There is a need for a phrase to crystallize the meme that Obama, over and above his committment to historically discredited Marxism, is a shallow narcissist. Might this work: The Audacity of Hype. If this phrase is not in the blogosphere, it should be. I hope that many will see fit to extend, expand and export the phrase with its associated meme. A suggestion for a bumper sticker: “The Audacity of Hype. Obama wrote the book on it.”

Most voters who have lived more than two decades have encountered a malignant narcissist. The phrase I’m suggesting may help them connect that experience to Obama’s persona. The smile, a signal evolved to promote cohesion in small bands, is honest in most contexts, but hype when flashed by the salesman on the used car lot. If the USA is to avoid an Obama presidency, then by November many folks must come to see Obama’s ready simile as hype. The Rock Star style of campaigning is hype. Narcissisn locomotes on hype and marks itself by vicious responses to legitimate criticism (“attacks on my wife are infuriating”).

Hitler, Allende, Chavez, Mugabe attest that democracy can be a suicide. This is serious business.