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.
barrymania Greek style. Interesting use of parts for his upper cheeks. Not sure what it was all about. I think that's Joe Biden approaching from the left!
Updated to go with the new poll where the obamessiah outranks actual people that exist or have existed. I cannot believe folks fell/still are falling for this crap.
November 21, 2008
Messiah complex: a state in which the individual believes themselves to be or destined to become - the savior of the particular field, a group, an event, a time period, or in an extreme scenario, the world.
OBAMESSIAH: "I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal!!!
Messiah complex:This could also be the state in which a group views an individual as a messiah, such as followers of a cult leader. The cult leader doesn't have to claim to be a messiah, but if he is treated as such by his followers, it can also be classified as such.
Chris Matthews: "this election, the feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama's speech. My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often. No, seriously. It's a dramatic event."
Ezra Klein: "He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh"
Oprah Winfrey: "We're here to evolve to a higher plane"
Dinesh Sharma: "Many even see in Obama a messiah-like figure, a great soul, and some affectionately call him Mahatma Obama."
Spike Lee: "You'll have to measure time by `Before Obama' and `After Obama' & "Everything's going to be affected by this seismic change in the universe."
Mark Halerperin: [The obamerized press have a] "hidden desire to see [obamessiah's] face etched in stain glass and on Mt. Rushmore simultaneously.
Messiah complex:People with a messiah complex tend to see themselves as saviors to a specific group of people or a specific field, making claims of their own glory, or claiming a self-awareness of their own gift and how that gift can affect a group of people or a field of life.
OBAMESSIAH: "We've got a righteous wind at our backs!"
OBAMESSIAH:"... a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany ... and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Obama"
Messiah complex:In the most extreme cases, people with a messiah complex may see themselves as spiritual/religious messiahs with transcendent powers who are destined to save the world.
OBAMESSIAH: "We are the ones we've been waiting for."
OBAMESSIAH: "We are the change that we seek!"
OBAMESSIAH: "...this is our moment. If you will organize with me, if you fight with me... we willchange this country and we will CHANGE THE WORLD!"
It seems those folks who think barry has a halo weren't kidding. Harris Poll (online Jan 15-19) asked 2643 Americans who they most admired. Names were not provided.
1-barry aka black Jesus aka barry obama aka barack obama 2-The real Jesus 3-Rev. Martin Luther King. Jr 4-Ronald Reagan 5-George W. Bush 6-Abraham Lincoln 7-John McCain 8-John F. Kennedy 9-Chesley Sullenberger 10-Mother Teresa
This tiny one-time survey shows how important celebrity is in this culture. Nobody knows a thing about barry and he's done nothing to be admired for (and plenty to be disgusted with) but his face and merchandise is everywhere. People know who he is but when asked they can only come up with Change! Latest one I heard say it was Lisa Leslie and she admitted to Tivo-ing coverage and running home to watch it.
Every other person on the list one can name why they would be admired and what they did/have done to be so considered.
Here's a small sampling of his cult followers' art work. I am only certain that two are jokes.
I remember seeing this in NEWSWEEK when rev wright was telling the truth. Does the obamessiah belong to any church now that he doesn't need the black vote? Or does he have his own?
Well...then there's this. A naked breasted white woman (Eve? Mary Magdalene? Nanci Pelosi? Claire McCaskill?) wrapped in the American flag with the obamessiah appearing in the clouds and the adoring masses kneeling at his feet. You can't possible laugh at this because somebody spent hours upon hours imaging and creating this certain he'd have an audience for it. I wonder what Mr Phallic Delusion Bob Herbert sees? And has anyone considered what his daughters think/will think of this? Mrs obamessiah?
And this one has to be seen to be believed - especially his little minions committing fraud under the watchful eye of the their messiah. Big Brother, Where Art thou?
Now the Land of Lincoln is the Land of Obama. For $50 you can get his face on a temporary (60 days) license plate. But this merchandising is for a good cause and doesn't go to barry. $40 goes to libraries and the state's i-READ program, a summer reading program for kids. The other $10 pays the inmates' salary pounding them out. How long do you think they will last on people's cars before somebody rips them off and starts selling them on eBay?
Well this is going to save a lot of bloggers a lot of work. Might even put some out of work. Politifact has put together a "Obameter" to keep track of barry's promises and whether he keeps them. They compiled 500. And they've got a handy little RSS to keep up to date. Maybe we'll add it.
It's a cheat sheet for barry because he's made so many and so many "revisions" and "refinements" he probably can't remember where he ended up. I've got a post on FISA somewhere I have to find. Famous last (?) words: X will never happen when I am president!
