What Makes Obama So Arrogant?

One reason is that he surrounds himself with people like Valerie Jarrett.

In author David Remnick’s Obama biography, “The Bridge,” he quotes White House adviser and longtime friend Valerie Jarrett: “I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. ... He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. ... So, what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. ... He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do.”

If Barack Hussein Obama doesn't believe that he's ever been challenged intellectually, it's because he lacks the humility to admit his failures even to himself. I've heard the man talk enough to have some appreciation of the depth and breadth of the man's ignorance. He has absolutely no idea of how much he doesn't know.