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On Obama's never-ending OBESSION with Himself
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Are you as fed up as I am with Barack Obama's never-ending obsession with himself and his "American journey"? The guy just can't begin a speech without the "I am Black, my father came to this country from Kenya, and my momma "made me rise before dawn to learn of their truth when I lived as a child in a foreign land" - or the semblance thereof .

Everything is always all about him. He's by far the most self-centered, self-absorbed, president in history.
As Bill Krystal posits at TWS, does Obama understand that the office of the presidency is bigger--much bigger--than he is?

He just can't get away from thinking and speaking as though his journey is so noteworthy that it needs to be intruded into practically every presidential speech.

Do we really care about his father, his mother, or his "own American journey"?

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Al Qaeda recruits back in Europe, but why?
Four men say their training experience in Pakistan wasn't what they hoped for. Anti-terrorism officials wonder if they're just biding their time, ready to strike in Europe.

The former recruit went on to tell police that he was told by "his chief" that "the videos . . . served to impress the enemy and incite people to come fight, and he knew this was a scam and propaganda."
Disenchantment aside, the accounts of four of the returning militants arrested in Europe combine with intercepts to paint a detailed picture of Al Qaeda's secret compounds. They also reinforce intelligence that a campaign of U.S. Predator drone airstrikes has sown suspicion and disarray and stoked tension with tribes in northwestern Pakistan, anti-terrorism officials say.Nontheless, despite the effects of the Predator airstrikes and returning "militants" saying their training experience in Pakistan wasn't what they hoped for: