Obama and the art of projection

Democrats projecting their negative thoughts and agenda on Republicans - Everett Piper

In a recent interview with Stephen Colbert, former President Barack Obama said, 

“I’m worried about the Republican Party. … I’d love a loyal opposition. I’d love a Republican Party that is conservative in some ways, that didn’t agree with me on a whole bunch of stuff but believed in [the] rule of law, judicial independence and empirical evidence and science. … There has been a Republican Party like that in the past, and I want to see that return.”

Thus, Mr. Obama once again proved to be the master of what Sigmund Freud called “psychological projection.”
Projection is the art of attributing your own negative qualities, thoughts and actions to others. 

• In layman’s terms, it is the skill of the pot calling the kettle black, the tactic of accusing someone else of what you yourself are guilty of doing...

Let’s take the former president’s above statement and dissect it point by point...