Posted on 06/07/2008 8:24:54 AM PDT by moneyrunner
Victor Davis Hanson points out that Obama's past has, thus far produced two reactions.
There are two disturbing—and now predictable—patterns to Obama's serial distancing from prior intimates. First, the post facto embarrassment is personalized in terms of "I" and "me," as if a Wright or Rezko is somehow doing something out of character aimed at Obama, rather than persisting in entirely predictable behavior that offends society at large. Thus in reaction to the racist Wright, we get "That's a show of disrespect to me," while Pfleger's venom prompts, "I am deeply disappointed in Father's Pfleger." But the issue is racial hatred, not a matter of pleasing or respecting Obama himself. ...
This is the key to his defeat. Obama is self centered to an extent not known in modern political life. The nearest competitors are the Clintons, who were famously centered on themselves, their needs, their wants and the gratification of their desires.
But the Clintons hid their megalomania behind a façade of caring for the people: “I feel your pain. (Bites lip)” In Obama, we have a much more perfect manifestation of the messiah complex. It’s only about him; he lives on a different spiritual plane. He’s the star in his own Steven Spielberg movie; the super-being sent to earth to bring MANKIND to the next level.
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Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. ...
So we have a new word entering our vocabulary. Obama can’t be described by the old term: Messiah. That may have been good enough for the “Bitter Clingers” and other assorted redneck sister-marrying Bible thumpers wallowing in ignorance. But we have a new kind of godhead, a “Lightworker” who will lead us to a new heaven on earth.
“Many spiritually advanced people I know”
Aging hippies that worship Gaia? Shove it, Morford.
“broken or sadly dysfunctional karmic antennae “
Moford would be more articulate if he took Obambi’s karmic antennae out of his mouth when speaking.
“So we have a new word entering our vocabulary.”
Sorta like “Chimpy McBushhitler”.
Self-righteous leftist idiot on the loose.
I think Obama’s self-centered disappointment in other people is probably a result of feeling abandoned by his father.
Look at the terminology: "karmic antennae," "lightworker" and even "wise, spiritually attuned" (as if wisdom and spirituality are independent of any particular religion)
These indicate a Liberal, new agey kinds of faux spirituality that thinks it's grown "beyond" Christianity. The Bible is an artifact of an obsolete, oppressive culture, etc. etc.
People who actually believe in something are unlikely to be attracted to that.
Yes,old mighty Genie!
I have not attended the majority but you are living in outer space if you do not think this is prevalent in most of them.
Listen closely to black children. Do not get involved in conversations,just listen.
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