MORFORD: Is Obama an enlightened being?

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 6/6/8 | Mark Morford

[SmithL]

Spiritual wise ones say: This sure ain't no ordinary politician. You buying it?

I find I'm having this discussion, this weird little debate, more and more, with colleagues, with readers, with liberals and moderates and miserable, deeply depressed Republicans and spiritually amped persons of all shapes and stripes and I'm having it in particular with those who seem confused, angry, unsure, thoroughly nonplussed, as they all ask me the same thing: What the hell's the big deal about Obama?

I, of course, have an answer. Sort of.

Warning: If you are a rigid pragmatist/literalist, itchingly evangelical, a scowler, a doubter, a burned-out former '60s radical with no hope left, or are otherwise unable or unwilling to parse alternative New Age speak, click away right now, because you ain't gonna like this one little bit.

Ready? It goes likes this:

Barack Obama isn't really one of us. Not in the normal way, anyway.

This is what I find myself offering up more and more in response to the whiners and the frowners and to those with broken or sadly dysfunctional karmic antennae - or no antennae at all - to all those who just don't understand and maybe even actively recoil against all this chatter about Obama's aura and feel and MLK/JFK-like vibe.

To them I say, all right, you want to know what it is? The appeal, the pull, the ethereal and magical thing that seems to enthrall millions of people from all over the world, that keeps opening up and firing into new channels of the culture normally completely unaffected by politics?

No, it's not merely his youthful vigor, or handsomeness, or even inspiring rhetoric.

[Hoodlum91]

He’s half white. That may have made him somewhat lighter.

[Joe 6-pack]

Not unless you call being guided by satan 'enlightened'.

You may wish to look at the etymology of the name, "Lucifer."

[Boagenes]

In my opinion, Obama is nothing but a con-man from the South Side of Chicago. Period. He's an empty suit - and an empty screen, on to which a bunch of dejected, depressed, dependent, and desperate millions (mainly the weak and feminized) are projecting all their fantasies. And he's laughing all the way to the White House.

This guy isn't any "enlightened being", and he isn't Jesus 2.0, and he isn't the Obamessiah - but he might, in fact, just be the Anti-Christ...we'll have to wait and see on that one, but given the bizarre, cult-like, charisma this guy engenders amongst his "followers", I'm definitely starting to wonder. He, and the ones who "believe" - especially the ones I've met - creep me out in a chills-up-the-spine-hair-tingling-on-the-back-of-my-neck kind of way for which words just don't do justice. They give me the freakin' willies.

[Antoninus]

Old "Phantom Vaginal Pains" is at it again.

Ye gods...

[EveningStar]

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[B Knotts]

In my opinion, Obama is nothing but a con-man from the South Side of Chicago Hawaii.

[mylife]

There's a vast amount of positive energy swirling about that's been held back by the armies of BushCo darkness, and this energy has now found a conduit, a lightning rod, is now effortlessly self-organizing around Obama's candidacy.

The guy is insane

[Fintan]

See my reply on DHOT.

Thanks for the heads-up, Bud...

[EveningStar]

ROFL! Your tagline! :)

[EveningStar]

I saw it! :)

[dhot]

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