The Presumptuous Candidate

In his closed door meeting with House Democrats Tuesday night, presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama delivered a real zinger, according to a witness, suggesting that he was beginning to believe his own hype.

Obama was waxing lyrical about last week's trip to Europe, when he concluded, according to the meeting attendee, "this is the moment, as Nancy [Pelosi] noted, that the world is waiting for."

No tape of the event exists and no one is denying the quote.

But one leadership aide said the full quote put it into a different context. According to that aide, Obama said, "It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign -- that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all. It's about America. I have just become a symbol."

How many times has Barack or one of his apostles said something outrageous, which was immediately followed by a, "What he really meant was..."

I found this story at washingtonpost.com, and in the comment section an outraged liberal wrote, "I can't believe that Fox Freakin' News has taken over the Washington Post!"

(I must pause for a moment and say parenthetically - thus the parenthesis - that I would love it if the most-watched cable news organization changed its name to "The Fox Freakin' News Channel.")

While it is shocking that a Washington Post employee would suggest that Obama is a bit full of himself, I think we can all be thankful that the journalist avoided using the word "uppity."