Messiah In Our Midst. The One, the Anointed

NRO ^ | June 06, 2008 | Jonah Goldberg

[Tolik]

Is Barack Obama the Messiah?

Before we answer that question, let me vent for a moment. In 2000 I was cruelly denied the Pulitzer despite being the only columnist in America to ask the pressing question: Is Al Gore an alien? The evidence was there for all to see. He was born nine months after the mysterious alien sighting at Roswell, N.M. His weird syntax and verbal rhythms are otherworldly. He often refers to “earth” or “this planet” as if he’s just passing through, and he once angrily complained to the Washington Post that it had printed a picture of the earth from outer space “upside down.”

There is no “upside down” in space — unless Gore had his childhood view in mind.

At least I’m not in the wilderness this time. Lots of people have pondered the possibility that Barack is our Divine Redeemer. There are websites dedicated to the question “Is Barack Obama the Messiah?” Google that question and you’ll get more than 35,000 hits. (Enter just the words “Messiah” and “Obama” and you’ll get nearly 10 times that.)

But there’s more concrete evidence. Since Obama declared his candidacy, there have been remarkably few biblical plagues. And lions and lambs seem open to bilateral negotiations.

Obama’s apostles are hard to dismiss. Oprah simply calls him “The One,” because “we need politicians who know how to be the truth.” (Jesus says in John 14:6 “I am the way, the truth ...”) Oprah goes on to say Obama will help us “evolve to a higher plane,” which would put Obama in the role of our Intelligent Designer.

According to the New York Times, Obama’s volunteers are taught to eschew discussions of the issues and instead “testify” about how they “came to Obama.”

For many, he’s no retro-redeemer, but a 21st-century savior, a Matrix-messiah and Neo for our modern-day Nineveh. Self-help guru Deepak Chopra dubs Obama “a quantum leap in American consciousness,” while prominent “leadership coach” Eve Konstantine assures us that, “He’s our product out of the all-knowing quantum field of intelligence.”

Obama willing, I will never be stuck next to these people on a plane.

Michelle Obama is arguably Obamanity’s greatest evangelist, even though she has a streak of Old Testament smiting and wrath to her. She insists her husband has redeemed the entire nation (hence her newfound pride in America). She proclaims her husband is the sort of leader who will fix our broken souls. But don’t hope for grace on the cheap. “The change Barack is talking about is hard,” she insists, “so don’t get too excited, because Barack is going to demand that you, too, be different.”

Those of you who thought we had a Second Amendment to keep government from fixing your soul are so 20th century. Evolve already.

And then there’s the Gospel according to Obama himself. In January, he told Dartmouth students that they will know to vote for him because “... a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany, and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Barack.”

When asked in an interview what sin is, Obama defined it as “Being out of alignment with my values.” Apparently, the editor failed to capitalize the “M” in “My.”

But such mistakes can be forgiven, for Hillary has been cast out and the nomination is nigh. So we can get cracking on fixing America — and ourselves.

“I am absolutely certain,” Obama proclaimed in his victory speech, “that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs for the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal. This was the moment — this was the time — when we came together to remake this great nation ...”

Now, if you’re under the mistaken impression that sick people had some care, or that a few jobs were to be found prior to June 2008, or that maybe — just maybe — the oceans don’t rise and fall with the election returns, or that America itself doesn’t need “remaking,” you’re not one of the “ones we’ve been waiting for.”

But you might be one of the ones Al Gore has been waiting for. You’d understand if you realized “Earth in the Balance” is a cookbook.

— Jonah Goldberg is the author of Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning.
 

[Resolute Conservative]

I do not recall my Messiah smoking or promoting racism. SO he is no the Messiah just a snake oil salesman.

[Tolik]

...And then there’s the Gospel according to Obama himself. In January, he told Dartmouth students that they will know to vote for him because “... a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany, and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Barack.”

When asked in an interview what sin is, Obama defined it as “Being out of alignment with my values.” Apparently, the editor failed to capitalize the “M” in “My.”

