Prospero | Johnson: Politics and language

Not time enough for counting

By R.L.G. | BERLIN

IS BARACK Obama a narcissist? Charles Krauthammer thinks so, and he should know. The conservative American pundit is a psychiatrist by training, and with his Vulcan-like facial features, gravelly voice and articulate defence of conservative positions, he presents himself as an intellectual cut above most of the shouting heads in Washington.

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