CATEGORIES: No Action In the Works Stalled
Promise Kept Compromise Promise Broken
If he sticks to his MO of obamanating "compromise" will be the largest category followed by promises broken.
barama matthews, Michelle Bernard and Buchanan are sitting around like gladiators waiting to see the show. Chuckie T is all aglow because barry called on him and called on him by name. C'mon - he knows everyone at MSNBC. He has also (for the first time I have heard) - mentioned barry's obamanating. He called it wiggle room. Before is was "redefining his position". But now Chuckie's upset because it's happening to him. Why do these people think barry thinks anyone is special other than himself?
CHUCKIE T: He is very adept at this - at leaving himself plenty of outs. He doesn't seem very often shut doors. It's tough, of course, when you only get four questions to try to and shut off a door as a question.
barama then asked him about Gaza and whether chuckie got something out of barry in terms of his questioning.
CHUCKIE T: Not enough. I'll be honest...he used one president at a time, but it's still in contradiction to what he's doing with the economy. And he tried to explain the difference between the economy and Gaza....But then is his silence delaying the cease fire because the parties at the table are saying, well it sounds like obama has his own opinions, let's wait till he's in office...
In this case, I think barry's silence was prescripted. I believe the US is using this transition to their advantage to not have a set plan forcing the arab world and Europe to handle something alone for a change. Anyway barama has to open his big mouth though I wasn't expecting this.
BARAMA: Chief White House correspondent for NBC News, Chuck Todd, who just lost his virginity, I think it's fair to say out there. I love the fact you're out there one on one with the president.
CHUCKIE T: You know, Chris, you just did a You Tube moment [or a quote of the day] You're killing me. You're killing me with that You Tube moment. I think Jon Stewart just got his clip for the night.
I'll have to go look to see if Chuckie was right...
Courtesy of MICK DUMKE at the Chicago Reader's blog Clout City.
YEAR
OFFICE
ELECTION
OPPONENTS
RESULT
1976
Illinois comptroller
primary
Michael Bakalis
Lost
1978
Illinois comptroller
primary
Richard Luft
Won
1978
Illinois comptroller
general
John Castle
Won
1982
Illinois comptroller
primary
none
Won
1982
Illinois comptroller
general
Cal Skinner Jr.
Won
1984
U.S. Senate
primary
Paul Simon
Lost
1986
Illinois comptroller
primary
Donald Clark
Won
1986
Illinois comptroller
general
Adeline Jay Geo-Karis
Won
1990
Illinois attorney general
primary
none
Won
1990
Illinois attorney general
general
Jim Ryan
Won
1994
Illinois governor
primary
Dawn Clark Netsch, Richard Phelan
Lost
1995
Chicago mayor
general
Richard M. Daley
Lost
1998
Illinois governor
primary
Glenn Poshard, John Schmidt
Lost
2002
Illinois governor
primary
Rod Blagojevich, Paul Vallas
Lost
His loss against Mayor Daley shouldn't be counted as a loss because he never had a chance of winning. Even barry couldn't beat Mayor Daley for mayor. The fact he has so many losses should speak to his relative "cleanness".
Note that in Burris' recent loss against Blagojevich - blago was already under investigation. With his eye squarely on Washington, barry chose to endorse Burris. And now, once again, out of political expedience - barry's MO - he ignores Burris and dumps the problem on somebody else -- the people who got him where he is. They have got to be truly pist at barry for leaving them to handle it and not giving them a hand. But they of all people should know who barry is - they made him who he is.
How could Burris become persona non grata when barry was willing to endorse him for governor?
Why are you letting barry get away with no comment on Hamas-Israel? He had no problem making an immediate statement on Mumbai. But he hasn't made a single comment other than there's only one president like he has on everything else. The timing of the bombing is not at all coincidental - just like Putin's attack on Georgia.
You asked for a copy. I couldn't find the old post so here. Go to Dr "Ron Polarik's" website for the technical breakdown of the alleged forgery. Note: it takes a while to load because of the enlarged photo evidence.
Just another example of Mr Unity's talk but no action. barry, the leader of the Democratic Party and soon to be leader of the free world, preaches about reaching across the aisle Kumbaya My Lord style. And yet, his soon-to-be minions wants to control--as in physically control--the Senate. They are willing to have a man, who was 100% legally appointed as barry's successor, be hauled off like a common criminal. It's not going to happen for one reason: Burris is black and would be - is - the only black senator in the senate. No matter what the Black Caucus believes, the court of public opinion will take over and dictate what happens ala barry's campaign.