...“I am absolutely certain,” Obama proclaimed in his victory speech, “that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs for the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal. This was the moment — this was the time — when we came together to remake this great nation ...”

 

WOW, just WOW!

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[Reagan Man]

Humans have always been fond of myths and mythology.

Modern mankind is no different.

[ClearCase_guy]

There are websites dedicated to the question “Is Barack Obama the Messiah?” Google that question and you’ll get more than 35,000 hits.

On the other hand, if you google "is obama the anti-christ" you get only 16,000 hits.

[Red Badger]

Not a Messiah. Just a Mess.................

[freespirited]

He is not the Messiah, but he clearly has messianic delusions.

[JackRyanCIA]

“Is Barack Obama the Messiah?”

Jonah, he is definitely the damned Antichrist.

[Boagenes]

No, he's not the Messiah, but I'm beginning to believe he might just be the Anti-Christ...can't really say why...maybe it has something to do with s--- like this:

[Roscoe Karns]

[F15Eagle]

When asked in an interview what sin is, Obama defined it as “Being out of alignment with my values.” Apparently, the editor failed to capitalize the “M” in “My.”

Good tongue-in-cheek assessment of Obama's messianic delusions. Of course, it would be funnier if there weren't large groups of idiots who actually believe in this clown.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Somewhere, a failed rocket scientist is writing a “poll” question that asks, “Did Bari and Michelle’s cute little “fist bump” at their “victory” rally change your mind about voting for that evil Republican, John McCain?”

[i_dont_chat]

He’s a Marxist, and he is a racist.

[EternalVigilance]

I’ve been critical of Jonah at times, but this is a great piece of writing.

Of course the subject matter is frightening.

[JimC214]

Al Bore comes from the planet known as Moronica. Where he is the head moron.

[woollyone]

But if you google "obama" and "antitchrist", you get

...a whopping 807,000 hits

[yooling]

It makes no difference what he says or does.

[Boagenes]

I definitely believe he has come to believe his own bulls---. I found this one on another web site:

"And he was transfigured before them; and His face shone like the sun. And his garments became as white as light. -- Matthew 17:2"

[stockpirate]

Actually I never thought I would live to witness this type of MAN running for the highest office in our land.

Sad part is we all know what happens to Messisahs, history is packed full with examples.

My question is what happens to all of us who will not yield our souls to the Obama followers and become believers?

Those capitolists in Nazi Germany that resisted Hitler and his Socialist followers were lead to the “reeducation camps” where they were used for forced labor and experiments and when their usefullness was all used up, put to death.

I will have to ask for forgiveness as I am not very well suited for reeducation at this point in my life and will not yield to them at all.

God help us all.

[bronxboy]

My wife, normally a rational person, is almost like Jonah states. She personally gets angry if anyone criticizes the Obamarama. She actually believes he is the only hope for America and if he is not elected we will go to war, have a depression and have bread lines. It is to the point now where me or my children do not even utter his name, or if a newscast says something bad about him, we change the channel. It is actually kind of scary.

[SaxxonWoods]

Barack’s arrival at the Democrat convention will be his Palm Sunday.

Who will play the Pharisees in this story?

Who will play Pontius Pilate?

Will it be “Give us Barabass” in November, or in Denver?

[brownsfan]

” ... She personally gets angry if anyone criticizes the Obamarama. She actually believes he is the only hope for America...”

Wow. Good luck to you. If I were in your shoes, I’m not sure my marriage would survive.
I barely speak to my brother over similar stupidity.

[Tolik]

I think Jonah’s writing improved in the last years (I mean from a literary point of view). He is more disciplined and more on target. Of course, as any opinion writer, he is not going to express opinions that get 100% approval even by allies. Sometimes, I have to shrug and move on.

Of course, the subject matter here would be hilarious, from the pages of Onion, if it was not so frightening.

