Posted on 07/01/2008 6:57:48 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
Vote for him, Greedy Konservative, you must.
It amuses me to no end the extent that the Kucinich Left will comingle fantasy and the real world. It goes far beyond the problems that some conservatives, such as John Miller, have had with being Teenage half-Orcs.
While Miller personifies geekdom in a way that makes my highest level Cavalier-Palidan have to go back to the armory and re-sharpen his Bastard Sword, he knows well that he is wasting time on a game. He comprehends that he is indulging a hobby. Unlike Star Wars Creator George Lucas, he seems to grok the concept that he lives on a small planet, next to a middling-bright star, in a boring backwater of the Milky Way Galaxy.
It’s the fabulist left who believe Democratic candidate Barack Obama came from a galaxy far, far away. We have it on high authority; from George Lucas, no less.
Barack Obama is definitely a Jedi Knight. “I would say that’s reasonably obvious,” he said.
San Francisco Columnist Mark Morford seems equally buoyant above terra firma. He suggests Senator Obama has more than one character class. He is also, get ready for this, a Lightworker. Just to argue that this isn’t a gag, Morford coughes on the doobie and actual hammers out a column in defense of this outlandish thesis.
Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve.
And how will the Junior Senator from The Land of Lincoln manage this feat? First he’ll snap his fingers, then he’ll click his heels together, disown Jeremiah Wright; and golly, Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore. Admirably, Morford refutes this sophomoric humor by offering some specifics.
There's a vast amount of positive energy swirling about that's been held back by the armies of BushCo darkness, and this energy has now found a conduit, a lightning rod, is now effortlessly self-organizing around Obama's candidacy. People and emotions and ideas of high and positive vibration are automatically drawn to him.
Wise Spiritual Guru Deepok Chopra examines the effects that this reversal of entropy on the part of Senator Obama, will have on our great nation’s future.
If we are lucky, we will wake up and begin the journey back to self-awareness as a people. Disraeli wasn't entirely right. To make a career in public life a person must know himself and know the times. But to make a historical career in public life, the times must seek you out. That happens only rarely, and now it has happened to a junior senator from Illinois. If Barack Obama makes it all the way to the White House, it will represent a quantum leap in American consciousness and a promise to restore America's position in the world.
Chris Matthews, ever the newsman and professional journalist, had the following to say.
"I've been following politics since I was about 5," said Mr. Matthews. "I've never seen anything like this. This is bigger than Kennedy. [Obama] comes along, and he seems to have the answers. This is the New Testament. This is surprising."
I can only hope Chris will take a day of sick leave and have his doctor examine that tingly leg problem…
While I can’t help but enjoy a good laugh at the expense of both John Miller on the right, and all of these various and sundry overrated buffoons on the left, I can’t help but worry somewhat about people who take these things that seriously. When people get up bright and early on a November morning to vote for The Lightworker, things are badly askew. Sane and reasonable adults don’t laugh with Mark Morford on this one.
When they take a step back and realize that idiots like Morford and Chris Matthews actual influence what other Americans think on a regular basis, no one should laugh at all. The Roman Emperor Constantine was correct in eschewing the divinity of the head of state. He should have gone further and proclaimed the stupidity of political discourse informed by anthropomorphic creatures of the woods.
Thus, when any candidate gets publically knighted by George Lucas, beatified by Deepok Chapra or endorsed by a talking bear, run! Run to the nearest voting station and vote against that person. Anyone who actually believes this:
The Bear spoke with gruff authority, "Politics Shmolitics, you say. Well, I challenge you. Go deep in the woods. Listen carefully. What will you hear? ... 'We want Kucinich! We want Kucinich!' "
..is the last person whose vote for President you should be emulating.
What answers?
All we've heard from Obama are glittering generalities and psycho-babble platitudes.
It depends upon the day of the week.
The Empire and the Sith were the good guys anyway. The Jedi where a bunch of elitist racists who repressed individualism and emotion. Who wants to be a celibate monk anyway? The Jedi and Rebellion where an unimpressive crew of anarchic royals who wreck the galaxy so that Princess Leia can have her tiara back.
That statement would cause Lucas to experience cranial detonation. :-)
One of the more interesting comments I have read on FR.
Carolyn
Before I read on...that John Miller article brought back some great memories. I actually run a Star Wars RPG game these days where the players are my two sons.
