Nov 12, 2008

Someone in UK gets it! It’s the Obama cult

Sometimes it takes an outsider to see us for what we really are. We are often too close to the forest to see the trees.

Peter Hitchens can see us more clearly from across the pond. His Daily Mail article at the link below is titled, The night we waved goodbye to America ... our last best hope on Earth. It refers to the consequences of our presidential election.

Hitchens writes:

The swooning frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama (pictured) as President of the United States must be one of the most absurd waves of self-deception and swirling fantasy ever to sweep through an advanced civilization.

At least Mandela-worship – its nearest equivalent – is focused on a man who actually did something.

He certainly got that right! Obama’s accomplishments that have been made known (we actually know very little about him) consist of voting “present” during his stint as an Illinois state Senator and four years as a mostly absentee U.S. Senator. Much of that time he was out campaigning rather than tending to the nations business, the job for which he was elected.

Back to the Hitchens article:

I really don’t see how the Obama devotees can ever in future mock the Moonies, the Scientologists or people who claim to have been abducted in flying saucers. This is a cult like the one which grew up around Princess Diana, bereft of reason and hostile to facts.

It already has all the signs of such a thing. The newspapers which recorded Obama’s victory have become valuable relics. You may buy Obama picture books and Obama calendars and if there isn’t yet a children’s picture version of his story, there soon will be.

His cliché-stuffed, PC clunker of an acceptance speech suffered badly from nerves. It was what you would expect from someone who knew he’d promised too much and that from now on the easy bit was over.

And it was interesting how the President-elect failed to lift his admiring audience by repeated – but rather hesitant – invocations of the brainless slogan he was forced by his minders to adopt against his will – ‘Yes, we can’. They were supposed to thunder ‘Yes, we can!’ back at him, but they just wouldn’t join in. No wonder.

Yes we can what exactly? Go home and keep a close eye on the tax rate, is my advice. He’d have been better off bursting into ‘I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony’ which contains roughly the same message and might have attracted some valuable commercial sponsorship.

Yes, it’s the cult of Obama that outsiders can see plainly. It won’t be long before most will be able to see it here in America as well. By then all that will be left for those who voted for him will be buyers remorse.

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