This is why barry's fellow Chicago politicians are pist that hot rod pulled an end run. I find it a brilliant political move from a guy trying to leverage a deal. No surprise - except to barry's home state minions. they have started to emerge from their obamerized state and are seeing barry for what he is, always has been, and always will be: an avoider of action. He has done nothing to take control of the situation - which is in no way surprising - but they somehow believed he would handle it for them. Obamerism at its finest.
79% of The American People somehow believe that barry is great leader. CNN writes, misleadingly, that "Obama's current approval rating is also more than 50 points higher than President Bush's current approval rating, which now stands at 28 percent --- with 71 percent disapproving of the way Bush is handling his job as president."
Thing is -- barry has done nothing but defer to Bush as in "one president at a time". He's picked a bunch of excellent proven folks - which he needs because he has no practical experience with anything - but has stressed that the policy will be coming from him. Anyone know what his present views are?
Anyway here's what the good folks in the Senate plan on doing if the legally appointed junior Senator from Illinois, Roland Burris shows up next Monday for his first day of work.
Burris will not be allowed on the Senate floor, according to this aide and a Senate Democratic leadership aide....if Burris tries to enter the Senate chamber, the Senate doorkeeper will stop Burris. If Burris were to persist, either trying to force his way onto the Senate floor or refusing to leave and causing a scene, U.S. Capitol Police would stop him, said the aide.
"They (police) probably won't arrest him" but they would call the sergeant-at-arms."
Now here's what's truly odd:
The senate sergeant-at-arms, Terrance Gainer, served in the Illinois government at the same time as Burris. Gainer was the director of the Illinois State Police from 1991-95. Burris was the Illinois attorney general from 1991-95.
How many phone calls has he been getting? I had no idea there was a sergeant-at-arms. There's a lot of things I had no idea of. I wonder if he will make folks check their shoes at the door.
BURRIS:
[I am] not going to create a scene in Washington. We hope it's negotiated out prior to my going to Washington.
We're certainly going to make contacts with the leadership to let them know that the governor of Illinois has made a legal appointment. And that I am currently the junior senator for the State of Illinois. And we're hoping and praying that, you know, they will see the reason in appointing me as a very qualified, capable, able and ready-to-serve individual.
And it gets odder still - Blagojevich is allowed as sitting governor to enter the senate and stroll around. He can't vote or address the Senate but he can strut and "enjoy the limelight" has he has been "the last couple of weeks". Do not count him out. Especially if Lt Governor, Pat Quinn keeps on proclaiming that Blagojevich will be convicted and impeached.
It has been brought to my attention that the videos are not included in all the posts. I imported our original site from blogger. Wordpress uses a different embedding method but most of the videos are from You Tube and they should have the link within the "courtesy of". The original posts have the videos embedded in them at Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias on blogger. It is an impossibility to go through and re-embed the videos. I apologize for the inconvenience - especially when the transcript of the video is provided and not the video. As far as the template, I would like to make the column wider and videos smaller but don't have the time to mess with it. Sorry. As far as the polls, they couldn't be imported either but you can still vote at the other site. Use the link above. 88% of voters think proobama media bias exists. I'll try to get the rest of the numbers put together in a post.
The reason we moved was because of censorship by google...now it's Technorati...why?
This makes me angry. barry keeps comparing and modeling himself after President Abraham Lincoln, who was a man of character, conviction and great deeds. Someone who made his own decisions, acted on his words and stood by them. barry has done none of the sort. He imagines himself the second coming of Lincoln only barry is bringing The American People one step closer to a More Perfect Union through his postracial, post partisan propaganda. barry was not a great Illinois senator. He was not a great US Senator and yet he is going to be a great president?
What, folks, do you base this on? Benefit of the doubt?
barry’s attempt at Lincoln:
1-Announced his presidential bid on the steps of the State Capitol in Springfield.
2-He returned to announce his VP pick.
3-Team of rivals BS.
4-He plans to take the train from Philly to Washington before his swearing in. How else was Lincoln going to get there? Official campaign jet replete with campaign logo?
5-And will be sworn in on the Bible Lincoln was.
For $500, will he be outfitted in a top hat? Even it couldn’t house his massive ego. How is this man ever going to govern?
During his stumping he stopped at every historic presidential place he could - including his Philly Whistle Stop tour and his going to Indianapolis on the anniversary of MLK’s assassination. He’s making the movie version live. It’s presumptious and grossly messianic - just like everything else - and the proobamedia loves it. He was foiled only in Germany when they refused to let him speak at the wall.
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