It is. (and this time I’m not even being sarcastic)
Dang, could George Lucas buy a clue? He already worked anti-Bush stuff into his movies, does he need to keep making it harder for conservatives to buy his stuff?
Clueless moron, Lucas is.
I always liked to play a paladin.
Carolyn
Of course, his efforts backfire to some extent. I make liberal use of "So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause" when talking about politics, especially Obama.
If I didn't already have a better tagline...
The case for the Empire:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/248ipzbt.asp
Their blood is on your hands Skywalker.
One of my favorites if you couldn’t tell by how many ideas I stole from it.
Is that Steve Martin as King Tut?
Modern history provides many examples of messianic leaders whose followers displayed exactly the same sort of worshipful attitude expressed in this article. In every case of which I am aware when one of these came to real power the consequences for the people in those nations (and not infrequently the people in surrounding nations) were calamitous at best.
The hardest thing that sane people have to accept is that these people really believe this stuff. And often the man they have elevated to demi-god status believes it too. People of this sort are capable of anything because they “know” that what they do is for the “greatest good” and this justifies everything.
This Obama person has much of the media propaganda machine completely in his corner. More than a few of his followers really do look on him as a more than human figure - as a kind of “savior”. This isn’t just hype in their minds but is “reality”. Time and again we have seen leftists across the planet rally to these charismatic figures with usually terrible results for all.
I can only hope that Obama is simply another cynical opportunist playing on the emotions of the masses. In that case he will most likely turn out to be just another grasping politician and the damage he does, while it may be severe, will not be catastrophic. But if he turns out to be one of the sort he really thinks he is the “savior” his followers believe he is then the consequences for all of us become potentially disastrous.
What answers?
"Seems" is the operative word. He is like an outline of a person on a chalk board. The observer may fill him in as he or she sees fit.
A fairy is Obama. Sucks he does.
Strong with the dark side of the Schwartz is he.
World of Warcraft meets Obama?
Well here’s an analogy that fits. In Warcraft, there is term that fits Obama’s style of politics. The term is “Ganking”, or to get “Ganked”.
That’s when the bad guys (orcs, demons, etc) jump a good guy, usually from behind. Then they “Camp Out” on the player they just killed, so they can do again when the player “revives” to continue playing. Often, they call in higher level player to help.
This is how Obama has run his campaign. Instead of a stand up fight, he relies on allies to sneak up on opponents and attack them from behind. He camps their battered bodies and offers platitudes, denying he had anything to do with it, waiting for the chance to slip in the shiv once more when the opponent gets up off the ground.
The latest example of this is General Weasely Clark, the undead assassin of the Obama horde.
I mean, if we are to use analogies to fantasy games, then lets get it right. Obama is on a quest for the ring of power, and it won’t be pretty if he gets his hands on it.
He is not my son. His mother is a jackal and his father a hyena.
Smoke the ganga I will. Red-eyed will I become and a whole pizza shall I consume.
I ilke that whole pompous ass light worker riff LOLOLL. When the New Age types claim it so what who cares?. But for Obama to be tagged with that is a hoot
Obama is just your garden variety con man but in way over his head
If we were to extend the “Obama-as-Jedi” meme a little further, we would certainly touch upon yet another Jedi flaw: The Jedi condoned slavery.
Not only did Qui-gon do nothing to free Anakin’s mother or the other slaves on Tatooine, but the Jedi order as a whole was more than willing to use the enslaved clones in their war against the Trade Federation. That’s what the clones were; they were slaves. They were bred to fight other peoples’ wars and had no choice in the matter. This didn’t matter to the high-and-mighty Jedi as they were “working for the common good”.
So too will Obama and the high-and-mighty Democrats enslave the rest of us with high taxes and endless government programs, all for “the common good”. We’ll be expected to obey like we were bred for that purpose; just as the clone slaves were expected to obey.
He chose his friends.
Yeah but unlike the Jedi we have 60 million armed amoungst us to say NO to the Sentate and Emporer. In our movie, the Jedi own the death star and we are telling the Emporer and Senate to get it right or we will fire our primary weapon.
Did you ever watch the short film titled “Troops”? It is Cops meets Star Wars. Damned funny stuff.
Star Wars films are airing on Spike TV tonight, folks.
OMG where in the world you got that picture of Yoda smoking Mary Jane LOL!
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