Posted on 02/22/2008 12:47:29 AM PST by bahblahbah
WASHINGTON -- Much has been made of the religious tenor of Barack Obama's presidential campaign.
Reports of women weeping and swooning -- even of an audience applauding when The One cleared his proboscis (blew his nose for you mortals) -- have become frequent events in the heavenly realm of Obi-Wan Obama.
His rhetoric, meanwhile, drips with hints of resurrection, redemption and second comings. "We are the ones we've been waiting for," he said on Super Tuesday night. And his people were glad.
Actually, they were hysterical, the word that best describes what surrounds this young savior and that may be more apt than we imagine. The word is derived from the Greek hystera, or womb. The ancient Greeks considered hysteria a psychoneurosis peculiar to women caused by disturbances of the uterus.
Well, you don't see any men fainting in Obi's presence.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
I prefer to think of it as ‘Generation E-Loi’
This messiah talk is becoming scary.
The reaction to the Obama effort is proof positive of two points: 1. Women should never have been granted the franchise. 2. The voting age should have been raised to 30 and not lowered to 18 back in the 60’s.
To offset this *just a little bit,* I heard something funny on Conan O’Brien’s show tonight.
Baba Walters was on, answering a question about which of the candidates she has met or interviewed. She was listing Shrillary, McCain, and so forth, not saying Obama.
Conan sort of interjected “What about Obama?”
Walters said she was embarrassed because she went up to him after a recent appearance he made somewhere and she asked him to “come on The View sometime.”
(That’s her morning talk show that Rosie O’Donnell and Star Jones mucked up. It’s flamingly liberal, except for Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who does her best, but gets shouted down.)
Obama said he had already been on The View.
Baba was flustered that she didn’t remember him. It had been 4 years ago, when he wrote a book.
She tried to cover herself and said it must have been one of the days when she wasn’t there (she only appears 1-2 days per week).
He said, “No, you were there.”
I don’t know how she ended it with him, but she was very embarrassed and now doesn’t think he will come on the show.
I think it’s very funny. His ego is so “outré” he was probably steaming. Mar 4th can’t come fast enough for me - when the Texas primaries and caucuses are over and his gazillions of $$ worth of TV ads will be gone.
Over and over, every 5 minutes, his yelling: “My mother died at 53 ...” “I wasn’t born rich. My father left me when I was young.”
Sounds like a high school kid, with his absent parents the only references on his résumé.
They have hope—hope about what the government is going to take from other people and give to them.
You ain't kidding. I'd like to know the messiah of what exactly. I'm not getting a good feeling.
"We are the ones we've been waiting for,"
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name
But whats puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me lucifer
cause Im in need of some restraint
So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or Ill lay your soul to waste, um yeah
I believe somebody else has to come first.
I agree.
The false prophet?
Oprah’s doing a fair job of that, I’d say.
[and I weep for my country that some no-talent twit with a sappy “talk show” will cheerfully lead the stupid sheep to slaughter]
The Messiah Complex: the Oprah/Obama/Course in Miracles Connection - Marianne Williamson teaches this the course on Oprah’s website to her Oprah’s followers
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marianne-williamson/my-journey-to-obama_b_81372.html
You are correct. The Obama cult is scary. I do not recall this type of conversation surrounding any other American politician in history.
“Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name
But whats puzzling you
Is the nature of my game”
Cue the lads: W-o-o, w-o-o w-o-o, w-o-o
Yet some will mock you for your observation.
“This messiah talk is becoming scary.”
No kidding. It’s even scarier that it is coming from anti-religious zealots. Be very, very afraid of fanatics who end up embracing something (religion, if you will) which they have condemned in others. Because Obamaism is in fact a cult, a fringe religion based strictly on emotion, an emotion that could easily get out of control, in that its true believers will not only allow their messiah to do anything he wants, but will fanatically support him in anything he does and who will lash out violently at anyone who questions those actions.
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