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.
I don’t quite know why I should be scared...I won’t be here if he is “the one uniter.”
They’ve been singing backup for quite a while.
[but his “disciples” refuse to hear them]....;]
I’m listening to Quinn and Rose Morning show. They are talking about how scary this whole thing is. The whole messiah thing. They brought this up many months ago.
Some quotes they cited from celebrities:
George Clooney: “I would follow him anywhere”
Halle Berry: “I would pick up paper cups to clear a path for him”
What the!!!!
Where did he come from? Who is he? What has he accomplished? Why is he so mesmerizing to so many?
I can’t figure it out. He’s like Bill Clinton. He makes me sick to my stomach whenever I see him and hear him.
WAKE UP PEOPLE!!
Heck, those and a half a dozen more are probably already worked up and sitting on the shelf awaiting the right moment.
Nobody expects the Obamish Inquisition.
[and that’s meant as gallows humor, BTW...I can easily picture it coming]
Yeah, for sure. To those who have read the Left Behind series, does the name “Nicolae Carpathia” come to mind? He too was intelligent, charismatic, articulate, inspiring. He also was, alas, the Antichrist. Not drawing a corollary, just an observation that came to mind, that’s all....
I’d do it for the sake of sarcasm, if it weren’t so horribly close to the truth.
The seriously BAD “gut feeling” I get from him keeps me from making light of the “messiah” aspect.
I’m awake.
[and on watch]
Get ready to live in the Obama-Nation, folks. This slimy Marxist may well be our next Presidnt.
glad someone else put it into words because that is exactly whom i have been thinking of in seeing the way they speak of Obama!
The worship of this badly flawed, fallen man is proof positive that we are living in a time and in a nation where the natural consequences of decades of rejection of Jesus Christ are now playing out. When God said "the wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God", He did not give an exemption for America.
As I've said before, this adulation and worship is but a prelude of what is on the horizon. If people will fall so hard for a novice like Barak Obama, how much more so will they worship the Antichrist, who will be, after all, the father of lies and the first deceiver, personified?
We are living in a frightening time and a time that was foretold a long time ago. And if things are playing out so far like God said they would, it would be wise to read all the way to the last chapter and come to the realization that there is no hope and no salvation apart from the sacrifice that Jesus Christ made when He died for us.
God's eternal plan will be carried out, is in the process of working itself out, and, indeed, Jesus Christ is man's only hope and only way of salvation and the only One Who can provide deliverance from the wrath that is to come.
Not any man, and certainly not Barak Obama.
Media made Obama.. and media will control him. Behind all the.. Soros and his ilk. Scary what money can do in the wrong hands.
LOL! I like that. My own discription is "Generation A.D.D. (Attention Deficit Disorder)". I hope the best part of MommaObama-mania,is that Generation A.D.D. will lose interest by Nov.
Well, being that this string is addressing superstition; Obama is left-handed. Should he become POTUS #44, he will have become the 8th port-sider, along with James Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. I have read that about 5% of the general population is left handed. 8 of 44 is 18%. So, not a good omen for we conservatives...
The pure idiocy of Obama’s ascendancy can be seen in the difference between him and Dennis Kucinich. Dennis is a friendly little gnome who politics are almost indistinguishable from Obama’s. But Koochnik (as my wife calls him) barely drew fleas to his rallies and received only a few percentage points in the primary vote totals. I wonder where Obama would be if he was cast in the Koochnik physical mold. Even Dennis’s gorgeous wife couldn’t help him. Image is everything to the Donkey Party faithful.
I read the first half dozen of those books.....you nailed it.
LOL! She packaged that very well.
“I shouted out, who killed the Kennedys? When, after all, it was you and me.”
bttt
A few of the most universally-recognized signs of a cult:
LOADED LANGUAGE
Often, cults will “program” members with loaded language and doublespeak. By creating its own language, the group successfully isolates its members from non-members, who do not understand the cult jargon. This helps to foster an “us versus them” mentality.
DOUBLE STANDARD
A cult tends to have an ethical double standard, making it easier to control the group and deflect criticism.
CONVERSION TECHNIQUES
Conversion into a cult is done by dynamic interactions. They look for those who are new to the town or school, or the young. The easiest to involve someone is when they are weak and vulnerable they instantly become a potential recruit.
INNOVATIVE EXCLUSIVITY
Cults often appear to be innovative and exclusive. The leader claims to be breaking with tradition, offering something novel, and instituting the ONLY viable system for change that will solve life’s problems or the world’s ills.
MESSIAH COMPLEX OF LEADERSHIP
A cult’s leader is a self-appointed messianic person claiming to have a special mission in life. He/she relies on a system that is authoritarian in its power structure. The leader is regarded as the supreme authority.
