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Obama skips watching election results to take in HBO documentary about…himself

When B.O. spokestool Robert Gibbs told the press corps that Uhhhhh-bama wasn’t watching the results of his party crashing and burning in Tuesdays elections, many thought that Gibbsy was being disingenuous.

Turns out, Gibbsy was correct.  B.O. was too busy watching a fawning HBO documentary on his favorite subject: himself.  From Newsbusters:

During the 10AM ET hour of America’s Newsroom on Fox News Channel, fill-in co-host Martha Maccallum told viewers what President Obama watched on election night while Democrats suffered big losses in New Jersey and Virginia: “Robert Gibbs said, well, he was actually watching, you know, the HBO special about his year-long campaign and how it all went.”

On Tuesday night the White House had worked to downplay the Democratic gubernatorial defeats by claiming the President did not watch the election returns. Apparently Gibbs thought it would look better if the commander in chief was watching a self-indulgent fawning documentary about himself. Interestingly, Obama apparently previewed the HBO special a few days earlier, as Gibbs himself explained to the blog Talking Points Memo: “White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says Obama has already seen ‘By the People’…Gibbs told TPMDC Obama’s review: ‘Thumbs up!’”

As Newsbusters commenter vrwc13 points out, dude meets all of the symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.  Friggin’ wonderful.

November 4, 2009 - Posted by crushliberalism | Obama, shameful