Is Barack Obama the Messiah? (Ben Shapiro RIPS Obama)

Creators Syndicate ^ | January 31, 2007 | Ben Shapiro

[UltraConservative]

Apparently, Senator Barack Hussein Obama, D-Illinois, is the Messiah. The New York Times reported on Sunday that in Obama's time at Harvard Law School, he "developed a leadership style based more on furthering consensus than on imposing his own ideas. Surrounded by students who enjoyed the sound of their own voices, Mr. Obama cast himself as an eager listener, sometimes giving warring classmates the impression that he agreed with all of them at once."

Also on Sunday, the Boston Globe reported, "These days, Obama is the hot new candidate for the White House, trying to end the warring in Washington with a warm message of unity and optimism. But years before taking that message to the national political stage, he was defusing battles large and small from the sharp-elbowed basketball games to the cutthroat classrooms at Harvard Law School." And on the same day, the Los Angeles Times similarly reported, "At Harvard Law Review he showed that -- on a much smaller scale -- he had the savvy to maneuver through turbulent political waters."

Jesus didn't get this kind of Sunday media coverage on Easter Sunday. It is no wonder Slate.com has a running Obama "Messiah Watch" dedicated to "considering evidence that Obama is the Son of God."

What has Obama done to earn such praise? He has no record. But he does have rhetoric -- the kind of rhetoric that makes people all warm and fuzzy inside.

In his much-heralded presidential exploratory committee announcement, Obama noted "how hungry we all are for a different kind of politics." And Obama says he is the man to take us beyond "the psychodrama of the baby boom generation -- a tale rooted in old grudges and revenge plots hatched on a handful of college campuses long ago -- played out on the national stage. The victories that the Sixties generation brought about -- the admission of minorities and women into full citizenship, the strengthening of individual liberties, and the healthy willingness to question authority -- have made America a far better place for all its citizens. But what has been lost in the process, and has yet to be replaced, are those shared assumptions -- that quality of trust and fellow feeling -- that bring us together as Americans."

This is the kind of rhetoric dreams are made of. Everyone is tired of the conflicts of the 1960s. But the conflicts of the 1960s are not tied to the era of their origin. The conflicts of the 1960s were a conflict between two sets of values: traditional values reflective of pre-1960s America, and the radical values of wholesale leveling and untrammeled libertinism.

The 1960s brought about some good, as Obama mentions -- most prominently, racial tolerance. And as a country, we have accepted the gains of the 1960s. We have continued to battle, however, over the idea that racial tolerance must come as part of a philosophical package that has more in common with the ideals of the French Revolution than the American Revolution.

Traditionalists maintain that desegregation need not entail smashing to shards a value system that has elevated Western civilization without perverting its moral sense. Radicals believe that racial segregation was but a symptom of an underlying disease inherent in traditional values. They believe that the disease can only be eradicated by attacking the foundational institutions of traditionalism -- the institutions of marriage and private property first and foremost.

In this culture war there can be no compromise. Either traditional values are vindicated, or they are eroded. There is no in-between. The quality of "trust and fellow feeling" of which Obama speaks cannot be regained as long as the culture war continues; our common ground has been lost. It will be regained only when one side emerges victorious. Obama's promises to move beyond the politics of the 1960s are, by definition, empty promises.

What is more, Obama knows they are empty promises. In the war between traditionalism and radicalism, Obama stands solidly with radicalism. Though he has a gift for obscuring his positions, Obama is an advocate of gay rights, a strong believer in the concept of private property as social property, an abortion-on-demand fanatic. His pledge to move beyond the politics of the 1960s is a pledge to achieve unity in the fully triumphant program of the 1960s. If Obama is a Messiah, he is a secular Messiah, preaching the word of Tom Hayden.

[UltraConservative]

Great stuff.

[Always Right]

Apparently, Senator Barack Hussein Obama, D-Illinois, is the Messiah. The New York Times reported on Sunday that in Obama's time at Harvard Law School

Bush went to Harvard....

[Long Island Pete]

What has Obama done to earn such praise?

He a gave a speech at the DNC? That's all I can think of.

[silverleaf]

a leadership style based more on furthering consensus than on imposing his own ideas

A real go-along guy. Just what we need in the USA. A leader who says "I must hurry to stay ahead of my men so I can lead them!"

[gunnyg]

Hey--it's not funny--they elected (twice) Bill & Hillary didn't "they"!!!!!
-G
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[YOUGOTIT]

Covert prophet of Allah!

[cgk]

[DB]

If we wanted to be ruled by 500+ peoples combined consensus we would just have congress run the place and not have a president.

Presidents are supposed to have an opinion. They are supposed to lead. Not just stick their finger in the air and see which ways things are going that day.

[roses of sharon]

Too many on Freerepublic believe that the MSM are dying.

When just the opposite is true, they are coalescing, conspiring, coordinating, and cooperating more and more with each other, Hollywood, Academia, Madison Ave, the DNC, the judiciary, leftwing international gov and their media, the UN, the Islamic cults, ect.

The only thing good is as they get more and more bold and obvious in their delirium, it makes them vulnerable to exposure.

If only we had the smarts on our side to fight back, now would be a spectacular time, with plenty of evidence to ruin them, one by one.

[NATH]

" Great Stuff."

I thought this was a conservative website. I know I'm new here but: private property to social property, abortion on demand. The guy is a communist.

[UltraConservative]

Did you actually read the article? Shapiro is indicting Obama for his radical leftism.

[Obie Wan]

Barak Obama or Hillary Clinton. Even John McCain looks good compared to either one of these slimeballs !!!

[kitkat]

BUMP

[OB1kNOb]

Someone check Obama-Damien's hairline for three sixs, please.

