Barack Obama and The Politics of Infatuation

Beacon Street Journal ^ | 6/11/08 | John Kinsellagh

[beacon street bandit]

Hope springs eternal as they say. But when it comes time to the candidacy of Barack Obama, for many of his Democratic supporters and slavishly devoted members of the press, mere hope has been supplanted by euphoria, infatuation, and at times, delusion. For San Francisco Chronicle writer Mark Morford, Obama is not a mere politician, but rather, a “Lightworker.” Not sure what a Lightworker is? Morford expounds:

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. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.

Shelley, Keats or Byron could not have penned more idealized prose. Each Morford column that discusses and praises the virtues of the object of his affections is a paen of love to the Exalted One; each successive column more giddy than the last. Morford’s latest sonnet, or Ode to Obama, while an extreme example, is nonetheless indicative, of the silliness and absurdity to which the press corps has succumbed in their quest to insure an Obama victory.

On numerous occasions, Barack Obama himself has eagerly and imprudently bought into all this media hype of his seemingly immortal powers. For those who thought Moses’ parting of the Red Sea with his staff was a neat trick, not to be outdone, Obama, in an improvident act of one-upmanship has proclaimed that his candidacy represents

[Jeff Head]

Infatuation is easy when you are raised to an idol status. Thus, Obama's ardent followers are not swayed by logic, reason, or truth. To them, regardless of his positions, his gaffes, his past, or his associations, he is an idol and they are the idolaters and it has been enginered that way as a media blitz appealing to just that kind of reaction.

Nothing you can say or do will convince these people otherwise...


Because I am the one they and I have been waiting for...and I am lovin' it.

Those wild eyed people represent the millions of Americans raised in the government day-care and indoctrination centers we call public schools who did not have, or would not listen to, parents and others who tried to counterweight the garbage they heard at school...who have been raised on 60 second sound bite time spans and know no better.

You have other tens of millions on the dole who will vote for him regardless of position because he promises to keep pilfering the public largess for them.

Still othes of millions will vote for him simply because he is black.

Other millions will vote for him because they know exactly who he is and what he represents and agree with his anti-American positions.

The first three are all what is termed, useful idiots, a term coined by Lenin for the dupes he got to support him.

Against this it is left to us to educate, arouse, and amass the tens of millions of Americans who understand and hold fast to the foundational principles our constitutional republic rests upon...many of them the bitter, rural Americans clinging to their guns and religion that Obama so arrogantly spoke of.

Note this comparison:

A populsitic, charismatic, self-serving individual has a way of mesmerizing foolish people looking for an idol...then and now.

Barack Hussein Obama is the apex of the hate-America, domestic enemy in this country. His election as president would be the greatest coup any enemy has ever scored against this country and could easily lead to the worst, horrific disaster in our nation's history.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

VOTE NOBAMANATION 2008

[Dilbert San Diego]

Well, the MSM and prominent Dems. such as the Kennedys decided that Obama was the 2nd coming of JFK.

Hillary was a bland old “establishment” candidate by comparison.

Maybe it was hard for some to get excited about Hillary as the 1st woman president, when she personified Bill Clinton and the past. Whereas Obama represents the future, and was an historic candidate as the first serious black candidate for president.

And, Obama is liberal, so that makes the MSM happy. Whereas Hillary and Bill have “triangulated” issues, so they are not hard core liberals.

Obama is at ease as a politician, whereas Hillary looks so silly when she goes to have a shot and a beer in a bar; it looks so staged and phony.

Add everything up, and there was just more “buzz” and excitement about Obama’s candidacy compared to Hillary.

[vpintheak]

Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a LightworkerM

People that write this BS really make we want to ring their neck! I am sick do death of them.

[patriot08]

Allah’s Apostle {Muhammad} said, ‘Some eloquent speech is as effective as magic.’

[biscuit jane]

Mark Morford LOVES to push the buttons of Christ loving people. And he does it very well.

If you read several of his articles you soon relalise that he says the same thing in nearly all his columns and most of it is simply to button-push Christians.

He’s on the payroll of The City of Hate Daily Chronical.

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Mark Morford LOVES to push the buttons of Christ loving people. And he does it very well.

True. But he did have his tongue half in his cheek with this "lightworker" thing. It's hard to tell if he believes it himself or not.