His own private reality

I caught this on Commentary: "Obama entering a world all his own"

What is fairly astonishing in all this is the utter lack of self-awareness by the president. A jolting collision is occurring between his own self-conception (Obama views himself as a world-historical figure and Great Man) and the multiple and multiplying failures of his presidency. Obama appears incapable of processing the truth or coming to grips with reality. And so he’s spinning tales day after day, including his fantastic (and thoroughly discredited) claim that “Since I’ve been president, federal spending has risen at the lowest pace in nearly 60 years.”

Is Obama really still repeating this thoroughly-debunked bunkum?  Well, according the White House web page, yes he is, as of yesterday:

Even after you factor in all the work that we did to prevent us from slipping into a depression, the pace of growth of government spending is lower under my administration than it has been in the last 50 years. 

You have to wonder about this guy.  Mickey Kaus took note of Obama's enthusiastic embrace of this "skinflint" persona:

Does Obama really not have an intuitive feeling for how much he’s been spending? That’s a little like not remembering how much sex you’re having. He’s the one doing the spending, after all. Even if he wasn’t, you’d think an ordinary BS detector would kick in.

Forget it, Mick.  It's Obamatown.