[Boagenes]

You can find the answer to your question, “what happens to all of us who will not yield our souls to the Obama followers and become believers?” in the book of Revelation. Starts in around Chapter 9 or 10, as I recall, and it’s not a pretty picture.

[F15Eagle]

lol

[Boagenes]

Yes, I wouldn’t be surprised to see them lay palm branches at his feet as he rides in on a donkey.

[Tolik]

I always wondered how people like Mary Matalin and James Carville live together. They are not just members of opposite parties, but active politically, spokesmen at times.

How do you do it?

[Owl_Eagle]

“Is Barack Obama the Messiah?”

Twelfth Imam is more like it.

[FreedomPoster]

>>According to the New York Times, Obama’s volunteers are taught to eschew discussions of the issues and instead “testify” about how they “came to Obama.”

Does anyone have a reference on that!?

[Centurion2000]

Is Barack Obama the Messiah?

Questions like these immediately make me think that we are headed into the Abyss.

[musicman]

[Farmer Dean]

Maybe,just maybe,he’s both a Marxist and a racist.

[Centurion2000]

Yes, I wouldn’t be surprised to see them lay palm branches at his feet as he rides in on a donkey.

He is way too arrogant to arrive riding a donkey. Now a black charger? That would be him.

[SaxxonWoods]

I’m tempted to draw palm fronds (in chalk) on the sidewalk in front of the Convention Center in Denver just prior to the convention, but security will probably be too tight.

[FreedomPoster]

That’s a great article. And it has no place on this thread, and you’re overposting it.

[Billthedrill]

Aw, heck - the reason Goldberg didn't get the Pyoolitzer for asking whether Algore is an alien is that they don't award that prize for questions to which the answer is clearly "well, duh!"

As for B. Hussein Obama, there is clearly a thirst among the highly imaginative who consider the Bush "regime" to be the most oppressive since Hoxha's Albania for some sort of messianic figure to lead them to some sort of Promised Land, defined only by empty platitudes and yearnings for every noble abstraction in the dictionary. They're due for a serious disappointment no matter who attains office. That sort of passion is only sustainable by a concerted effort by both media and believer to deny the cold facts on the ground, such as whether oral sex is actually sex or what the actual semantic content of "is" turns out to be. The real problem with trips to political Disneyland is that somebody always has to pay for the ticket. I can feel it coming like the cool breeze up the back of the medical gown just before the Doc tells you to spread 'em...

[vpintheak]

That is a real campaign poster? Unbelievable!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

He is not the first.

I remember seeing a political poster in 1976 of a bearded man in a robe with the initials J.C. over it. The reference was to Jesus Christ but the person on the poster was Jimmy Carter.

[bronxboy]

This time it is easier because I can not stand McCain. I just try to avoid it as much as possible. I will let this run its course.

[WOSG]

Better question: Is Obama a Marxist?

There is enough evidence to suggest some of his friend radicalism has rubbed off on him...

http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2008/06/05/delay-unless-obama-proves-me-wrong-he-is-a-marxist/

Explaining that Obama clinching the Democratic nomination is a good thing for John McCain, DeLay said Obama’s “weakness” is that “nobody knows him.”

“And if McCain does not define him as what he is — hey, I have said publicly, and I will again, that unless he proves me wrong, he is a Marxist,” DeLay said.

The radio host agreed with DeLay, who is facing money laundering charges, saying Obama is “desperately trying to cover up what seems to be the kind of old school Marxist radical liberal failed ideology.”

“Absolutely,” DeLay said. “No doubt about it.”

Comments:

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well, it’s about time a person with intellect, professionalism and integrity states the fact; bho is a classical marxist. right on! taking wealth from the productive and giving it to the fat, lazy, stupid, unproductive, whores and uneducated. hey, that’s makes sense!

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The left in this country does not care the Obama is a Marxist. If you watch these comments they will either 1) denounce Delay to divert the issue, or 2) go to the other extreme and say Obama can’t be a Marxist because he hasn’t tried to seize all the property yet.

