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For four years now, Democrats and the media have droned on about how much of a narcissist Donald Trump is. It goes without saying that there is solid evidence that he is one. Over the last month, however, evidence has piled up showing that Barack Obama is also a raging narcissist. Yet, the media never applies that label to Obama. Orange Man bad; mixed-race man good. But maybe it’s time we all tried to look deeper than the widespread reflexive Barack worship. Because there are plenty of reasons to think that Obama’s ego is out of control. First; the monstrously self-indulgent memoirs. With Dreams from My Father (466 pages) and The Audacity of Hope (384 pages), Obama wrote about his pre-presidential life and thoughts on many issues.

What was that? That was the question the internet was asking as the disjointed first night of the Democratic National Convention kicked off in Milwaukee. ‘It’s time to let them know what we stand for,’ said Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in the made-for-MTV montage that opened the virtual convention. This night did not accomplish that. The night started out calm. Actress Eva Longoria spoke in muted tones as if she were hosting a telethon raising money for children in Africa. The first major speaker was New York governor Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo has been on a victory tour touting his COVID-19 accomplishments and tonight was no different: ‘Our way worked and it was beautiful.’ ‘Our’ way was losing 32,000 New Yorkers.

Has there ever been a more cack-handed, sloppy bunch of goons than these Democratic candidates? Ancient Joe Biden looks like he’s just been defrosted after a few thousand years in a cryochamber, tremulously stirring to a world full of new social norms that baffle him. Elizabeth Warren pretends she’s a Native American and poor Bernie Sanders’s rusty old ticker could blow any minute now. Beto O’Rourke’s chilling rhetoric on everything from guns to religion makes Vladimir Lenin look like Isaiah Berlin. Cory Booker is a 50-year old adult man who proudly attends comic book conventions.

It’s beginning to look as though Michelle Obama does not like Donald Trump. In her new memoir, Becoming, she explains why. Her beef with Trump centers on his embrace of the birther controversy about her husband, who was supposedly born in Indonesia or some other far off country — anywhere but America: ‘The whole thing was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed. But it was also dangerous, deliberately meant to stir up the wingnuts and kooks. What if someone with an unstable mind loaded a gun and drove to Washington? What if that person went looking for our girls? Donald Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this I’d never forgive him.