How Obama’s closest friends and supporters see him

The following is a remark by Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett, quoted in David Remnick’s Obama biography, The Bridge:

“I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is…. He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability—the extraordinary, uncanny ability—to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually…. So, what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy…. He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do.”

Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 05, 2010 06:10 PM | Send