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Big Bang Biden?

Barack Obama has often been accused of being too full of himself, of looking in the mirror and seeing not simply a future president but a profile for the next carving on Mount Rushmore.

His infatuation with himself, seemingly buying into the myth of Barack as The One, the new Messiah, has been fueled by rhetoric such as the unfortunate example I quoted recently (here), where, referring in a speech to his impending nomination, he stated that he was

absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick, and good jobs for the jobless. This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal....

But now I wonder if there might not be more going on here than an individual ego on steroids. In his Saturday speech in Springfield, newly anointed veep candidate Joe Biden said that the next president will have

an incredible opportunity, incredible opportunity, not only to change the direction of America, but literally, literally to change the direction of the world.

Halting the rise of the oceans, healing the planet, ?literally, literally [changing] the direction of the world?? I know political rhetoric is often inflated, promising more than can be delivered, and self-confidence is a good thing, but doesn?t seeing one?s self and one?s party as agents of a transformation approaching the Big Bang (or maybe another Ice Age) reflect a level of hubris that should cause us some concern?

Full post as published by Discriminations on August 24, 2008 (boomark / email).