made “destiny’’ of his own rise to power.

Was there ever a president as deeply enamored of himself as Barack Obama?

No mention of Ronald Reagan. No mention of Lady Margaret Thatcher. No mention of John F. Kennedy or even the Berlin airlift. Nope. It's all about the "O."