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Lauer to Obama: How Will You 'Manage Expectations' of Being 'Messiah?'
Newsbusters ^ | 10/20/08 | Geoff Dickens

Posted on 10/20/2008 11:53:25 AM PDT by pissant

Reciting all the messianic nicknames given to Barack Obama, such as "The One," "The Savior," and "The Messiah," NBC's Matt Lauer, on Monday's "Today" show asked the Democratic presidential nominee, how he will "manage" such great, "expectations." During an interview, aired in two parts in the first hour of "Today," Lauer rarely hit Obama with a tough question, instead choosing to focus on recent campaign highlights such as all the recent endorsements for Obama from Colin Powell to the Washington Post.

In the later portion of the interview Lauer recounted the biblical descriptions of Obama:

People have called you "The Savior," "The Messiah," "The Messenger of Change." The expectations have been raised to such a level. Some people say you're partly responsible because of your confident attitude. If you are, as you just say, lucky enough to be elected the next president are you going to have to consciously manage expectations, during the first several months of your administration?

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KEYWORDS: 2008; antichrist; larrysinclairslover; mattlauer; messiah; obama; obamamessiah
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Sounds like Lauer is itching to give the messiah a Sinclair.
1 posted on 10/20/2008 11:53:26 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant
You may be correct.


2 posted on 10/20/2008 11:56:20 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (de Tocqueville ..."In a democracy the people get the government they deserve". ...)
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To: pissant

” Yes Matt, I’m confident that I can run this great nation into the ground”


3 posted on 10/20/2008 11:56:47 AM PDT by Mac from Cleveland (Joe Biden behind a microphone is like Ted Kennedy behind a steering wheel)
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To: pissant

” Yes Matt, I’m confident that I can run this great nation into the ground”


4 posted on 10/20/2008 11:56:55 AM PDT by Mac from Cleveland (Joe Biden behind a microphone is like Ted Kennedy behind a steering wheel)
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To: pissant
"Some people say you're partly responsible because of your confident Elitist attitude"

There..I fixed it for Matt!
5 posted on 10/20/2008 11:57:21 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: COUNTrecount

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww....


7 posted on 10/20/2008 11:57:57 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Is Obamanation what our founding fathers, our fallen men in combat, and Ronald Reagan had in mind?)
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To: COUNTrecount

Another Biblical name for Obama: Mabus.


8 posted on 10/20/2008 11:58:05 AM PDT by RandyGH (Democrats--So far left they've left America)
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To: COUNTrecount

Another Biblical name for Obama: Mabus.


9 posted on 10/20/2008 11:58:10 AM PDT by RandyGH (Democrats--So far left they've left America)
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To: pissant

Biden is already lowering expectations.... See below

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2110295/posts


10 posted on 10/20/2008 11:58:20 AM PDT by tomnbeverly (Night of the Obama Zombies (Premier 11/04/08. Coming to a neighborhood near you))
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To: DoughtyOne

LOL!

I agree....

:0)


11 posted on 10/20/2008 11:58:32 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: RandyGH

That’s from Nostradamus...........


12 posted on 10/20/2008 11:59:11 AM PDT by Red Badger (My wallet is made out of depleted you-owe-mium........)
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To: Bigh4u2

Fer chisel... LOL


13 posted on 10/20/2008 12:01:09 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Is Obamanation what our founding fathers, our fallen men in combat, and Ronald Reagan had in mind?)
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To: F15Eagle

bho is laughing at the people who are kissing his ass for nothing he’s done or can do, but because he’s clean and articulate.


14 posted on 10/20/2008 12:01:14 PM PDT by Doug TX
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To: pissant
[Powell] said, "Barack I know you, I know John McCain. You're both friends of mine. I think you're both fine public servants. I think that this election is so important that I'm just gonna watch what you guys do. I'm not gonna make a decision early. I want to see how people respond. I'm gonna watch the debates. And I'll make a decision after that."

O confirms exactly what we know about Powell's endorsement. That he waited to see who'd have the most momentum and then made his choice. If Powell was actually a man of courage and conviction, he would have endorsed O from the beginning.

15 posted on 10/20/2008 12:01:19 PM PDT by Tidbit (Shoot low boys, they're riding Shetland Ponies.)
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To: pissant

If he has not already.


16 posted on 10/20/2008 12:01:50 PM PDT by jrooney (I am not voting for Spread the Wealth/Senator Government. I am voting for the War Hero and Baracuda.)
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To: pissant
Isn't the Antichrist considered the messiah first, then later found to be who he really is? Maybe someone in the media will ask the messiah who he really is.
17 posted on 10/20/2008 12:01:57 PM PDT by odin2008 (EVIL TRUMPHS WHEN GOOD MEN DO NOTHING)
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To: F15Eagle

The tides of expectations are rising dramatically and, should BO be elected, we will see the fastest buyer’s remorse in American history.

After a short honeymoon, even the media will start being even-handed with BO - just as they were on Clinton. Nothing on ideology, of course, just mundane stuff. But then it’s too late. The MSM delivered this inept socialist to us on a silver platter.

The MSM hates everyone, it’s just that they hate conservatives more passionately due to ideology - which is a huge distinction.


18 posted on 10/20/2008 12:02:25 PM PDT by mwl8787
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To: pissant

This is disturbing:

“LAUER: Yeah, yeah “That one,” John McCain’s words. People have called you “The Savior,” “The Messiah,” “The Messenger of Change.” The expectations have been raised to such a level. Some people say you’re partly responsible because of your confident attitude. If you are, as you just say, lucky enough to be elected the next president are you going to have to consciously manage expectations, during the first several months of your administration?

OBAMA: Yes. Even before I’m sworn in. Not in terms of what I think we can accomplish long term but I think it’s very important to understand that we’re not going to reverse all these problems overnight.”

Wouldn’t you, if you were being named a Messiah, or Savior, at least disavow the rhetoric?

That he didn’t is disturbing.

Messianic Complex? Very disturbing.


19 posted on 10/20/2008 12:02:31 PM PDT by OpusatFR (Retiring to my swamp for the next decade on November 5, 2008)
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To: Bigh4u2

Perhaps that should have been, “For chissel, or shizzel,... it was supposed to be the rap comment meaning something like for sure, but I may have missed the mark. A wood carving tool isn’t exactly what I had in mind.


20 posted on 10/20/2008 12:04:25 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Is Obamanation what our founding fathers, our fallen men in combat, and Ronald Reagan had in mind?)
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