Here's what Lizza wrote toward the end of The Natural (published in The Atlantic Monthly, September, 2004):
I couldn’t help noticing, when we sat down to talk in the dilapidated storefront that houses his Springfield [Illinois] campaign headquarters, that the blue-pen drawing he’d doodled on his newspaper during fundraising calls was a portrait of himself.Lizza's fortuitous observation combined with the nation's tortured experience of Obama's presidential campaign and his seemingly-endless eight years at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, DC surely is enough to validate talk-radio host Tammy Bruce's considered dismissal of Obama as a "malignant narcissist."
So before his abrupt downfall, Lizza did some good reporting. He'll always have Springfield!