Barbara Walters on Obama: ‘We Thought He Was Going To Be The Next Messiah’

Media Research Center ^ | December 17, 2013 | 21:33 | Noel Sheppard

[Hoodat]

Yes, she really said it.

On CNN’s Piers Morgan Live Tuesday, in a brief discussion about President Obama, Barbara Walters actually said, “We thought that he was going to be - I shouldn't say this at Christmastime, but - the next messiah” (video follows with transcript and commentary):

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PIERS MORGAN, HOST: You have interviewed every president of my lifetime. Why is Obama facing so much opposition now? Why is he struggling so much to really fulfill the great flame of ambition and excitement that he was elected on originally in 2009?



BARBARA WALTERS: Well, you've touched on it to a degree. He made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be - I shouldn't say this at Christmastime, but - the next messiah. And the whole ObamaCare, or whatever you want to call it, the Affordable Health Act, it just hasn't worked for him, and he’s stumbled around on it, and people feel very disappointed because they expected more.

It's very difficult when the expectations for you are very high. You're almost better off when they are low and then they rise and rise. His were very high and they’ve dropped. But you know, he still has several years to go. What does he have, three years, Piers? And, you know, there will be a lot of changes, one thinks in that time.

Just imagine someone of Walters’ stature actually admitting that she and others expected Obama to be the next messiah. . . .

[Excellence]

And the whole ObamaCare, or whatever you want to call it, the Affordable Health Act, it just hasn't worked for him

Because having it work out for him is all that matters.

[pallis]

Politics and messiahs are a dangerous mix, and any American wanting such a thing is an idiot. In Obama’s case, the political messiah is an idiot, not to mention lazy, gay and a lie, the typical leftist stuff.

[Liz]

Yoo, hoo Barbara---where were you when the lights went out?

Obama, aided and abetted by Democrats, took AWAY our health care. They took away our doctors. They made healthcare prohibitively expensive.

Repubs tried to stop them....all voted against the ACA. There were numerous bills---three years ago one aimed to help Americans keep their plans.

Dems voted it down...prolly on Obama's orders. Nancy Pelosi egged then on---saying American people could not wait any longer for Obama's perfect health care.

Obama/Dems steamrolled over Americans---they had nothing to stop them: super-majority voting power, Obama buying their aye votes, and Nancy Pelosi pressuring them not to read it before voting.

[WayneS]

Am I wrong, or did Piers Morgan call Barbara Walters old?

[sickoflibs]

Back in 2009 I used to joke here about Obama being (considered) the liberal messiah, such were liberals expectations both in 2009 but again early this year after re-election.

Recall that they wanted GWB to leave office early so Obama could start fixing things in December 2008.

He talked magic. They believed it.

[WayneS]

I agree. Mr. Morgan has nowhere to go but down.

[SkyDancer]

Michael Savage is right. Liberalism is a mental disease.

[mulligan]

Instead, Obama turned out to be the next devil.

[Oratam]

ah, the same veil remains.

[AD from SpringBay]

Barbara, who is this we? Name some names honey.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[COBOL2Java]

I fail to understand how anyone of Walters' intellect can consider this of a man who languished as a college lecturer for 12 years without ever once earning a promotion.

When you believe in nothing you'll fall for anything.

[Pan_Yan]

I fail to understand how anyone of Walters' intellect can consider this of a man who languished as a college lecturer for 12 years without ever once earning a promotion.

By all accounts the lecturer position was just an easy paycheck and resume enhanser. He never wanted to be a professor and by all accounts most of the staff at the university resented him being there ... what little time that was.

[MrB]

Have you ever seen the reaction from sheeperals when you make that reference?

Very humorous, their outrage. Almost as if you’ve pointed out the elephant in the room. Kind of a “how rude of you to mention it” response.

[TomGuy]

That’s funny. We thought he was going to be the Antichrist.

I recall posting in some of the threads related to his first inaugural:

Would he ascend out of the clouds into Washington DC or would he just walk across the Potomac?

[WayneS]

I wanted GWB to resign in mid-December of 2008 so that Dick Cheney would become the 44th president 44th president, and Obama's inaugural committee would have to reprint all their invitations:

"Please join us as we celebrate the inauguration of our 44th 45th president"... etc., etc.

[left that other site]

This is just one of the hundreds of creepy images you can see by searching "Obama messiah"

[SampleMan]

1. Next messiah? When did Barbara start believing in the first Messiah?

2. What a total admission that socialism is a cult.

[baddog 219]

[Liz]

Course stupids like Barbara wont admit they were duped by this practiced conman. Obozo used the same tactics he employed while duping Chicagoans on food stamps and SSI that they could payoff mortgages.

Conman Boobamba figured he could get away w/ repeated lies about O/care---like keeping your plan, and your doctor. But the conniver showed his true colors when he said enrollees would "save $2500"....THE biggest line a sitting president ever fed to the American people---which he knew not to be true (said as a re-election ploy---to regain power).

Prolly the same line by which he duped gullible people on welfare, food stamps and SSI, conning them into believing they could payoff mortgages.

The Chicago conman----as "community organizer"..... even sued banks to get these subprime mtge disasters------the same banks he's now suing for "predator lending"---b/c they burdened the poor with mtges they can't possibly payoff.

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OBAMA's LYING TRIFECTA At the 2008 presidential debate in Nashville, Obama connivingly advanced his signature plan that was ultimately enacted into the monumental fraud known as the "Affordable Care Act."

Obama’s 2008 verbatim debate statement was as follows: “No. 1, let me just repeat, if you’ve got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it. All I’m going to do is help you to lower the premiums on it. You’ll still have choice of doctor.”

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I believe Obama also used the tried and true lie: "I never had sex with that woman."

OBAMA: "Mandela was my idol and mentor."

INTERPRETER "He never had sex with that woman."