I don’t doubt this one bit.
I cannot describe to you how many people said they ‘felt as if they came out of a spell’ and felt depressed that he had WON! And they voted for him! As my cousin put it “a deep sense of foreboding”. That was the day after election. She called in sick to work she felt so bad!
I remember some speech that said something to the effect of “You won’t even know why you will vote for me” or something like that.
Can anyone else point me in the direction of that quote because I found that very telling and was very upset at hearing it and recognizing it. (My father was in psychology classes in the 70’s when I was a child and I heard ALL about the experiments).
Also, I noticed that so many children who aren’t into pleasing their parents feel an almost repulsion. Now my kids know how we feel about Barack, but my daughter was geniunely upset that Obama’s face was on her weekly reader and she had to do assignments on him. She (at 7 years old) expressed the same thing she and her older sisters (11 and 13) expressed to me throughout the election. “Mommy, he makes my stomach hurt”.
I had always dismissed ‘evil’ as my father is an athiest (liberal) and my mother was a Pentecostal (conservative) and divorced young. So I always tended to look at things analytically. However THIS election has opened my eyes to a lot of things I never paid attention to before. Frightening things that I scoffed at as a means of control the church wanted on people and their fear.
No church has urged me to fear this man, only my gut instinct.
That old black magic or voodoo?
A friend felt horribly guilty that she voted for Obama.
My eleven year old girls won’t say his name. They use “it” or, my favorite - “He who shall not be named”.
Out of the mouths of babes...
I'd earlier posted on another thread that BO reminds me of the C.S. Lewis story The Silver Chair in The Chronicles of Narnia series. An evil queen is trying to overthrow Narnia from within, using the captive Prince Rilian, whom she has put under a powerful enchantment. The lion Aslan sends the children from our world, Jill and Eustace, to help Prince Rilian break free from her sorcery and free his kingdom.
Some relevant parts of the story, from http://litsum.com/silver-chair/:
"While visiting with the knight they learn that he suffers from an enchantment and must be tied to a silver chair every night. The children hide while the creatures tie the knight. When they return to the room, the knight tells them that the enchantment is the knight and that when he is in the silver chair he returns to his own senses. The stranger then asks them to release him by the name of Aslan. This is Jill's fourth sign. Jill tells Puddleglum and Eustace to release him. The knight turns out to be Prince Rilian.
"The Queen returns and tries to put the prince, Jill, Eustace, and Puddleglum under her spell again, by throwing magic ashes in the fire and by playing a strange musical instrument. They all resist her attempts until Puddleglum puts out the fire with his foot. The Queen then turns into a serpent and tries to kill the Prince. The Prince and Puddleglum kill the Queen, thus releasing themselves and the strange creatures of the underland from her spell.
“No church has urged me to fear this man, only my gut instinct.”
Interesting post. Someone my family knows who was dying of cancer had only one thing to say about the 2008 candidates last April, which was that he was afraid of 0.
“deep sense of foreboding” and “Mommy,he makes my stomache hurt.” Those phrases nail it. And my “gut instinct” has also told me to fear this man and what he is doing to our country. Somber is another good word for the feeling since Nov.4th. I’ll not rest easy until there is a conservative president again. Obama will screw up big time. His flawed and dangerous policy decisions will cause trouble of historic magnitude. Then he’ll lose the next election. By the way, your child who said Obama makes her stomache hurt, is so precious! From the mouths of babes comes the truth!
My children detest him, too- more than they did Kerry (my two older kids were old enough then). I did a check to make sure it wasn't his color, but my 5 year old has "brown" friends at school and doesn't notice the difference except the way she would hair color.
Well whatever he’s doing doesn’t have a universal effect; it sure doesn’t work for me. I can’t stand even listening to the guy — earplugs will be a good investment to get through the next several years.
As for the “deep sense of foreboding” you mentioned, for the past 5-6 months I’ve also had what I can best describe a deep feeling of impending doom, almost debilitating at times, that I still haven’t been able to shake. Like nothing I’ve experienced before, and hope to never again.
The truth is...I recognized the method of hypnosis he was using. It is used by the Scientologists and a couple other religions I wont mention here. In fact, it has been tried on me a few times and each time I recognized it immediately as 'false' and 'creepy'.
My parents taught me different methods to reach the same conclusion when examining whether someone is 'for real'. My dad calls the person a 'bull$hit artist' and my mother likes the term - 'talking out of the side of their mouth'. Both terms were used in our discussions about Fauxbama.....HAHAHA!
He says this “... a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany ... and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Obama” - Barack Obama Lebanon, New Hampshire.
January 7, 2008.
Hat tip to obamamessiah blogspot.
I enjoyed your reflections and we also know a big BO fan who now claims she is “fighting despair” - right after the guy won!