GREAT MOMENTS IN PROJECTION AND CHUTZPAH: Former Obama campaign manager diagnoses Trump on air as ‘psychopath:’

David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and later served as a senior adviser in his administration, on Sunday diagnosed Donald Trump during an NBC interview as “a psychopath running for president.”

The assessment prompted a startled response from Chuck Todd, the host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” who questioned Plouffe’s qualifications to make a psychiatric diagnosis of a major-party presidential nominee on television.

Plouffe defended his opinion by pointing to what he said are the hallmark symptoms of psychosis.

“Well, listen, grandiose notion of self-worth, pathological lying, lack of empathy and remorse,” he said.

Says the man whose candidate in 2008 preened in front of styrofoam Roman columns, uttered such portentous phrases as “this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal” – merely because he had won the Democratic nomination in June – and “My job this morning is to be so persuasive . . . that a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany, and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Barack.”

And once in office promised over 36 times, “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan,” and during his political career flipped, flopped, and flipped again on gay marriage.

And then there’s Obama and the Middle East.