Obama says: "Good Job Obama"

I'm taking issue after reading this article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35437078/ns/politics-white_house/

On 2 points: #1 - Obama is praising himself, and #2 - All the claims are based on 'what might have been'.

#1 - Is there anything more disgusting than someone talking about how awesome they are?

#2 - "One year later, it is largely thanks to the recovery act that a second depression is no longer a possibility," Really? How do you know? Did you go into the future of the past to see what happened, then returned to the current future to tell us that?

It bothers me to see him, and any leader, make claims of such a nature. They don't know - it's all rhetoric and it bothers me. How does Obama know that a great depression would have / could have happened? He doesn't. He just uses this method of speaking to make himself look awesome <-- see point #1 above.