SERVITUDE
A cult’s leader centers the veneration of members upon himself or herself, usually claiming it is for the “common good”.
DOMINANCE OF INCLUSIVENESS OVER LIFE
A cult’s leader tends to be determined, domineering, and charismatic. Such a leader can effectively persuade followers to abandon or alter their families, friends, and careers to follow the cult. The leader then takes control over followers’ possessions, money, time, and lives.
DISTORTED TITHING OR EXCESSIVE GIVING
More and more money is needed to attain higher degrees of spirituality.
A few of the most universally-recognized signs of a cult:
LOADED LANGUAGE
Often, cults will “program” members with loaded language and doublespeak. By creating its own language, the group successfully isolates its members from non-members, who do not understand the cult jargon. This helps to foster an “us versus them” mentality.
DOUBLE STANDARD
A cult tends to have an ethical double standard, making it easier to control the group and deflect criticism.
CONVERSION TECHNIQUES
Conversion into a cult is done by dynamic interactions. They look for those who are new to the town or school, or the young. The easiest to involve someone is when they are weak and vulnerable they instantly become a potential recruit.
INNOVATIVE EXCLUSIVITY
Cults often appear to be innovative and exclusive. The leader claims to be breaking with tradition, offering something novel, and instituting the ONLY viable system for change that will solve life’s problems or the world’s ills.
MESSIAH COMPLEX OF LEADERSHIP
A cult’s leader is a self-appointed messianic person claiming to have a special mission in life. He/she relies on a system that is authoritarian in its power structure. The leader is regarded as the supreme authority.
SERVITUDE
A cult’s leader centers the veneration of members upon himself or herself, usually claiming it is for the “common good”.
DOMINANCE OF INCLUSIVENESS OVER LIFE
A cult’s leader tends to be determined, domineering, and charismatic. Such a leader can effectively persuade followers to abandon or alter their families, friends, and careers to follow the cult. The leader then takes control over followers’ possessions, money, time, and lives.
DISTORTED TITHING OR EXCESSIVE GIVING
More and more money is needed to attain higher degrees of spirituality.
I wonder where Obama would be if he was cast in the Koochnik physical mold.
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It truly has become entertainment! I use to wonder the same thing about Elvis Presley, I am old enough to remember his first TV appearance and I am sure that he never would have gotten a start at all if he had been a short, fat, bald guy.
Elvis was quoted as saying that he never wanted to appear on the same stage with Roy Orbison because he knew Orbison was a much better singer. I once told my first wife that had Roy Orbison looked like Elvis and Elvis looked like Roy we would never have heard of Elvis Presley. Before somebody jumps on me I don’t mean to say Elvis had no talent, only that his looks opened the door for him, he never would have been nearly as successful with ordinary looks. All the little body language tricks he used to use on stage just would not have worked for an ordinary looking guy. On the other hand if Obama were not half black he would be no more successful than Kucinich, it really is pathetic to realize that his whole campaign depends on his skin tone, if he stepped on stage tomorrow with the same skin tone as RipSawyer everybody would yawn and go home. He would be just another skinny white dude with jug ears and nothing to say worth hearing.
Very apropos
A tactful person would have said to her: “I was on the show a few years ago, but I’d love to come back”.
Someone who wants to be president should know how to tactfully handle sticky situations and not embarrass people.
The Antichrist?
A most interesting individual, for sure.
Michelle Obama hasn’t said one thing about the US before the year 2007 that would make her proud to be a citizen of the greatest nation in the history of mankind that has placed her amongst the most privliged of the elite in this country.
I never thought that I would see a spouse of a presidential candidate who was more of a radical, narcissistic, arrogant, hubristic, self-entitled, and maddening solipsist than Hilary Clinton. To the nation’s dismay, I think we have found her.
The ascendency of BHO is the realization of the efforts of all the Cultural Marxists whose ideas were nurtered by the Gramcians who set up the Frankfurt School and spawned cultural radicals like Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, and Theodore Adorno. Their intellectual progeny are thoroughly ensconced in the MSM, academia, Hollywood, and most importantly in the George Soros directed modern day Democratic Party which is the nest for all the Vipers on the left, the racial identity determininists, the radical feminists, the sexual deviationist lobby, the “watermelon” environmentalists, the open borders crowd and the anti-war seditionists who seek to steal from our magnificent armed forces the victory that they have earned with their blood and valor in the SAME MANNER as they stole our hard earned victory from those of us who are Vietnam vets.
Their apotheosis is the religion of Obama, the Lucifer deciever who would lead this great nation to Fabian Socialist HELL!!!
Spread the word!!!
http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm
A black friend of mine shared the exact same response tonight before I even mentioned this subject. I still have faith in America to identify this man for what he is and to elect the right man for the job.
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