<p>Mark Morford: Is Obama an enlightened being?</p>
<p>Spiritual wise ones say: This sure ain't no ordinary politician. You buying it?</p>
<p>I find I'm having this discussion, this weird little debate, more and more, with colleagues, with readers, with liberals and moderates and miserable, deeply depressed Republicans and spiritually amped persons of all shapes and stripes and I'm having it in particular with those who seem confused, angry, unsure, thoroughly nonplussed, as they all ask me the same thing: What the hell's the big deal about Obama?</p>