Evan Thomas (re: barry): “He’s sort of God!”

June 11, 2009

No kidding.

I haven’t read anything at NEWSWEEK since we started this blog in August (moving here to WordPress in mid-December) and it appears they are as – I really don’t know how to characterize it anymore. It’s gone on too long to still be considered a mancrush or a lovefest. I guess it’s a full blown cultish delusion. Don’t these people have anyone living with them in the real world to orient them as to their madness?

EVAN THOMAS is as enthralled as ever. He still believes barry is actually who NEWSWEEK has propagandized him to be: the obamessiah! The one the cosmos has been waiting for. The one who will make the oceans rise up and celestial choirs sing! The one who will bring Muslims and Jews together in harmony.

Here he is on Hardball with another poor delusioned soul, Chris Matthews, who agrees with him.

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EVAN THOMAS:

We were the good guys in 1984 – it hasn’t felt that way in recent years – so Obama’s had really a different task. We’re seen too often as the bad guys, and he has a very different job than Reagan. Reagan was all about America, and he talked about it.

Obama is ‘we are above that now’. We’re not just parochial, we’re not just chauvinistic, we’re not just provincial. We stand for something – I mean in a way Obama is standing above the country, above the world. He’s sort of God. He’s gonna bring all different sides together.

Ignorant columnists of the day: Richard Wolff & Evan Thomas &

Courtesy of Stephen Bliss / Bernstein and Andriulli for Newsweek

I'm surprised it's not: "In barry we trust". That's a stretch even for NEWSWEEK. Here's "Obama's Lincoln" by RICHARD WOLFFE & EVAN THOMAS. Not sure why it took two people to write - it's the same old propaganda.

"Two thin men from rude beginnings"? Stop trying to make barry's childhood sad and desperate. He was not poor - nor did he lack anything but his father - who he chose not to meet in person. That says more about barry than anything you'll find in NEWSWEEK.

The word came back from Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, who was sitting with Obama in Charlotte, N.C.: "Barack wants to lean into bipartisanship a little more. Even though the Democrats have won a great victory, we should reach out and be humbled by it. Figure out a good Lincoln quote to bring it all together."

Words not actions. And why couldn't barry talk to the man who fills up his teleprompter, which makes the pro-obama media swoon?

This is the only quote you need to read to know the cluelessness of this article. They clearly didn't hear barry's attempted roast of himself. "If I had to name my greatest strength I guess it would be my humility. Greatest weakness...it's possible that I'm a little too awesome." That, my friends, was not a joke.

"The most important quality may be humility, which both Obama and Lincoln repeatedly refer to as an essential virtue. Humility in this case is not to be confused with meekness or passivity. Rather, it comes from confidence. A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble—to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure of one's own judgment and self-worth to really listen and not be threatened by contrary advice.

He listens because he wants to cover himself - he wants someone else to ultimately take the heat. He is not in any way humble and the passivity is real - he has never acted and will try his very best to avoid it in the next four years. And that confidence = entitlement + narcissism = Messiah complex.

"Obama has unusual detachment for a politician. He observes himself as a kind of figure out of literature."

His detachment is real. He is an egomaniac who can't be bothered to rouse himself from his messianic delusions to help the peasants clinging to their guns and Bibles. He believes he is the reincarnation of Lincoln - only far superior in every way. He has allowed NEWSWEEK to propagandize his made-up and ever-changing background and spent the campaign trail trying to outdo each president. He even tried to equate himself to President Ronald Reagan in Germany. And for all his adulation - barry has done not a single thing.

"As a senator, Obama showed a notable unwillingness to take political risks by reaching across the aisle on controversial matters (in contrast to his presidential opponent, John McCain, who routinely sought bipartisan coalitions and was one of the Gang of 14)."