Unfortunately many, perhaps most, on the left are actually into socialism. So even if they realize it’s true, they’ll deny it to get Obama elected.

However, no one on the left is willing to debate his stance on the issues, point by point, to see just how much he leans towards socialism in nearly everything he believes.

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Maxine Waters said she wants to socialize the oil industry. Obama said we can’t keep our thermostats at 72 degrees or eat all we want. Oh, really??? Says who?? THAT my friends = Marxist thinking.

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So many liberals try and say Obama is not a Marxist and that we don’t know what a Marxist is, here’s a few pieces of Marxism that fits Obama…
a belief that capitalism is based on the exploitation[4] of workers by the owners of capital (Obama and his church certainly agree with this)

a view of history according to which class struggle, the evolving conflict between classes with opposing interests, structures each historical period and drives historical change(this is a major piece of black liberation theology, which Obama has participated in for the past 20 years)

Marxism may be a bit strong, but many feel Marxism is a form of socialism, and there is no doubt that Obama is a socialist

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Obama is not a Marxist he’s a Socialist. Just like the whole Democratic Party. The Liberals who post on here just call names and cannot justify their position with facts. Look at the speach he gave last weekend at a college in Conneticut. He speaks of the collective.
Check out the 10 pillars of communism Obama fits the following:
1.A heavy progressive or graduated income tax
2.Abolition of all rights of inheritance
3. Equal liablity of all to labor. Establishment of Industrial armies, especially for agriculture
PRO UNION
4.Free education for all children in government schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. etc
5. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan Nationalize Oil industry

After all these socialists countries fail and are going back to more capitolistic ideas France England.
Why do the Democrats think their Liberal Socialist ideas will work here.

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Democrats ruined this country twice, why would anyone give them a third try?

And look at almost every major city or state run by Democrats…disasters. Michigan is a disaster under Democrats. California a disaster with the Democratic legislature. Los Angeles, Philly, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit…all Democrat led, all disasters. Look at Louisiana and New Orleans and their response to Katrina…the people actually their first…all Democrats…total disaster!

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Bob, we’re already heading that way. Out here in California, I don’t even recognize the state I have lived in for over 30 years. It is NOTHING like the state it was when I came here.

Education is a joke now, it was top ten 30 years ago. Crime is horrible. State’s in debt. Taxes through the roof. And low and behold we’ve had a Democrat Legislature, far far far left, for the last 20 years. Gee….correlation? I think so.

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DeLay is right. First off name one thing Obama has done? He is the product of great marketing. His message is about hope, hope for what? The hope that he’ll raise taxes, create even more spending, invite dictators to the White House? This man has done a great thing rising as he has. That however is the only thing he has done. Obama is our nations biggest problem. He will lead us down a path of distruction. The 1st thing he wants to do is nationalize health care. Does the American population not realize our goverment can’t run anything! When was the last time you went the the DMV? That’s what it will be like going to your doctor if Obama and his socialist fiends will bring to our nation. Everone needs to look long and hard at the things Obama wants to do to us (for the greater good) Sounds like a Marxist to me!

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Tom Delay has his problems for sure. However, read OBAMA’s book the man is a marxist out of his own mouth. He could also be considered a socialist as well by some of his other far left ideas. Either way those views are Anti-American. Period. We are a capitolist fedralist society. We have been for over 2oo years! Me, I want to stay on top of the world and have my rights stay as they are and not changed to meet the poltically correct nonsense we have to live in. Now, you are either for that or you are not. If you are not that is fine but take your stuff and move to Cuba, Russia, Canada, or whatever. Just leave only Americans live in the states. I have seen much of the world and I can tell you that the USA is the best place to live. At this point I would rather die than vote for a Liberal. I have had too many friends die in combat for our flag to dishonor them.

