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  • Barack Obama: "He's sort of God"

    08/21/2010 8:30:16 AM PDT · by Michael Zak · 38 replies · 1+ views
    Grand Old Partisan ^ | August 21, 2010 | Michael Zak
    Writing in The American Spectator, Andrew Cline describes how the president enjoys lecturing and haranguing: "Obama has never transitioned from his former job as a college lecturer. The reason is that he really doesn't see his new job as that different. It just has more perks, such as the ability to use force when persuasion fails. And the ability to have paid staffers step forward to clarify one's ill-considered remarks." Lecturer-in-Chief? Haranguer-in-Chief? Perhaps even these job descriptions are below Obama's pay grade. Let's remember how Newsweek editor Evan Thomas described his messiah:
  • Newsweek Editor Calls Obama "Sort Of God" - Literally (Evan Thomas: "He's sort of God."

    06/09/2009 2:10:33 PM PDT · by Laissez-faire capitalist · 24 replies · 1,714+ views
    YouTube ^ | 6/6/2009 | MarcusCMarcellus
    [Evan Thomas:] "...he [Obama] has a very different job from Reagan was all about America and you [Chris Matthews] talked about it. Obama is 'we are above all that now.' We're not just parochial. We stand for something. I mean in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above the world, he's sort of God."