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More Messiah Boredom
Posted by Raven on July 20th, 2008
More evidence of the media growing tired of the Obama-Messiah Factor.
JUST LIKE the Obama girl, Obama has a crush on Obama.
Barack Obama always was a larger-than-life candidate with a healthy ego. Now he’s turning into the A-Rod of politics. It’s all about him.
He’s giving his opponent something other than issues to attack him on: narcissism.
A convention hall isn’t good enough for the presumptive Democratic nominee. He plans to deliver his acceptance speech in the 75,000 seat stadium where the Denver Broncos play. Before a vote is cast, he’s embarking on a foreign policy tour that will use cheering Europeans – and America’s top news anchors – as extras in his campaign. What do you expect from a candidate who already auditioned a quasi-presidential seal with the Latin inscription, “Vero possumus” – “Yes, we can”?
Obama finds criticism of his wife “infuriating” and doesn’t want either of them to be the target of satire. Tell that to the Carters, the Reagans, the Clintons, and the Bushes, father and son.
Ouch.
But what about McCain?
Republican John McCain has the opposite challenge. As a candidate, he’s shrinking, thanks to a series of gaffes, stumbles, and generally uninspiring speeches.
But McCain has one thing going for him: the appearance of modesty.
Part of it is physical. McCain is stiff and awkward, the result of age and injuries from his years as a prisoner of war. That, too, is a contrast to Obama’s sleek physique, the consequence of youth and a George W. Bush-like passion for working out.
But with McCain, there’s also the sense of a man who made mistakes in life and acknowledges them.
McCain’s humility comes through in his book, “Faith of my Fathers,” which he wrote at age 63, after completing a career in the US Navy and moving onto politics. Obama wrote the more self-reverential “Dreams from My Father,” after he was elected president of the Harvard Law Review.
The McCain campaign is beginning to jump on the ego issue. “I don’t know that people in Missouri are going to like seeing tens of thousands of Europeans screaming for The One,” a McCain aide quipped in response to Obama’s upcoming visit abroad.
I’ll give McCain the salute he deserved for what he has been through- much more than the well mannered, well manicured and soft hands of the Messiah.
The ONE is too arrogant. He hasn’t lived with any real humility or humbleness and this is becoming more clear to people. These issues, and his steadfast disrespect for all things patriotic, could end his chances of winning the THROWN he believe he is entitled to. Obama fits right in with the rock stars and Hollywood half witted but self-loving, larger than life, surreal folk. Perhaps he should consider a career in acting.
July 20th, 2008 at 9:51 am
The cult of personality surrounding Obama is quite frightening. I used to think that the crazies who tended to congregate around Ron Paul were somewhat unstable, but the lovefest and unquestioning devotion to the Church of Obama is almost unequaled by any government official that I can remember in the recent past. Heck, only the unquestioning loyalty to Al Gore and Climate change supersedes that of the Obamessiah.
And he sure as hell ain’t humble. Sure he tries to put that air on, but you can see by his actions that he believes he deserves to be coronated.
And McCain, I don’t think he has had that many “gaffes”, it is just that he is not given a pass on them as Obama has been.
July 20th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Yeah I’ve never seen such fondling of a candidate. It’s not good. It’s dangerous. But I think some people are seeing the light thru the glowing halo…a well orchestrated series of scripts designed by the Obama campaign to make him LOOK godly. It is an act. There are too many common themes here to it not be. Question is: Will the average liberal be able to see this for what it is and make an informed vote? And liberals will go with Obama because he is their guy- much like I have to vote McCain even though it makes me sick.