TigerText & Egos: A Comparison of Tiger Woods, Barack Obama, & Ronald Reagan
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on March 3, 2010
Tiger Woods, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan... comparison of egos
I caught a high-tech story today at San Francisco Chronicle about “TigerText,” a new iPhone app that deletes text and voicemail messages. The creators claim the new app was named long before Tiger Woods’ arrogant, sordid sex scandals with multiple mistresses behind his wife’s back hit front pages around the world, but you can’t ignore the irony:
Last week, a new iPhone app called Tiger Text hit the App Store. The app lets users send text messages to a server that could be read by the recipient via an app reader. The text message would then be wiped from the face of the earth (i.e. both the texter and recipient’s iPhones, and the server) after a pre-determined amount of time.
The purpose of this app, of course, is to hide your tiger tracks. Makers of the app swear they came up with the app’s name, Tiger Text, well before steamy Tiger Woods texts and voicemail messages that he’d sent to mistresses made headline news.
An iPhone application to protect marital infidelities and business double-crossings, to feed egos, to perpetuate narcissistic entitlement, of being “above it all.” Should become a top-seller…
On a similar note, there’s a spot-on essay at American Spectator in which Jeffrey Lord analyzes the egos and sense of entitlement of Tiger Woods, Barack Obama, and Ronald Reagan.
Here’s the opening… go to American Spectator to read it in its entirety:
‘I’m the President’: Tiger Woods In The White House:
“I felt I was entitled. I had worked hard. Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish. I don’t get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me.”
– Tiger Woods“I’m the President.”
– Barack ObamaThree words. Volumes of information.
They are, of course, equals. Constitutional equals, as specifically provided by Article I (which creates the legislative branch) and Article II (which creates the executive branch) of the Constitution. The Article III crowd of constitutional equals, the federal judiciary, were correctly not at the table for the recent televised health care summit at the Blair House between the legislative and executive branches.
Yet unmistakably, there was one person at this event who clearly considered himself superior to the others. When Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell noted that Democrats had used twice the time of Republicans as the televised summit proceeded, Obama responded thusly: “There was an imbalance in the opening statements, because I’m the President. And I didn’t count my time in terms of dividing it evenly.”
Translation?
Let’s do a Tiger Woods translation. Being President means the rules do not apply. Presidents are entitled. They get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone else in this room do not apply to me. Why? Because “I’m the President.”
Here’s a Ronald Reagan story.
Several times during his presidency, Reagan found himself in the hospital for various ailments. A gunshot wound to the chest plus a couple surgeries. On one of these occasions he was discovered on his hands and knees in his hospital bathroom, wiping up some water. Aghast, the person who discovered the President of the United States so employed received this explanation from Reagan. He had knocked a glass of water on the floor. Quite aware that he was the president, he was concerned that someone — most probably a nurse — would get in trouble for allowing such a thing to occur to “the President.” Instead of summoning someone to clean up the mess he himself had made — and thus potentially getting that someone else in trouble — he had grabbed a towel and dropped to his hands and knees to mop up the water himself.
The difference between the Reagan story and the Obama reaction to Senator McConnell’s noting the use of time by Constitutional equals is illustrative of exactly the problem that drives Americans crazy.
In short, as with Tiger Woods and his woman problem, Barack Obama and his liberal allies have a superiority problem. Liberals/progressives really do see themselves as “entitled” to make decisions for everyone else. They really do believe, as did Tiger, that the rules do not apply to them. Why? Because they are addicted to the idea they are smarter than everyone else.
Yes, yes, yes, their very-smart predecessors gave the nation Vietnam, caused the Great Depression (Herbert Hoover was a “progressive Republican,” lest we forget) and then FDR’s liberal intellectuals prolonged it. And yes, back in 2007, even the Nation’s David Moberg had to admit of Community Organizer Obama’s work on Chicago’s South Side:
“Despite some meaningful victories, the work of Obama — and hundreds of other organizers — did not transform the South Side or restore lost industries.” But hey, who cares? Robert McNamara, Hoover, the FDR crowd and Obama were and are just so mind-blowingly smart! So what if the results are a lot crazy?
Ego: the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
More Obama, Tiger Woods, and Democrat stuff:
FOX News: The I’s Have It: Obama Hits 34 I’s in Washington, D.C.
Joseph C. Phillips, Big Hollywood: Mr. President You Are Blocking the Sun
Frugal Café Blog Zone: My “Barack Roundup”: George F. Will, Ann Coulter, Charles Krauthammer, Tony Blankley Weigh in on POTUS and Tiger Woods’ Apology Press Conference: “I Brought This Shame on Myself… I Have Let Down My Friends” (video)
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Obama’s Plan In Two Words and No Offense to the Clueless
Diary of a Mad Conservative: Ronald Reagan – Great one liner
Barbados Free Press: Lessons from the death of the Tiger Woods Brand
The Conservative Pup: Divide And Conquer: The 2010 Democrat Strategy
Nice Deb: The Obama Dems and Their Flagrant Abuse Of Power and Democrats vs The Revolting, Bitter Clingers and Video: Las Vegas Mayor: “This President Is A Real Slow Learner”
Joseph Lawler, American Spectator: Norm Coleman’s Right-Wing CAP
GayPatriot: Does this make Obama a liar or just a hypocrite? and The Contradiction at the Heart of Obama-ism
The Powers That Be: Obama vs. Obama
Gateway Pundit: Obama Flashback: Dems Should Not Pass Healthcare With 50-Plus-1 Strategy (Video) and Unreal. Joe Biden Travels to Michigan to Defend Stimulus (Where Unemployment is 14%) -Video and Greenspan Confirms: Team Obama Cooking the Books on Unemployment and Leading Democrat: “We’ve Got to Spend Our Way Out of This Recession” (Video)
Flopping Aces: Geese, Golden Eggs, & Government
Ace of Spades HQ: Tiger Woods: My Corporate Sponsors Inform Me That I Am Genuinely Sorry I Dick-Shanked It into the Strange-Bunker
Mcnorman’s Weblog: Obama cries “uncle” finally!
VotingFemale: Obama’s Two Faces of Reconciliation aka the Nuclear Option and Obama stimulated a single week loss of 31,000 more voters’ jobs; continues to spend like a mad man
Patterico’s Pontifications: Obama: Damn, I’m Humble and “Because I’m the President” and Behind the Scenes at the White House and Obama Concedes on Health Care Reform? (Updated)
Thomas Del Beccaro, Big Government: Judging Alito — Obama’s Ultimate Arrogance
Bob McCarty Writes: Oklahoma Senator Says Obama Best Liar Ever
On My Watch – The Writings of SamHenry: Tired of a Managed Presidency? and High on Himself – Obama Enjoyed His SOTU Fantasy and Tiger’s Interview 18 February – No More Threesomes off the Links!
The Lonely Conservative: Video: Why one should never compare Obamanomics to Reaganomics in the company of Charles Krauthammer
Sharp Right Turn: Obama Budget Fashion Chic: Budget Freeze-OUT; Unsustainable Record Deficits-IN
Motor City Times: Laura Berman Criticizes The Mass Bashing Of Tiger Woods While Participating In The Mass Bashing Of Sarah Palin
The Anchoress: Evil Tax Cuts & Humpty Words
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I definitely have the same opinion with you concerning this issue. Nice post. Already bookmarked for future reference.
I enjoyed reading this – good post. And good connections made.