[sportutegrl]

Obama is peaking waaaaaay too soon. Even the besotted media can't keep up this lovefest forever. Eventually Obama fatigue will set in and he will be another flash in the pan like Loud Howard.

[ilgipper]

Obama will likely follow in the foot steps of these other 'next Bill Clintons' of the democrat(ic) party:

Gray Davis (booted from office)
John Edwards (one termer)

Ever since '92, the media has been seeking their next superstar, but they build them up too soon so they kill their careers early.

[Gritty]

[lqclamar]

It is no wonder Slate.com has a running Obama "Messiah Watch" dedicated to "considering evidence that Obama is the Son of God."

It's safe to say that God isn't a Unitarian flower child or a polygamist wifebeating jihadi. Obama's parents were though, ergo Obama cannot be the son of God.

[devolve]

Hmmmmmmm

'Toon

[BuffaloJack]

The Messiah?
Geez, I hope not.
He's a liberal dem.
Anti-Christ maybe.

[potlatch]

Thanks, if you have any animation ideas, tell me, lol!

[devolve]

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[potlatch]

Lol, very good post devolve.

Hearts Made Of Stone, do da wah.......... Would also be appropriate for her, lol!!

[Terriergal]

I can't get to the Slate page to see what ridiculous stuff they have there. It seems to be down. But whether or not it's 'tongue in cheek' who would have thought this was even a decent idea to put out there? What an Obamanation.

[Terriergal]

Covert prophet of Allah!

I wouldn't be surprised. Being a Muslim probably doesn't preclude membership in the United Church of Christ.

[Terriergal]

PING!

[devolve]

That cheered you up!


Good thinking!

"Hearts Made Of Stone"

Yes - I'll have to dig that one up
Also her "joke" about "bad men" in Iowa

I'll match colors perhaps and maybe put both together on a variation

[potlatch]

I'll look in my music files and see if I have it.

Your post looks very good!!

[goldstategop]

In other words, Barack Obama is a dyed-in-the-wool socialist. But people don't care because he gives them warm and fuzzy feelings.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[aruanan]

The victories that the Sixties generation brought about -- the admission of minorities and women into full citizenship, the strengthening of individual liberties, and the healthy willingness to question authority -- have made America a far better place for all its citizens.

Women and minorities were full citizens long, long before the Sixties generation even knew what a joint was. Up until the beginning of the Sixties, the ethnic group with the fastest economic development of any was that of American blacks. It was brought to a screeching halt by the racial politics of the War on Poverty, a program designed to keep blacks on the Democrat political plantation. Remember that as far back as Reconstruction blacks were entering political life and serving in various elected positions in both local and state governments. The Great Compromise of 1877, a compromise of Republican moderates with Southern Democrats, destroyed that shining start in the South for a hundred years. In the 1960s, as in the 1860s, it was up to the Republicans to stand for Civil Rights.

Individual liberties were not strengthened by the Sixties generation. Their politics have led, instead, to the development of intrusive government combined with high tech oppression combined with the idiocies of political correctness. As far as the "healthy willingness to question authority" goes, the Founding Fathers did that one better. They not merely questioned authority, they successfully challenged it and overthrew it in order to establish liberty. The Sixties generation have traded that in for the liberty to curse in public, to burn the flag, to be obscene, to try to regulate everyone's lives in energy use, and (they haven't gotten this one yet) to indulge every drug-related urge. As a result of Sixties generation environmental wackiness combined with anti-business, we've seen over a billion people sicken from malaria and over two hundred million die die from the disease. We've seen hundreds of billions of dollars being spent to combat a climate menace that doesn't exist. America is far from being a far better place for all its citizens as a result of the Sixties generation. The world is far from being a better place.

[atcandles]

I was thinking the same thing. Here is a copy of an email that I have gotten twice and I don’t know if we could ever find out the truth about the entire thing, but personally I believe the email.... and here it is

Subject : FW: Who is Barack Obama?

This certainly unsettling to know....

>> Who is Barack Obama?
>! >
>>
>> Probable U. S. presidential candidate, Ba rack Hussein Obama was
>> born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a black Muslim
>> from Nyangoma-Kogel, Kenya and Ann Dunham, a white atheist from
>> Wichita,Kansas. Obama’s parents met at the University of Hawaii.
>> When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced. His father
>> Returned to Kenya.
>> His mother then married Lolo Soetoro, a radical Muslim From Indonesia.
>> When Obama was 6 years old, the family relocated to Indonesia.
>> Obama attended a Muslim school in Jakarta.
>> He also spent two years in a Catholic school.
>> Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim.
>> He Is quick to point out that, “He was once a Muslim, but that
>> he also attended Catholic school. “
>> Obama’s political handlers are attempting to make it appear
>> that Obama’s introduction to Islam came via his father, and that this>> influence was temporary at best. In reality, the senior Obama returned to
>> Kenya soon after the divorce, and never again had any direct influence
>> over His son’s
>> education. Lolo Soetoro, the second husband of Obama’s mother, Ann
>> Dunham,
>> introduced his stepson to Islam. Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in
>> Jakarta. Wahabism is the radical teaching that is followed by the Muslim
>> terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world.
>> Since it is politically expedient to be a Christian when seeking
>> Major public office in the United States, Barack Hussein Obama has joined
>> the United Church of Christ in an attempt to downplay his Muslim
>> background.
>>
>> Let us all remain alert concerning Obama’s expected presidential
>> candidacy. Please forward to everyone you know. The Muslims have said
>&! gt; they plan on destroying the US from the inside out, what better wa y to
>> start than at the highest level.
>>
>>