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Obama, whose father was a practicing Muslim and whose mother was a radical Marxist, has stated that his mother: “Was the dominant figure in my formative years; and, the values she taught me continue to be my touchstone in the world of politics”. Common sense deductive reasoning suggests that Obama’s rearing as a child, and his extended 20yr relationships, and obvious conformity, with anti-American fanatics such as Rev. Wright ( the Pastor of his church that promoted the doctrine of Louis Farrakhan ) , and Frank Davis and William Ayers, etc., etc., are in fact reflective of Obama’s true psychological makeup. A conclusion rigidly re-enforced by Obama’s San Francisco commentary denigrating folks from small-town America. Obama’s affinity for questionable associates such as Tony Rezco, a convicted felon, raises a myriad of questions. Further, his increasingly frequent petulant responses to legitimate criticism is troubling. This man’s refusal to wear an American flag lapel pin and to place his hand over his heart on the singing of our National Anthem are conditioned reflexes from his protracted association with disaffected elements in our society; visual images that Obama is certain to attempt to obfuscate in future campaign appearances; even though, he has openly admitted: “I didn’t want to offend Muslims and others who don’t like America.”. Obama is our “home-grown” version of Hugo Chavez. Further, Michelle Obama’s angry commentary directed at our country is telling. Fifty-seven (57) State Obama’s comments that he would use U.S. Military Forces against Pakistan, a Nation with a sizable nuclear arsenal, and an ally in the war on terror, even without President Musharraf’s permission; a Nation that he mistakenly believed to be Arab; his indecision/confusion as to whether Iran poses a serious regional threat; while in other commentary, stating that he would halt the U.S. military’s development of advanced weapons systems demonstrates a profound ignorance of the geopolitical threat environment confronting America. His long-term subversive associations, and his immersion in seditious diatribe have indeed revealed Obama as the real-life Manchurian Candidate.

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on the Lib side:

Barack Obama is a good and decent honest man with superior political skills. He has a unique ability to inspire people and elevate the plane of political discourse. With him we will never see rendition, torture, and the slaughter of habeus corpus.

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Hussein Obama is the son of a white trash Marxist and a black Muslim. He married an anti-American left winger and sat for twenty years in a church listening to the ranting of Rev. Wright. When he announced for President he had his buddy, a known terrorist bomber, sitting in the room.

Wow, sounds like the guy we want picking our Supreme Court Justices.

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over 1000 comments ... and here is the key - NOT A SINGLE COMMENT REALLY DISPROVED THAT OBAMA IS A LEFTWINGER. They quibbled over marxist v socialist and attacked the messenger.

[Tolik]

I think way too many people who would habitually laugh at the personality cults of Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il are in a desperate need of a mirror.

[mnehrling]

...“I am absolutely certain,” Obama proclaimed in his victory speech, “that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs for the jobless;

Wow, what a slap to all liberals who claim they have been doing this for a century. Is Obama admitting that the Democrats/Liberals have failed for all these years?

[BnBlFlag]

Stop being a pussy and stand up to her!

[STE=Q]

“Who will play the Pharisees in this story?

Who will play Pontius Pilate?

Will it be ‘Give us Barabass’ in November, or in Denver?”

ROTFLMAO!!!

[Sig Sauer P220]

To brain dead zombies, he truly is the Messiah.

[brownsfan]

“Stop being a pussy and stand up to her!”

You got the wrong guy.
Classy post. Nicely done.

[Tolik]

I think all these Obama-obsessed people have a steely conviction that a synonym of stupid is Bush. Somebody needs a MIRROR...

[Sig Sauer P220]

My wife, normally a rational person, is almost like Jonah states. She personally gets angry if anyone criticizes the Obamarama. She actually believes he is the only hope for America and if he is not elected we will go to war, have a depression and have bread lines. It is to the point now where me or my children do not even utter his name, or if a newscast says something bad about him, we change the channel. It is actually kind of scary.

Divorce her. Divorce her NOW!. You have every reason to.

[stockpirate]

thanks, I try to not over do it, but at times Freepers are nice enough to point it out.

I try to get it out enough so people who only visit the site once in a while have a chance to read it.