Friday, June 06, 2008

Obama to Congress - I'll Whoop 'Em, Don't Mess With Me



Charming. [ugh.] Given the amount of ignorant crap he's spouted on the campaign trail, I'm sure he didn't realize that actually happened some 150 years ago.

On May 22, 1856, [Preston] Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner with his Gutta-percha wood walking cane in the Senate chamber because of a speech Sumner had made three days previous criticizing President Franklin Pierce and Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas ("Bleeding Kansas"). In particular, Sumner lambasted Brooks' kinsman, Senator Andrew Butler, who was not in attendance when the speech was read, describing slavery as a harlot, comparing Butler with Don Quixote for embracing it, and mocking Butler for a physical handicap.

Elsewhere in Obamaland, we have this creepy piece: Is Obama an enlightened being?

No, it's not merely his youthful vigor, or handsomeness, or even inspiring rhetoric. It is not fresh ideas or cool charisma or the fact that a black president will be historic and revolutionary in about a thousand different ways. It is something more. Even Bill Clinton, with all his effortless, winking charm, didn't have what Obama has, which is a sort of powerful luminosity, a unique high-vibration integrity.
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Here's where it gets gooey. Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.

This is where I stand firm and start screaming from the rooftops: STAY AWAY!!! HE IS NOT THE MESSIAH!!! MESSIAH HAS COME IN THE PERSON OF JESUS FROM NAZARETH!!!

Yeesh, liberal ignoramus freakazoids!

12And I will keep on doing what I am doing in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things they boast about. 13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ. 14And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.--2 Corinthians 11:12-15

ETA: Jonah has a great humor piece on this at NRO.

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