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Obama the Great

Last updated on: June 7, 2014 at 5:11 am by Dave Griffey

Obama the Great 2014-06-07T05:11:00-04:00 Dave Griffey

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“We have an amazing story to tell,” she said. “This president has brought us out of the dark and into the light.”

– Michelle Obama

“Obama is, of course, greater than Jesus.”

– Politiken (Danish newspaper)

“No one saw him coming, and Christians believe God comes at us from strange angles and places we don’t expect, like Jesus being born in a manger.”

–Lawrence Carter

“Many even see in Obama a messiah-like figure, a great soul, and some affectionately call him Mahatma Obama.”

– Dinesh Sharma

“We just like to say his name. We are considering taking it as a mantra.”

– Chicago] Sun-Times

“A Lightworker — An Attuned Being with Powerful Luminosity and High-Vibration Integrity who will actually help usher in a New Way of Being”

– Mark Morford

“What Barack Obama has accomplished is the single most extraordinary event that has occurred in the 232 years of the nation’s political history”

– Jesse Jackson, Jr.

“This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”

– Barack Obama

“Does it not feel as if some special hand is guiding Obama on his journey, I mean, as he has said, the utter improbability of it all?”

– Daily Kos

“He communicates God-like energy…”

– Steve Davis (Charleston, SC)

“Not just an ordinary human being but indeed an Advanced Soul”

– Commentator @ Chicago Sun Times

“I’ll do whatever he says to do. I’ll collect paper cups off the ground to make his pathway clear.”

– Halle Berry

“A quantum leap in American consciousness”

– Deepak Chopra

“He is not operating on the same plane as ordinary politicians. . . . the agent of transformation in an age of revolution, as a figure uniquely qualified to open the door to the 21st century.”
– Gary Hart

“Barack Obama is our collective representation of our purest hopes, our highest visions and our deepest knowings . . . He’s our product out of the all-knowing quantum field of intelligence.”

– Eve Konstantine

“This is bigger than Kennedy. . . . This is the New Testament.” | “I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don’t have that too often. No, seriously. It’s a dramatic event.”

– Chris Matthews

“[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.”

– Toni Morrison

“Obama’s finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don’t even really inspire. They elevate. . . . He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh . . . Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves.”

– Ezra Klein

“Obama has the capacity to summon heroic forces from the spiritual depths of ordinary citizens and to unleash therefrom a symphonic chorus of unique creative acts whose common purpose is to tame the soul and alleviate the great challenges facing mankind.”

– Gerald Campbell

“We’re here to evolve to a higher plane . . . he is an evolved leader . . . [he] has an ear for eloquence and a Tongue dipped in the Unvarnished Truth.”

– Oprah Winfrey

“I would characterize the Senate race as being a race where Obama was, let’s say, blessed and highly favored. That’s not routine. There’s something else going on. I think that Obama, his election to the Senate, was divinely ordered. . . . I know that that was God’s plan.”

– Bill Rush

These and similar quotes might explain how perhaps one of the most incompetent and ineffective presidents in American history can still score a whopping 43% Approval in any poll. Perhaps it’s momentum. I mean, what are people thinking? Well, they’re not. I get the feeling we are a nation in a stupor. Things are bad. Not just economically, but across the board. For decades we’ve been told our nation sucks and always has sucked. A generation has grown up not caring, not being part, not belonging. Why care about a nation with so much badness in its past?

We’re plugged to electronic media and are losing our abilities to interact with the real world. Almost losing our abilities to understand that the real world and the internet are not one and the same – for now. The economy remains anemic. Our foreign policy is incoherent at best. Obama was supposed to be the Knight in Shining Armor, the Messiah, the man who God prays to every morning. And yet nothing. What has he accomplished? What is he doing? Does anyone care?

Most media outlets handle this by no longer reporting the news, but by focusing on as many other stories round the clock as possible. Wait for something – anything – to happen and then push everything else down to footnote status. Anyone notice that? There’s little to no mention about the plight of our nation. Just the latest incident that can keep focus away from the main problems. So a country filled with a growing number of people who don’t care, certainly aren’t going to be shocked into caring when the main source for information is doing what it can to avoid mentioning anything.

So 43%? Two decades ago, this stagnant and declining nation would be front page news, and poll numbers would be in the 30s at best. It’s a testament to the media strategy that they are this high, and yet perhaps there is a hope for the inner spark of humanity that despite the media’s best efforts, so many are finally waking up from the embarrassing delusion.

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