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12-01-2008, 10:53 AM
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Which hero do we want Obama to be? Quote:
(CNN) -- America loves its heroes and Barack Obama has already become one. In fact, he's become several.
Remember, Obama hasn't taken office as president, only glimpsed the Oval Office as a visitor and won't take over until January 20.
But already, he's being compared to the most remarkable leaders the United States has ever had.
The way some Americans talk, they're getting five presidents in one.
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The Americans who are comparing him to those remarkable predecessors are putting a lot of faith in a man they barely know
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12-01-2008, 10:58 AM
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‘Obamamania’ on the Wane Quote:
December 1, 2008 - by Eric Scheie
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The more time I spend in Berkeley, California (where I am on an extended visit), the more I find myself wondering about something.
Is the left-wing phenomenon known as “Obamamania” on the wane?
It might be too early to tell, but from what I’ve been reading and hearing, I see clear signs that it is. A number of leftist commentators have worked themselves into quite a lather over Barack Obama’s apparent “centrism” — especially his failure to appoint “progressives” (code language for far leftists).
Things have come a long way since the San Francisco Chronicle’s Mark Morford mythologized Barack Obama as a “powerful luminosity, a unique high-vibration integrity” in a piece which noted approvingly that “spiritually advanced people” saw him as approaching Godhead — as a magical “Lightworker”:
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.
Whether Morford still seeks the beatification of St. Barack, I don’t know, but these days his paper seems more to be playing the role of devil’s advocate. A recent piece (headlined as “Obama Team Heavy On Centrists — Economic appointments make some Republicans happier than liberals” at the web site) grimly noted Republican praise, and liberal skepticism:
While Republicans were praising Obama’ economic team (Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H. said Obama demonstrated “strong and early leadership by his choices), liberal were more skeptical. Noting the heavy reliance on former Clinton administration officials, including Geithner and Summers, Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, said both men “supported policies that got us here. They were big fans of financial deregulation, they didn’t take financial bubble seriously - back then it was the stock-market bubble, but they said asset bubbles were not a big deal. The hope is they’ve learned something, and that remains to be seen.”
The Berkeley Daily Planet (”Party’s Over–Time to Get Back to Work“) wasted no time in taking Barack Obama directly to task. The first sentence (sounding eerily like a conservative Op Ed in the Washington Times) laments that “as the economic news goes daily from bad to worse, Obamamania continues unabated.” As the editorial reminds us, the fabled Kennedy of Camelot was a war hawk, and it might be time to take off the rose-colored glasses
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12-01-2008, 11:01 AM
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Gravest Threat to Obamaland: Disillusionment Quote:
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
— William Shakespeare
If Billy Shakespeare were still with us, I’m quite certain he would do us the favor of coining some nifty expressions to describe Obamaland and its inhabitants. I’ve no doubt whatsoever that the talented English bard would relentlessly pick the beast of Obama-worship down to the very marrow of its bones.
I’ve no doubt either that the witty Bill S. would take his first, perfectly aimed quill-strike at the inevitable disillusionment of Obama followers, possessed by utterly unrealistic expectations.
In the absence of William Shakespeare, I’ll have a whack at it myself:
Obamaland has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a supporter scorned.
Oh, where to begin? Obamaland is proving to be such a target-rich environment.
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12-01-2008, 11:37 AM
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Toby, that last one sounds like it was plagerized from Dennis Miller! He Does have a way with words.
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12-01-2008, 11:48 AM
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When one tries to be the end all be all for all, there is usually disillusionment.
BHO raised the bar so high and promised so much to so many, that when the reality actually hits, a lot of people will be very disappointed.
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12-01-2008, 12:03 PM
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Originally Posted by jimmy g  Toby, that last one sounds like it was plagerized from Dennis Miller! He Does have a way with words. |
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