Getting back to the subject, and the post by bearded bruce-
For those who don't recognize the name of Michael Gerson, he often writes opinion columns for the Washington Post, and was a former White House speech writer.
He also has deplored Obama's narcissism, exhibited in his speech to the United Nations.

"The thesis: pre-Obama America is a nation of many flaws and failures. The antithesis: The world responds with understandable but misguided prejudice. The synthesis: Me. Me, at all costs; me, in spite of all terrors; me, however long and hard the road may be. How great a world we all should see, if only all were more like---me."
Washington Post.