"We are the change that we seek… We are the ones we've been waiting for!" “I’m asking you to believe!” “Join the movement!” “We are the chosen ones!” In appropriating the language of the Bible, what Obama really is saying is, “I am the change that you seek… I am the one you’ve been waiting for.” “I am the chosen one.” It’s like when Philip found Nathanael in the first chapter of John and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Obama of Somewhere, the son of Somebody.”...