This actually appeared in a major American newspaper:
No, it's not merely his youthful vigor, or handsomeness, or even inspiring rhetoric. It is not fresh ideas or cool charisma or the fact that a black president will be historic and revolutionary in about a thousand different ways. It is something more. Even Bill Clinton, with all his effortless, winking charm, didn't have what Obama has, which is a sort of powerful luminosity, a unique high-vibration integrity.Dismiss it all you like, but I've heard from far too many enormously smart, wise, spiritually attuned people who've been intuitively blown away by Obama's presence - not speeches, not policies, but sheer presence - to say it's just a clever marketing ploy, a slick gambit carefully orchestrated by hotshot campaign organizers who, once Obama gets into office, will suddenly turn from perky optimists to vile soul-sucking lobbyist whores, with Obama as their suddenly evil, cackling overlord.
Here's where it gets gooey. Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.
The unusual thing is, true Lightworkers almost never appear on such a brutal, spiritually demeaning stage as national politics. This is why Obama is so rare. And this why he is so often compared to Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., to those leaders in our culture whose stirring vibrations still resonate throughout our short history.
Does it surprise you that the newspaper this appeared in was the San Francisco Chronicle? I didn't think so.
Look, if Obamagasmatics want to talk and write this way about the Democratic nominee, fine by me. I enjoy reading it (and the superfine "Is Obama the Messiah?" site is the best place to go to keep up with their worshipful derring-do). But don't be surprised when this kookiness inspires a backlash among people who think that the messianic crap surely indicates that Obama is the Antichrist.
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Obama supporters still don't get it. Insulting remarks, constant accusations of racism, and statements like 'just get over it', simply antagonize those of us who voted for Clinton. It's the same tactics you over zealous Obama supporters used from day one. I also think Obama was selected, rather than elected, and the bias media has acted shamefully. I also don't think Obama is qualified to be President, and like millions of other Clinton supporters, I will not vote for Obama.
Obama supporters still don't get it. Insulting remarks, constant accusations of racism, and statements like 'just get over it', simply antagonize those of us who voted for Clinton. It's the same tactics you over zealous Obama supporters used from day one. I also think Obama was selected, rather than elected, and the bias media has acted shamefully. I also don't think Obama is qualified to be President, and like millions of other Clinton supporters, I will not vote for Obama.
For the last several days, I'm sensing subtle buyers remorse coming from Democrat circles. Am I surprised? No.
From the very onset, the Obama mirage has been fueled by the media, a media that didn't do it's job. They just couldn't make themselves do it.
There would be no buyers remorse if he had been actually vetted in the first place. But no, he wasn't, and the blind zeal to stick it to the REPUBS trumped all common sense.
Obama's rhetoric has never matched his actions. That should have been the big red flag that the press should have picked up on (I did) but they refused to do it. They couldn't, they were blinded.
Hillary and even Richardson for all their faults, actually had the kind of experience that might account for being qualified for the office of President. Obama has zilch.
Personally, I don't trust Obama. I can't look up to a guy who has done so little in life, and whose massive ego seems to overshadow all else. Who the hell writes two autobiographical book before they are 50 without having done anything remotely considered exceptional? And he now questions Clarence Thomas's qualifications? WOW! That takes a tremendous amount of cojones.
Lets face it, the identity politics of the left have driven this campaign. If Obama were white, he wouldn't have gotten very far, and it would have been Hillary waltzing to Denver.
This is the dirty little secret no one wants to confront or accept. The blind desire to see someone of color "succeed", in some desperate hope that it would make up for our past sins (of which none of us should be held accountable) and make things "right" has been Obama's trump card from the beginning, and he's played it like a Stradivarius. Liberal, hand-wringing, White Guilt amazingly enough, still has a vice-grip over the American left.
Oh, it's going to be a doozy of a Democrat Convention!
Beliefnet's tagline is "Inspiration, Spirituality, Faith." When was "Politics" added? Christ said, "My kingdom is NOT of this world." We are taught to be "in the world, but not OF the world." I defend your right to your opinion and to shout it from the mountaintops. But just as "Obamagasmatics" will "create a backlash" with their blind faith, so will the "Religious Right" turn people from discerning individuals into knee-jerk reactionaries eager to prevent a third Bush term.
Politically, I am independent. I don't support anyone because of their party affiliation. Spiritually, I am a Bible-believing follower of Jesus Christ. My conscience dictates my vote, not your rant against one candidate or the other. I exhort my fellow believers and citizens to do the same.
To Whom It May Concern:
It is now February of 2009. Barrack Obama is now President of the United States. After he has spent only 100 weeks in the United States senate where his accomplishments were minimal he has jumped from the Jr. Senator from Illinois ahead of many experienced politicians who have successful accomplishments during their lengthy political careers. So the question has to be asked how you promote a man to the highest office in the world based on rhetoric and a slogan.
If Obama was not elected on rhetoric and his famous slogan "change we need", then what exactly did the American people base their vote on? It could not have been any change or accomplishment of the past, because he was clearly a rookie in the political arena with little political achievements or success.
The changes Barrack Obama has made as president so far are not of substance. In fact, his changes are disturbing. His idealogy is socialism which is not the principles the United States was founded. Obviously, inflation, and many catastrophes in his presidency will have to occur before people come to the realization of who Barrack Obama really is. After the damage, inflation and lack of bossting the economy continue over his term as president, people will realize that President Obama can not walk on water after all. His race and ethicinity are not the issue here. The reality is that Barrack Obama was a young inexperienced politician who was not ready for the Presidency. He had not even become an accomplished senator yet. But Barrack Obama's biggest asset is his smooth and skillful speaking ability that enabled him to talk his way into the White House insteading of rightfully earning it. The election of Barack Obama is actually a sad and cruel joke. Unfortunately, time will have to teach or prove to many Americans the difference between achievements, experience, and proven accomplishments as opposed to rhetoric. I hope Americans do not repeat this mistake again and in the future they appreciate a candidate's life long accomplishments and world experience and vote on substance instead of a fancy slogan.
Robert Haines
Princeton, NJ
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