The American Narcissus (cont.)

By Jonathan V. Last
Published November 15, 2010 2:18pm ET
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The American Narcissus (cont.)
A reader sends in a classic Obama moment that I completely missed. Here’s Ryan Lizza in a 2004 profile of Obama for the Atlantic: I couldn’t help noticing, when we sat down to talk in the dilapidated storefront that houses his Springfield campaign headquarters, that the blue-pen drawing he’d doodled on his newspaper during fundraising calls […]

A reader sends in a classic Obama moment that I completely missed. Here’s Ryan Lizza in a 2004 profile of Obama for the Atlantic:

I couldn’t help noticing, when we sat down to talk in the dilapidated storefront that houses his Springfield campaign headquarters, that the blue-pen drawing he’d doodled on his newspaper during fundraising calls was a portrait of himself.

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