George Marlin: Obama Is ‘Narcissist, Classic Elitist’

Conservative thinker and best-selling author George Marlin tells Newsmax that President Barack Obama is the nation’s “narcissist in chief” due to his deeply ingrained elitist attitude. And Marlin says that ideological view has condemned Obama to failure.

Marlin served as executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey under New York Gov. George Pataki and was the Conservative Party’s candidate in the 1993 race for mayor in New York City.

Marlin is one of the country’s most influential conservatives. His columns have appeared in The New York Post, National Review, and publications around the nation. He also serves as chairman of the Philadelphia Trust Bank.

In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV, Marlin discusses the thought behind the book’s title. “This is a nation that has had its elites through its entire history, who believe they are superior to the rest and should be running things, that they should be the collective managers of America,” he says.

“We’ve seen it with the Federalists, with Alexander Hamilton, John Adams. But this generation of elitists I define as narcissists, and I think the narcissist in chief is the president of the United States. He is the classic example of narcissism running a nation — a nation he’s running into the ground at the moment.

“Obama uses the ‘I’ word more than all the presidents have used it collectively in the 200 and some-odd years of our nation. I think he was greatly influenced by [Vietnam-era radical and domestic terrorist] Bill Ayers, who introduced him to the elite, so-called intellectual world of Hyde Park, Chicago.

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