Barry’s Psychological Liabilities
Barack Obama does seem to evince the arrogance that only an Ivy educated intellectual can exhibit. Generally such people have excellent facility with language, a grounding in the conventional -isms of the day, and a rather disconnected grasp of the more prosaic instances that make up most people’s lives. For Obama, $4.00 gasoline is useful in furthering his environmental beliefs; the pain that it causes people is an abstraction, only important in how it might effect his prospects in the election.