Un-freakin-believable.
If I were coming up with a recipe for despotism, isn’t one of the first things on the dto-do list claiming some mantle of divinity. And then control the press. Hey, we’ve got a two-in-one deal here.
HT Newsbusters
Update 1:41 p.m: National Review has a funny take on this with a parody cover of Newsweek.
June 6, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Some would argue that the press is controlled by corporations, not by liberal politicians.
June 6, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Excuse me for the second post, but I just found these and decide to offer them as two pieces of evidence that the media is not universally liberal. Feel free to counter the links.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/200906050021
http://mediamatters.org/research/200906030044
June 6, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Has an eerie 'here comes the antichrist' feel too it, doesn't it?
June 6, 2009 at 4:52 pm
I think we have a lot to be concerned about, but I also think that Obama is really only seen this way by a few people. I really don't think that the majority of the country, and certainly not the world, sees him this way. Of course the people that want to deify him do have the floor for the time being, but isn't it interesting how the blogosphere, talk radio, and the "fringe" media, are booming, and the MSM is struggling to keep it's head above water? I'm thinking Barry has a smaller flock than it would seem.
June 6, 2009 at 5:37 pm
LOL. Media Matters.
June 6, 2009 at 6:28 pm
"and certainly not the world, sees him this way."
Jennifer, you wouldn't say that if you lived here in Europe. I've never seen anything like this level of worship…
June 6, 2009 at 6:54 pm
SCHEMA ISRAEL ADONAI ELOHEYNU, ADONAI ECHAD.
June 6, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Well, as others have said, this is going to end badly.
I remember feeling much the same way about JFK, his classiness and wit, caught up in the the incredible euphoria, charmed and enthralled with Camelot redivivus. Only there wasn't this 50/50 divide over him. Practically the whole country was in the tank for him.
While I was filling out an app to work in the Post Office ("Now I am going to be working for the President!" Brother…) the news of his assasination came.
The bus ride home that evening. We were all in mourning. Total, somber silence. In fact, it has long been my thesis that with that day we plunged into a national despair that eventuated in Woodstock, Haight Ashbury, the plunge into the drugs and immorality that have plagued us increasingly ever since.
"Put not your trust in princes."
One way or another, he is coming off that pedestal- and it won't be pretty. "Our God is a jealous God."
June 6, 2009 at 9:13 pm
FWIW, Kennedy wasn't all that wildly popular. History shows he lost the 1960 election, but mob interference in Illinois ended up giving him the electoral victory over Nixon.
June 6, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Right, but after the election it was a different story:
From the Wikipedia article on presidential approval ratings:
Highest average approval rating
John F. Kennedy holds the record with 70.1%.
Franklin D. Roosevelt is the second highest with 66%.
Dwight D. Eisenhower is third highest, with 65%.
Barack Obama is fourth highest with 64%.
June 6, 2009 at 10:09 pm
I wonder if Barry is blushing…most of us should be puking. Shall we all recall the very first commandment? Not only does this Newsweek twerp insult Judeo-Christianity, he also does the same to Islam. We need to bring back horse whipping as a punishment for moral cretins like Evan Thomas.
1 And the Lord spoke all these words: 2 I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth. 5 Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:
4 "A graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing"… All such images, or likenesses, are forbidden by this commandment, as are made to be adored and served; according to that which immediately follows, thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them. That is, all such as are designed for idols or image-gods, or are worshipped with divine honour. But otherwise images, pictures, or representations, even in the house of God, and in the very sanctuary so far from being forbidden, are expressly authorized by the word of God. See Ex. 25. 15, and etc.; chap. 38. 7; Num. 21. 8, 9; 1 Chron. or Paralip. 28. 18, 19; 2 Chron. or Paralip. 3. 10.
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Exodus, 20 (Douay-Rheims)
June 7, 2009 at 2:40 am
Obama just might be the false prophet that appears before the anti-Christ. Satan has put the fork into our collective souls and we're just about cooked! I agree with the other posters: "Our God is a jealous God." … this ain't gonna be pretty.
June 7, 2009 at 5:36 am
I just said to my husband today that pride comes before the fall…. indeed, it is not going to be pretty. We are witnessing events of massive proportions, natural ones as well as supernatural ones.
Jesus gave us the Divine Mercy Devotion for a reason. We are going to need it.
Blessings, Mum26
June 7, 2009 at 12:29 pm
…and Obama just might nothing more than another misguided politician.
June 7, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Regardless of how many people regard Obama as a "messiah" or "god," what has been Obama's reaction to this adulation? Has he asked people NOT to refer to him this way? Has he distanced himself from such pronouncements? Not that I have seen, and this is perhaps the more frightening aspect of all this.
Calling (or considering) Obama god is blasphemy, and no good will come of it. The people of God must work against such an attitude, and for bringing out the truth about Obama and what he stands for. Perhaps then God's mercy will spare us.
June 8, 2009 at 4:26 am
Why aren't the atheists upset with this comment?
Why aren't they jumping up and down about the separation of Church and State?
Ought we to be outraged, that someone with divinity would dare to take on a position of power and authority?
June 8, 2009 at 3:02 pm
I don't know if he's the anti-Christ, he definitely appears to be Jim Jones come again.
I hope people remember the price that his followers paid for drinking all of HIS Kool-Aid. My guess is that none of us will fare much better with this batch.
June 8, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Because the State is their Church.
June 8, 2009 at 4:05 pm
I don't think that Obama thinks he's God, necessarily… but he does tend to think of himself as a Roman Emperor, and those guys all claimed a cult of divinity, so y'know – hey, why not? What's the harm?
Then the next thing you know, a horse becomes a Senator (or a horse's patoot, in Specter's case) and the Visigoths sack your captial city.
Remember, thou art mortal, Mr. President. And put down that fiddle.
June 8, 2009 at 9:57 pm
I wish that I could have seen the reaction to that comment after he said it.
How did Chris Matthews react to that?