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Looking To Obama For Redemption
nypost.com ^ | June 7, 2008 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 06/07/2008 8:20:19 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Is Barack Obama the Messiah? Lots of people have pon dered the possibility. There are Web sites dedicated to the question; Google "Is Barack Obama the Messiah?" and you'll get more than 35,000 hits. (Enter just the words "Messiah" and "Obama" and you'll get nearly 10 times that.)

Since Obama declared his candidacy, there have been remarkably few biblical plagues. And lions and lambs seem open to bilateral negotiations.

Obama's apostles are hard to dismiss. Oprah simply calls him "The One," because "we need politicians who know how to be the truth." (Jesus says in John 14:6 "I am the way, the truth.") Oprah goes on to say Obama will help us "evolve to a higher plane," which would put Obama in the role of our Intelligent Designer.

The New York Times reports that his volunteers are taught to eschew discussions of the issues and instead "testify" about how they "came to Obama."

For many, he's no retro-redeemer, but a 21st century savior, a Matrix-messiah and Neo for our modern-day Nineveh. Self-help guru Deepak Chopra dubs Obama "a quantum leap in American consciousness," while prominent "leadership coach" Eve Konstantine assures us that, "He's our product out of the all-knowing quantum field of intelligence."

Obama willing, I'll never be stuck next to these people on a plane.

Michelle Obama is arguably Obamanity's greatest evangelist, though she has a streak of Old Testament smiting and wrath to her. She insists her husband has redeemed the entire nation; she proclaims him the sort of leader who will fix our broken souls.

But don't hope for grace on the cheap. "The change Barack is talking about is hard," she insists, "so don't get too excited, because Barack is going to demand that you, too, be different."

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KEYWORDS: 2008; blueturban; dnctalkingpoints; goldberg; obama; obamaisnotmygod; obamamessiah; obey; thisisyourgod
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1 posted on 06/07/2008 8:20:19 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Yes, Jesus would’ve done deals with Rezko and sat there silently during Rev. Bullfrog’s racist & traitorous rants.

The Messiah: with zero legislative accomplishments and married to a racist loudmouth.

Absolutely laughable. Some people just get dumber by the day.


2 posted on 06/07/2008 8:24:53 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Obama is shaping up to be the most divisive politician since George Wallace ran for President.
3 posted on 06/07/2008 8:25:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Worst. Messiah. Ever.


4 posted on 06/07/2008 8:27:40 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: TheWasteLand

LOL!


5 posted on 06/07/2008 8:30:01 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY ((((Stop the Obamanation!))))
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Nice photo montage.  It certainly covers the bases.

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6 posted on 06/07/2008 8:30:55 PM PDT by JCG
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The change Barack is talking about is hard," she insists, "so don't get too excited, because Barack is going to demand that you, too, be different."

How could anyone seriously consider voting for this fraud, with all this cheap rhetoric, all these questionable "friends". I guess I'm just a bitter clinger - hanging on to my gun and my Bible.

7 posted on 06/07/2008 8:32:39 PM PDT by PatrickF4 (Typical White Person clinging bitterly to gun and Bible.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Obama talks more and more like an idiot on steroids. Apparently there are crowds of people that finally found in that their voice...
8 posted on 06/07/2008 8:33:48 PM PDT by alecqss
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Who needs Obama? I’m racking up carbon credits for my redemption. :-)


9 posted on 06/07/2008 8:34:22 PM PDT by littlehouse36 (I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him -- Booker T. Washington)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“The Messiah” of high taxes, racial hatred and loss of personal freedom.

Our healthcare system will become an unmitigated disaster.


11 posted on 06/07/2008 8:36:03 PM PDT by whitedog57
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To: A_Former_Democrat
The Antichrist will be mistaken for the Messiah by many.
12 posted on 06/07/2008 8:39:20 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"don't get too excited, because Barack is going to demand that you, too, be different."

I'm not feeling Obama-love.

13 posted on 06/07/2008 8:39:30 PM PDT by TimSkalaBim
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To: Free ThinkerNY
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.


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.

Finally, 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

14 posted on 06/07/2008 8:40:33 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I am frankly appalled that anyone would use the two words in the same paragraph much less the same sentence. The Messiah, Jesus Christ the anointed of God and this charlatan a deceiver and a opportunist of the lowest sort. what communion hath light with darkness? . (II Cor 6:14)ASV


15 posted on 06/07/2008 8:49:07 PM PDT by kublia khan (Absolute war brings total victory)
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...and you know what? Surely Obama has heard and read the reports of him being a "messiah" type. But has he ever made a claim that he is not a "messiah" type? It seems that he is accepting the "praise and worship".
16 posted on 06/07/2008 8:52:13 PM PDT by GulfWar1Vet (Maranatha!)
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To: Jeff Head

I learned in elementary English to never end a sentence with a prepostion.

In is a preposition.

The signs of the Marxist candidate poseur should read, “Change in which we can believe.”


17 posted on 06/07/2008 8:52:42 PM PDT by Hilltop (Control the high ground. Control the battlefield.)
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18 posted on 06/07/2008 8:59:30 PM PDT by Squidpup ("Fight the Good Fight")
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To: Hilltop

“Change in which we can believe.”

Perhaps Obama did not think his commonly supporters would understand it that way.


19 posted on 06/07/2008 9:03:25 PM PDT by littlehouse36 (Welcome Hillary Supporters to Free Republic -- Best Obama Coverage on the Web)
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To: Hilltop

Their alternate phrasing would be “Change we can believe in, a$$hole.”


20 posted on 06/07/2008 9:05:52 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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