OBAMA TALKS TRASH. “Liberals are getting a taste of what conservative critics saw close up during the 2008 campaign and the health care fight: Obama's intolerance toward dissent, perhaps rooted in a personal arrogance and too much self-regard. His personality leads him to call names and question critics' motives, and it also makes him bristle at outside pressure. ‘He knows he kicks ass, and he doesn't need any other validation,’ one liberal former Obama administration official told me this week.“