In the age of information we sometimes allow bizarre happenings to pass right over our heads. But this story and its implications below must not pass over a collective yawn. The scariest story of the 2008 presidential campaign is the virtual deification of Barack Obama.
What is happening that allows Sean Hannity to refer to Obama as “the Anointed One,” and “Apollo,” and Rush Limbaugh to call him the “Messiah?” Obama’s smooth words pointing to the future are distracting voters from noticing his complete lack of experience and qualification for the presidency. In that sense, what Obama is pulling off is nothing less than miraculous. In his book, “The Case Against Barack Obama,” David Freddoso cites numerous examples of the cult of Obama. Here are a few:
Chris Matthews, anchor at MSNBC, the one who gets “a thrill going up [his] leg,” when he sees Obama, said that, “‘I’ve never seen anything like this. This is bigger than Kennedy. [Obama] comes along, and he seems to have the answers. This is the New Testament.’”
Ezra Klein of The American Prospect, writes that Obama’s speeches “‘enmesh you in a grander moment, as if history has stopped,’” and make “‘you aware of its presence, and your role in it. He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh, over color, over despair . . . .’”
One cleric writes, “‘Obamian hope moves beyond the past and seeks to . . . create the future. It does not just wait for the future to come; it contributes to its shaping and coming. It Pulls the future to itself and pushes itself towards the future.’”
After a rally in Montana, the crowd had gone on after Obama, but one devotee “‘was so moved by the possibility of hope and change that he sat quietly in the stands and cried.’”
Unmitigated emotionalism over an unknown, unaccomplished, rookie half-term senator ought to warn us that something is not quite right.
Amanda Carpenter of TownHall.com relays the following: “The Drudge Report linked to the YouTube video declaring ‘Obama Kids Sing for Dear Leader’ Tuesday afternoon drawing much attention to a performance of 22 children, aged 5-12, wearing identical blue Obama shirts singing a 3-minute ode to the Democratic candidate. The performance was ‘inspired’ by Obama fundraiser and music teacher Kathy Sawada and filmed . . . in Venice, California.”
The “ode to Obama” sounds eerily like a church praise song; except the object of the adoration is none other than Obama – the one who will usher in the new era of hope and change and of happiness and freedom. The lyrics encourage listeners to “Sing for joy and sing abundantly,” because “Obama’s gonna change it. Obama’s gonna lead ‘em. We’re gonna change it and rearrange it. We’re gonna change the world.” The ode ends with children chanting, “Yes, we can,” followed by a solo. Let’s give it up for the forerunners of the Obama Youth.
When a man is turned into a god scary things happen. History shows that when mortal man is looked to as some kind of savior, the Pharaoh / Fuhrer ends up with absolute control, allowing no dissenting opinion. He alone can separate truth from falsehood.
That brings us to the surreal development in Missouri where “the Obama presidential campaign is asking law enforcement to target anyone who lies or runs misleading television ads during this presidential campaign.” That statement from a reporter of News 4 is part of the YouTube segment posted by Tom Delay on his blog of Sept. 29, titled, “Obama’s Criminalization of Politics.” A willing array of Obama-loyalist sheriffs and prosecutors across Missouri, known as the “Barack Obama Truth Squad,” have organized to criminalize the opposition’s words that are deemed untruthful. The Truth Squad will “remind voters that Barack Obama is a Christian who wants to cut taxes for anyone making less than $250K a year.”
The Truth Squad “will respond immediately” to offenders because, as Prosecutor Jennifer Joyce tells the reporter, “We don’t want people to get distracted . . . by divisive character attacks . . . we’re here to set the record straight.” Bob McCulloch, the prosecutor for St. Louis Co., states: “If they’re not gonna tell the truth, then somebody’s got to step up and say, ‘wait a minute, that’s not true, this is the truth.’” Fascist control inconceivably is coming home to roost in America – Obama style (see Jonah Goldberg’s book, “Liberal Fascism”).
In Obama’s world, political opinions can be criminalized if they’re not the correct (truthful) opinions.
Many people, of course, doubt that Barack Hussein Obama (oops, is it against the law to write his middle name?) is a Christian for any number of reasons. Obama would be the first president to have not been raised in a Christian home; notably, his influences are from a mishmash of agnostic, atheistic, Islamic, Catholic and moral relativistic sources. If Obama became a Christian at Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s anti-American church for any reason other than political opportunity with the Chicago machine, he nevertheless is not a Christian who holds traditional beliefs (based on his own statements and voting record).
Perhaps people have their own “truthful” reasons for not taking Obama’s claims at face value.
Similarly, if people want to believe that Obama would cut taxes for all people making less than $250K, they are free to believe; they are also free to believe in the man on the moon. Many learned economists reach for their stomachs in gut-wrenching laughter at the mention of Obama’s tax claims, noting his monumental government spending and entitlement proposals. Larry Elder responds to another Obama tax-related claim: “Obama says, without rebuttal, that his plan lowers taxes on ‘95 percent of working families.’ This is flatly impossible because 32 percent of income tax returns filed (some 43 million Americans) pay absolutely nothing in federal income taxes.” For many people, Obamanomics just doesn’t add up and smacks of grandiose prevarication from a radical leftist who would say anything to get elected; but don’t let the Truth Squad hear you “lying” against The One.
Blogger Phil Harris reminds us of an Obama speech given on July 2, where he said: “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian
. . . which smells to high heaven of the Hitler Youth, and the re-education activities of the Nazis.”
Now, it’s a far stretch to believe that Obama intends to become or could become a full-fledged dictator in the land of the free, but with the Congress controlled by Democrats and with far left leaders at the helm of both houses (Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid), it’s not such a stretch to imagine the far left agendas and ideologies of Obama, Pelosi and Reid making their way into the law books. And with a few Supreme Court vacancies likely in the next four years, the Democrats could readily install some of the most radical of the leftist justices (and, as history has shown, a far left Court amounts to a liberal dictatorship, controlling important moral-value-policies of the states out of Washington).
We’ve heard of Christian pastors being imprisoned in far-left regions of Europe for preaching against sinful acts – merely addressing homosexual behavior from a biblical context is considered hate speech. Apparently, Obama would add another item to the leftist hate speech list, as he is already challenging, by threat of government prosecution, speech directed at him that is deemed “untrue.” Say goodbye to free speech in the form of conservative talk radio.
Yeah, Obama’s “gonna change it and rearrange it.” He would make America into a place that many spellbound voters may wake up regretting.
Welcome to change we can believe in. Welcome to Obama Nation.
Copyright by Monte Kuligowski
