Posted on 02/27/2008 12:25:14 PM PST by Shermy
Given the content of the article, that was likely intentional:
Thus, in post-Judeo-Christian America, the sports club is the new church. Global warming is the new religion. Vegetarianism is the new sacrament. Hooking up, the new prayer. Talk therapy, the new witnessing. Tattooing and piercing, the new sacred symbols and rituals.
And apparently, Barack Obama is the new messiah.
Here's how a 20-year-old woman in Seattle described that Obama feeling: “When he was talking about hope, it actually almost made me cry. Like it really made sense, like, for the first, like, whoa. ...”
Like, whoa, man... it's like, the Age of Aquarius!
Watch the movie, “Idiocracy”
Simply full of progressives.
I’m not sure I care for this line of thinking.
Everyone accused GW of using religious, born-again over-tones in the election, with the wars, etc. They also suggested that GW had biblical illusions of grandour regarding his personal role in fighting evil, etc.
Sen Obama uses empty, political retoric in a very smart way. I don’t see a deep conspiracy here, as much as smart politics, at least so far. This could easily come back on him as his real positions become known. I only hope our side can bring this to the fore, to the point that the press can no longer ignore it.
Somewhere between rock star and some evangelical guru is what people want.
America looks too much for religion, entertainment and celebrity, even spiritual uplifting in her politicans.
I view the whole Obama phenomenon as “searching for love in all the wrong places”.
Politicians are far better suited to being looked upon as rather more base and normal; good for getting practical things done - roads, schools, wars, actual measurable benefits for the common weal(yes, an ideal) rather than, say, steroids in baseball or in the case of Obama, the transposition onto one individual of wholesale, indiscriminate adoration more like the reverence and devotion heaped upon some maharishi guru type than to the exercise of power, the latter inevitably leading to a widespread disillusionment as the prerogatives of reality intrude upon skyhigh aspirations and outlandish hopes, widespread and all encompassing without being clearly defined.
yah
All been done before...
Who will actually ask him such questions?
Agree 100%.
But I know the feeling. I also get it every time I see Elliott spitzer. There's just something bad bad wrong.
And apparently, Barack Obama is the new messiah.
Kathleen Parker is a brilliant writer.
If only the world still cherished good thinkers.
Very good comments.
I thought this article was one of the best written and funniest I’ve read about Obama.
I’ve been watching Oprah this afternoon (gasp).
She’s pushing “A new world”, a weepy world changing neo-mythology.
No wonder she supports Obama.
It’s Buddhallah wants us to be happy socialists.
I’ve been thinking the same thing. Not to be graphic, but an orgasm only lasts for so long. I predict people won’t be as excited for him come November.
People may think I am nuts, but I keep telling them there is something wrong with this guy. Something is off, call it the cult of Obama if you will, but it is sickening.”
God’s commandment comes to mind......”You shall have no other gods ...”
"Actually, they were hysterical, the word that best describes what surrounds this young savior and that may be more apt than we imagine."
When I think that Al Gore and John Kerry both dueled George Bush to a virtual draw. I’m not looking forward to this election cycle. It’s going to take a real miracle.
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