Politicians are by nature egomaniacs, but in the aftermath of the gifts to the British PM (a bunch of DVDs, and the PM is not a movie buff and is reportedly going blind) plus the return of the Churchill bust, this is indeed remarkable. To me, it suggests that Obama considers his speeches to have some kind of hypnotic ability. That may be no big delusion for (say) a salesman, but I don't think that the bad guys in this world, Muslim and non-Muslim, are that weak-minded.
As Hitler said after negotiating with Neville Chamberlain over the partitioning of Czechoslovakia: "I've seen our enemies, and they're little worms."
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