Hence the word obamanation. Forget the words - look at the (non) deeds. barry voted with his party 97% (29/30 key votes) and his dissenting vote did not made a difference. McCain, 266/335 - 79%. Look at the numbers: 30 vs 335 key votes. A senator who votes with his party 29/30 times and yet claims bipartisanship vs a senator who has proven his bipartisanship over history.

barry hasn't gotten to where he is because he is black? Senator Clinton is "tremendously qualified" for president, vice president and now Secretary of State. Imagine Senator Clinton trying to name barry to any cabinet position. Never happen. In fact - if barry were to have be enthe GOP VP pick - he would have been laughed at too.

"Obama's got a liberal voting record, and I don't know of any substantive issue where he's ever broken with his leadership," says Gingrich.

There you go. You folks finished with your books yet?

Evan Thomas on the barry he still doesn't know (but can write about with authority)

November 15, 2008 (long post)

Here's Evan Thomas saying that he didn't feel the neediness of Obama on the campaign trail. Does it get any more unenlightened? Obamerism at it's most well-conditioned.

THOMAS: Obama is extraordinarily contained. Most candidates you can feel their neediness -- give me the love, give me the love." (Hands drawing to self. Me. Me. Me.)

barry already had it because you were providing it. What kind of journalistic skills does this man have? He clearly doesn't have any people or body language skills. I used to wonder about folks who get drawn into Nigerian internet and pyramid schemes and cults. Not any longer.

THOMAS: Not with Obama. (He puts his hands over his chest in a pulling in protective fashion. You're not worthy of me.) There was much more self-contained. That he's controlled. It's kind of manipulative and a little cold in a way. It was hard to penetrate his tremendous self-possession. (= EGO = Messiah Complex)

DARIN BRISCOE: ...There's a lot that remains mysterious about him to me. He's a very difficult person to know well....He had to learn, sorta on the fly, that any misstatement he makes anything that he says that could be misconstrued in a negative way was likely to be construed that way by someone.

Where? In their notebooks? And after almost two years spent with this man--every day--a lot is still mysterious to him? And yet those bitter bowling alley babes were to trust barry because they heard him saying nothing at a rally? None of the pro-obama media have a clue who barry is because they've crafted his persona for him. And they don't have a clue what he's gonna do because he's done nothing but string them along and they followed happily like little sheep.

THOMAS: He didn't give us a whole lot to work with ("more" hand motion) in a way, generalistically. Uhh, (head down, smacks lips = doubt), you know, what's that going to be like when he's president? Well...he'll stay cool...I think...(Doubtful face). Which is an admirable and necessary quality in presidents (Voice changes - trying to justify.) Presumably, his White House will be less chaotic than Bill Clinton's was. (Eyebrows up = facial shrug = Not sure and hoping he's right.)

He is still saying I think..presumably...after they have been following him and writing about him in glowing knowledgeable terms since the beginning. Who believes these people? He's starting to doubt himself. But it's too late. The damage has been done and they are going to be held accountable for what happens...more likely what doesn't happen.

THOMAS: The American People are gonna also want to see a human side to him. And they are willing to cut him a lot of slack in the election 'cuz he had this message of hope and because McCain wasn't so great and they wanted change.

Said dismissively - like I fell for it too. I think he has finally realized how he was played. Curious how he phrased that. McCain wasn't so good and so they voted for barry and are willing to give him a break because what other option have they?

THOMAS: But, uh, they're also gonna want to see a real human being inside of obama and he's gonna have to find ways to show that...I think. (Puts head down. Guilty he hasn't seen it.) Uh, and in somebody who's that self contained (shaking his head = he was fooled) it's really hard to know what they are thinking (still shaking) and where they're really going. And (deep frowning = personal worry) I think there's still some question about that. (Nods = certain ending)

Now he has questions and doubt? Will he ever feel remorse of guilt in his complicity in promoting pro-obama propaganda? He got barry the win and now he has to cover himself as a citizen and editor for what he doesn't know about barry. It's good to connect the face with the words. His face gives him away...as do howie's and jonjon's and barry's. barry's convinced that his obamerized masses will follow him no matter what he says and they have...still are. Those of us rational beings see right through his empty words and we are still waiting for you to see the light instead of a halo.