Posted on 06/06/2009 5:50:33 AM PDT by Keltik
Newsweek editor Evan Thomas brought adulation over President Obama’s Cairo speech to a whole new level on Friday, declaring on MSNBC: "I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God."
Thomas, appearing on Hardball with Chris Matthews, was reacting to a preceding monologue in which Matthews praised Obama’s speech: "I think the President's speech yesterday was the reason we Americans elected him. It was grand. It was positive. Hopeful...But what I liked about the President's speech in Cairo was that it showed a complete humility...The question now is whether the President we elected and spoke for us so grandly yesterday can carry out the great vision he gave us and to the world."
"So Obama’s had, really, a different task We're seen too often as the bad guys. And he – he has a very different job from – Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is ‘we are above that now.’ We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial."
Thomas elaborated on Obama as God, patronizingly explaining: "He's going to bring all different sides together...Obama is trying to sort of tamper everything down. He doesn't even use the word terror. He uses extremism. He's all about let us reason together...He's the teacher. He is going to say, ‘now, children, stop fighting and quarreling with each other.’ And he has a kind of a moral authority that he – he can – he can do that." In response, Matthews wondered: "If there's a world election between him and Osama Bin Laden, he's running a good campaign." Thomas agreed: "Yes, he is."
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Ok, he’s the Anti-Christ.
Good grief! Do these people even listen to themselves?? Are the producers of these shows and the execs so enamored with their “god” that they can’t see how ridiculous this is???
amazing to see this “cult of personality” like what they whipped up for Stalin, etc. nauseating.
Wow. Blind are the masses who bow to a false god.
How can any thinking human being take these people seriously?
Hitler was treated as “some sort of God”, too. We need to point out the danger of this blather before Matthews and Thomas further corrupt the public.
Obama is not a god. He is a southside Chicago politician who, by great good fortune, managed to get to the White House.
It must be something in the water in DC.
Careful there: these kinds of words are reserved for only the "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il.
Goodness these are the very same people who excoriated President Bush's statement about how he follows the wisdom of God in the things that he does.
Now they are saying Obama is "Sorta like God"?
Good grief these people have lost their minds!
Kim jung ill is also a God, just ask anyone in North Korea.
yup. he is the Antichrist. yup.
And just like Kim Jung, Obama will transform his country into a paradise too.
I can’t say it enough but these clowns have no intention of imposing the laws and traditions of mere mortals on their “god”. Just watch, they’ll try to get him installed as dear leader for life.
Evan Thomas is “sort of stupid”.
Bad link or bad web page. All I see are the ads.
Godless leftists are always looking for humans to worship, invariably America-despising communists. B.O. fits the bill perfectly.
I'm just a little freaked out to find myself suddenly part of a giant historical re-enactment!
Here is tape from Breitbart of Evan Thomas of Newsweek’s statements on the Charlie Rose Show…with commentary provided by Rush Limbaugh. By the way, Evan Thomas is Editor-at-Large of Newsweek.
He’s not God, but the thing that makes me think he might be the anti-Christ is what you say: “He is a southside Chicago politician who, by great good fortune, managed to get to the White House.”
Nobody outside of Chicago had ever even heard of Obama before (well, other than a brief appearance at the DNC when Gore was running). How the heck did a nobody like him end up, not only in the White House, but running all over the world claiming to be its leader, not only political but spiritual - and BEING ACCEPTED AS SUCH to great acclaim?
It makes absolutely no sense.
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