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June 9, 2008
church of obama
The savior is here! The Lightworkers is finally here to save us from our woes. I'm not sure what he's going to do, but it feels so good to believe. Welcome to the Church of Obama. Cast your cares on the altar of change. Change you can believe in. What kind of change is it? It doesn't matter. Change can only be positive! I take that back... Climate Change is bad, Obama change is good.
The best part of a campaign like the one ahead is that issues don't matter. Talking to a fervent Obama support is useless. This is a movement, a brand, and a feel-good experience. Things like logic and common sense are also useless. Obama has come from Illinois to save the world. He's going to talk to dictators until they understand our perspective. He's going to restore our place in the world. Everyone will love us again! The economy will rebound as the nation's confidence is restored and the Press has its Chosen One in the White House. The homeless will disappear from the headlines, every good story imaginable will be front-page news and it will all be because of Obama. Yes, the future fiscal outlook is grim and there's no energy policy. Obama doesn't know how to fix those problems, and during his presidency he'll only hasten the demise; however, won't it be a glorious eight years? We can feel good for a short while. He won't necessarily save us, but he will make us feel good again. If living in the present and feeling good are the most important priorities, then Obama truly is the greatest person ever to run for President. Mark Morford is a columnist in San Francisco. His article on Friday is one of the most classic insights into political mental illness
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.This kind of hyperbole is frightening and it's only June. It gets better. Here is what Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. had to say about Obama's nomination.
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.
"I cried all night. I'm going to be crying for the next four years," he said. "What Barack Obama has accomplished is the single most extraordinary event that has occurred in the 232 years of the nation's political history. ... The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance."Another chapter in the bible! There's nothing I can add to make that any more hilarious.
Posted by nemov at June 9, 2008 12:56 PM
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a stronger grasp of the nearly 300 year history of slavery and jim crow in this country might make jackson's hyberbole seem a little less crazy to you.
Posted by: brown at June 9, 2008 3:47 PM