Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Is Obama Going Crazy?


The Moschiach Baruch Obomination is ready for his Horonation, I mean, Coronation.




Yes we joke around about the messiah's "Messiah" complex. No one can run for President without at least being a little full of themselves.
But then I read this piece by Jonathon Weisman at The Trail in WaPo and nearly spit up my coffee. I must confess to a momentary feeling of panic - as if I had fallen off a cliff and didn't know how far down the bottom was.We can't seriously be contemplating electing this megalomaniac president, can we?


In his closed door meeting with House Democrats Tuesday night, presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama delivered a real zinger, according to a witness, suggesting that he was beginning to believe his own hype.


Obama was waxing lyrical about last week's trip to Europe, when he concluded, according to the meeting attendee, "this is the moment, as Nancy [Pelosi] noted, that the world is waiting for."


The 200,000 souls who thronged to his speech in Berlin came not just for him, he told the enthralled audience of congressional representatives. "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions," he said, according to the source.


On Wednesday morning, House leadership aides pushed back against interpretations of this comment as self-aggrandizing, saying that when the presumptive Democratic nominee said, "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America," he was actually trying to deflect attention from himself.


Of course they tried to "push back" against this type of talk from the candidate. The press has successfully downplayed Obama's similar remarks in the past. But there is no mistaking the fact that Barack Obama actually believes that his candidacy is the "moment the world has been waiting for" ...

6 comments:

Natasha said...

Been reading a book, "Nationalization of the Masses",

its in the other room or I'd post the entire title/author but anyway,

Obama is the 'myth' that people desire--and he's setting himself up as that

secular religion and the myth,

to create that GENERAL WILL OF THE PEOPLE,

identical to how fascism worked.

the similarities are just too overwhelming to just be accidental.

Natasha

Pastorius said...

It doesn't mean its planned. Every actor and rock star try to tap into the mythological. It's what gives a character resonance.

Obama is smart enough to do that.

However, some roles make madmen of the men who play them.

Ask Heath Ledger.

It's not a good idea to set oneself up as a Messiah. John Lennon had a little trouble with that one too.

Damien said...

Pastorius,

Obama my have some megalomania.

Pastorius said...

Maybe just a bit.

WC said...

Someone said, I don't member who, if you act like Christ someone gonna crucify you.

Pastorius said...

Yeah, I think there's something to that.