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Newsweek’s Evan Thomas: Obama Is ‘Sort of God’
Newsbusters ^ | June 5, 2009

Posted on 06/06/2009 5:50:33 AM PDT by Keltik

Newsweek editor Evan Thomas brought adulation over President Obama’s Cairo speech to a whole new level on Friday, declaring on MSNBC: "I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God."

Thomas, appearing on Hardball with Chris Matthews, was reacting to a preceding monologue in which Matthews praised Obama’s speech: "I think the President's speech yesterday was the reason we Americans elected him. It was grand. It was positive. Hopeful...But what I liked about the President's speech in Cairo was that it showed a complete humility...The question now is whether the President we elected and spoke for us so grandly yesterday can carry out the great vision he gave us and to the world."

"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."

Thomas elaborated on Obama as God, patronizingly explaining: "He's going to bring all different sides together...Obama is trying to sort of tamper everything down. He doesn't even use the word terror. He uses extremism. He's all about let us reason together...He's the teacher. He is going to say, ‘now, children, stop fighting and quarreling with each other.’ And he has a kind of a moral authority that he – he can – he can do that." In response, Matthews wondered: "If there's a world election between him and Osama Bin Laden, he's running a good campaign." Thomas agreed: "Yes, he is."

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: bho; chairmanmaobama; evanthomas; god; maobama; msmobamaworship; obama; obamamessiah
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1 posted on 06/06/2009 5:50:33 AM PDT by Keltik
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To: Keltik

Ok, he’s the Anti-Christ.

Good grief! Do these people even listen to themselves?? Are the producers of these shows and the execs so enamored with their “god” that they can’t see how ridiculous this is???


2 posted on 06/06/2009 5:52:30 AM PDT by autumnraine (Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson)
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To: Keltik

amazing to see this “cult of personality” like what they whipped up for Stalin, etc. nauseating.


3 posted on 06/06/2009 5:53:41 AM PDT by avital2
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To: Keltik

Wow. Blind are the masses who bow to a false god.


4 posted on 06/06/2009 5:54:15 AM PDT by FreeSouthernAmerican (All we ask is to be let alone----Jefferson Davis)
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To: Keltik

How can any thinking human being take these people seriously?

Hitler was treated as “some sort of God”, too. We need to point out the danger of this blather before Matthews and Thomas further corrupt the public.

Obama is not a god. He is a southside Chicago politician who, by great good fortune, managed to get to the White House.


5 posted on 06/06/2009 5:54:36 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by governments. You've been warned.)
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To: popdonnelly

It must be something in the water in DC.


6 posted on 06/06/2009 5:56:28 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Keltik
"I think the President's speech yesterday was the reason we Americans elected him. It was grand. It was positive. Hopeful...But what I liked about the President's speech in Cairo was that it showed a complete humility...The question now is whether the President we elected and spoke for us so grandly yesterday can carry out the great vision he gave us and to the world."

Careful there: these kinds of words are reserved for only the "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il.

7 posted on 06/06/2009 5:56:51 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: autumnraine; Victoria Delsoul
We know humility and Nobama do not go together.

Goodness these are the very same people who excoriated President Bush's statement about how he follows the wisdom of God in the things that he does.

Now they are saying Obama is "Sorta like God"?

Good grief these people have lost their minds!

8 posted on 06/06/2009 5:57:07 AM PDT by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier)
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To: autumnraine

Kim jung ill is also a God, just ask anyone in North Korea.


9 posted on 06/06/2009 5:57:45 AM PDT by 240B (he is doing everything he said he would'nt and not doing what he said he would)
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To: Keltik

yup. he is the Antichrist. yup.


10 posted on 06/06/2009 5:58:31 AM PDT by Ancient Drive (will)
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To: popdonnelly

MSM >>> Government Run Media >>> Useful Idiots


11 posted on 06/06/2009 6:00:01 AM PDT by RDasher ("El Nino is climate, La Nina is weather")
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To: Keltik
"I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God."

Oh, good one, Evan. Keep it up. That'll really endear you to your Mohammedan buddies...now prostrate yourself before your little god.
12 posted on 06/06/2009 6:00:02 AM PDT by PowderMonkey (Will Work for Ammo)
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To: 240B

And just like Kim Jung, Obama will transform his country into a paradise too.


13 posted on 06/06/2009 6:01:50 AM PDT by cmonkey
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To: Keltik

I can’t say it enough but these clowns have no intention of imposing the laws and traditions of mere mortals on their “god”. Just watch, they’ll try to get him installed as dear leader for life.


14 posted on 06/06/2009 6:02:23 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Keltik

Evan Thomas is “sort of stupid”.


15 posted on 06/06/2009 6:02:43 AM PDT by ozark hilljilly (Does this tagline make me look like a domestic terrorist?)
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To: Keltik

Bad link or bad web page. All I see are the ads.


16 posted on 06/06/2009 6:03:31 AM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: Keltik
"I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God."

Godless leftists are always looking for humans to worship, invariably America-despising communists. B.O. fits the bill perfectly.

17 posted on 06/06/2009 6:05:15 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: avital2
amazing to see this “cult of personality” like what they whipped up for Stalin, etc. nauseating.

I'm just a little freaked out to find myself suddenly part of a giant historical re-enactment!

18 posted on 06/06/2009 6:06:22 AM PDT by ozark hilljilly (Does this tagline make me look like a domestic terrorist?)
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To: autumnraine
Just last year, Evan Thomas was talking about Obama's creepy cult of personality. I guess he decided to drink some more kool-ade.

Here is tape from Breitbart of Evan Thomas of Newsweek’s statements on the Charlie Rose Show…with commentary provided by Rush Limbaugh. By the way, Evan Thomas is Editor-at-Large of Newsweek.

19 posted on 06/06/2009 6:06:34 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (Obama: "Enough about me, let's talk about you...what do you think of me?")
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To: popdonnelly

He’s not God, but the thing that makes me think he might be the anti-Christ is what you say: “He is a southside Chicago politician who, by great good fortune, managed to get to the White House.”

Nobody outside of Chicago had ever even heard of Obama before (well, other than a brief appearance at the DNC when Gore was running). How the heck did a nobody like him end up, not only in the White House, but running all over the world claiming to be its leader, not only political but spiritual - and BEING ACCEPTED AS SUCH to great acclaim?

It makes absolutely no sense.


20 posted on 06/06/2009 6:07:14 AM PDT by livius
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