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The Obama Messiah Watch
Slate ^ | 1/29/2007 | Timothy Noah

Posted on 01/30/2007 7:13:12 AM PST by Mike Bates

Is Barak Obama—junior U.S. senator from Illinois, best-selling author, Harvard Law Review editor, Men's Vogue cover model, and "exploratory" presidential candidate—the second coming of our Savior and our Redeemer, Prince of Peace and King of Kings, Jesus Christ? His press coverage suggests we can't dismiss this possibility out of hand. I therefore inaugurate the Obama Messiah Watch, which will periodically highlight gratuitously adoring biographical details that appear in newspaper, television, and magazine profiles of this otherworldly presence in our midst.

Today's item, from a Los Angeles Times profile by Larry Gordon about Obama's two years at Occidental College (before he transferred to Columbia):

In [political science professor Roger] Boesche's European politics class, [classmate Ken] Sulzer said he was impressed at how few notes [italics mine] Obama took. "Where I had five pages, Barry had probably a paragraph of the pithiest, tightest prose you'd ever see. … It was very short, very sweet. Obviously somebody almost Clintonesque in being able to sum a whole lot of concepts and place them into a succinct written style."

Readers are invited to submit similar details—Obama walking on water, Obama sating the hunger of 5,000 with five loaves and two fishes—from other Obama profiles.

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: obama; obamaramadingdong
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To: Mike Bates
What does he weigh, 140 pounds?? Mary Landrieu looks a lot sturdier than he does. I bet she could take him, in a fight.
21 posted on 01/30/2007 10:44:28 AM PST by redstates4ever
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To: redstates4ever
Her Grandma could probably take him in a fight. But he's just so gosh darn cute, ain't he?
22 posted on 01/30/2007 10:48:18 AM PST by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: freespirited

Good job! thanks for the ping. Let's tag-team one another on these Obama threads, OK? :)


23 posted on 01/30/2007 1:35:08 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Mike Bates

Some entrepreneurial conservative out there needs to start an Obama Antichrist watch to counter this mockery.


24 posted on 01/31/2007 10:31:57 AM PST by lqclamar
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