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Originally Posted by redwitch

Sorry, Russ, I still think James has more talent. He can hold a note, he can sing a ballad. Good songwriters are pretty easy to find, so, if James picks the right talent, I do think he can go further than Daughtry (and I liked him a lot on AI, too). And I'm still not sure I'm going to bother watching it any more this season. Just doesn't seem right that James is out and Lauren is in.

I really didn't see that James was becoming cocky. More confident, yes. Remember, that besides Tourette's, he also has Asperger's. Most Aspies come across as arrogant, not because they are but because they don't have the necessary social graces. In reality, most Aspies are pretty insecure -- it's hard when you never know if you're going to say something that will offend another regardless of your intent. Add Tourette's to the mix and you have to have a young man with enough insecurities to choke a horse. To hear you are good and have it confirmed has got to make you a little more confident and perhaps make you look cocky, but there's too much underlying pain and insecurity to really let you be as arrogant as you might appear.

I agree with you 100 %