It is troubling the levels of sycophantic insanity to which the enthusiastic supporters of President Obama will sink. This week on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris “Tingly Legs” Matthews, Newsweek editor Evan Thomas likened Mr. Obama to God.
“Well, we were the good guys in 1984, it felt that way. It hasn't felt that way in recent years. So Obama's had, really, a different task We're seen too often as the bad guys. And he, he has a very different job from ... Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is - we are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something, I mean in a way Obama's standing above the country, above above the world, he's sort of God.”
This is the same Evan Thomas who was so awe-struck by the “creepy cult of personality” surrounding then President-elect Obama after his acceptance speech in Denver on the Charlie Rose Show. He is not just comparing Obama to some abstract concept of an omniscient deity, perhaps one of many in a kaleidoscopic pantheon that includes Zeus, Odin, Vishnu, and Jeff the God of Biscuits. He is likening him to the Big G. The one Rush Limbaugh evokes with a deep and reverent “Gawd-uh.” Charlie Rose and guests marveled in amazement at how Obama “watches us watching him.” What is most disturbing about this unholy obsession from those who usually scorn such reverent adulation in others is not the inability of the Obama faithful to view him objectively, but rather that Barack Obama’s most zealous disciple is himself.
Camille Paglia observes in her article on Salon.com this month that Obama “projected himself as a floating spectator of other people's beliefs” and wonders how he can deliver a major statement on religion and remain so detached from it. However, she does not make the connection that the President see himself as detached from everything including the consequences of his own policies. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act should have been manna from heaven as America wandered in the wilderness in the wake of the devastating plagues wrought by George W Bush. Despite the promise of a stimulus package of porcine proportions, the economy refuses to be converted. Unemployment has risen to 9.4%, the highest rate in 27 years. In May the economy shed an additional 345, 000 jobs and 2.7 million in 2009. For his next miracle, President Obama will transform these losses into gains by creating 600,000 jobs in the next 100 days. Obama’s powers are not just limited to creating jobs from ether. He can also turn the hearts of our enemies and convince them to beat their nukes into plowshares. He need only to complete an act of contrition of biblical proportions by bowing and scraping his way across Europe and the Middle East in recent months, begging forgiveness for the sins of American exceptionalism and success and consecrate it with sacrifice Israeli national security. An American official in Israel offered this in eulogy. “We are going to change the world. Please don’t interfere.” He did everything but sweat blood. How do our enemies’ respond? North Korea threatens to wage merciless nuclear war and the Taliban killed 9 and wounded 60 in a truck bomb attack against a luxury hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.
President Obama is a man who sees America as a place of failure, inequality, cruelty, and intolerance. The only true emotional fervor that the President seems to espouse is for his own political ideology, which I suspect, is his true religion. To him, America is a land of social "sins" in need of repentance and salvation. He is the Messiah above it all, equally common man and wholly devoid of the ignorance that condemns us. He is the one sent to absolve us of our sins and will usher in a New America made in his image. Pray this doesn’t happen.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/06/05/newsweek_editor_evan_thomas_obama_is_sort_of_god.html
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2008/11/06/newsweek-s-thomas-slightly-creepy-cult-personality-around-obama
http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/06/10/waterloo/
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