Posted on 02/10/2008 7:43:16 PM PST by bahblahbah
IT was early 1994 when Nelson Mandela gave a speech in a slum outside Cape Town and spoke in grand terms of a new beginning and how when he was elected president every household would have a washing machine. People took him literally. A few months later he became South Africa's first black president. That's when clerks in department stores in Cape Town had to turn people away demanding their free washer and dryer.
Having spent some time as a reporter in South Africa watching the Mandela presidency I was reminded of that story this week when I travelled with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on the campaign trail.
How does a cult figure, in the eyes of some something akin to a messiah, make the transition to a political frontrunner - president even - where disappointment will soon crush what seemed to be a journey to a promised land?
Looking into the faces of a more than 16,000-strong crowd in a basketball stadium in Hartford, Connecticut this week, the Mandela magic I'd seen before was there too. Black and white, and the youth; they appeared in a state close to rapture watching Obama speak. Here and there one could see women crying and the some men wiping away tears too.
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In the absence of believing in God, many liberals are looking for their Messiah... Obama may just be it.
“In the absence of believing in God, many liberals are looking for their Messiah”
And the false “messiah” will come before the real One.
These Obama supporters are very scary indeed. There is that look as if he was the Second Coming of the Messiah.
Two quotes from G.K. Chesterson: 1/Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God. 2/Once people stop believing in God they don’t believe in nothing; they will believe anything.
He is actually something quite different..
You’re kidding; right?
Looking like were going to have an obamanation. I’d actually prefer Hillary to him.
I will take Hillary vs this really Manchurian socialist candidate.
I would take her over Obama too. I am surprised that you would otherwise. Obama is very dangerous. The Clinton’s are too but less so. Hillary is closer to the right than Obama is and that is not saying much, but it is true. We will be in very bad shape if Obama gets the Presidency.
That is one extremely disturbing website.
The people being quoted don’t sound like “fans”; they sound possessed.
We don’t know anything about him, and many are flocking to his banner because he is “change.” History has shown that often change isn’t a good thing.
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