Is Barack Obama the Messiah?: April 2007

Saturday, April 14, 2007

"This guy was God before I was"

When Morgan Freeman comes over to greet Obama, the senator begins bowing down both hands in worship. "This guy was president before I was," says Obama, referring to Freeman's turn in Deep Impact and, clearly, getting a little ahead of his own bio. Next, a nod to Bruce Almighty: "This guy was God before I was." (Okay, more than a little ahead.) But Freeman is eating it up. Leaning in, he tells the senator to win it. "I will," Obama replies. "That's why I'm running."

Men's Vogue April 2007.

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Obama Conversion Stories

""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

Heretics and Unbelievers

(Or, No, Dear, Barack Obama is NOT The Messiah)

Obama Messiah Watch @ Slate
Obama's Cocky Messianism", by Christopher Beam. Slate January 6, 2008.
Barack Obama: The Mania and the Mirage, by Glen Ford. CounterPunch January 19, 2007.
Dangerous demagoguery, by Thomas Sowell. Jewish World Review January 22, 2008.
"Name ONE accomplishment by Obama" Hannity & Colmes. February 4, 2008.
Barack Obama is not Jesus Talking Points Memo February 5, 2008.
"And Obama Wept", by Jake Tapper. ABC News. February 7, 2008.
Inspiration vs. Substance, by Joe Klein. Time Magazine February 7, 2008.
He's Got Obamaphilia Joel Stein. Los Angeles Times February 8, 2008.
Obama's first coming, by Geff Elliot. The Australian February 9, 2008.
Obama's Politics of Collective Redemption, by Kyle-Anne Shiver. American Thinker February 11, 2008.
Death of an Obasm RedState.com February 15, 2008.
I'm Immune to the Obama Swoon Christine M. Flowers. Philadelphia Daily News February 15, 2008.
The audacity of hype: Just what else has Obama wrought?, by Charles Krauthammer. Boston Herald February 15, 2008.
The Totally Coolest Candidate Ever: Can Obama become too hip for his own good?, by John Dickerson. Slate February 15, 2008.
When the Magic Fades, by David Brooks. New York Times February 19, 2008.
Delusional Hope: The Obama Rapture, by Joel S. Hirschhorn. Atlantic Free Press February 22, 2008.
America starts to sober up from a heavy dose of Obamamania, by James Bone. Times [UK] February 25, 2006.
It’s All About Him, by William Kristol. New York Times February 26, 2008.
The Ron Paulization of Obama, by Jacob M. Victor. The Harvard Crimson February 27, 2008.

"Barack Obama and Me": It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator, by Todd Spivak. Houston Press February 28, 2008.

Obama’s Messianic Politics: Why his healer-redeemer rhetoric has a limited appeal, by Michael Knox Beran. National Review March 6, 2008.
Obama's Messiah Shtick American Thinker March 26, 2008
The Audacity of Vanity, by Charles Krauthammer. Washington Post July 18, 2008.
He ventured forth to bring light to the world: The anointed one's pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a miracle in action - and a blessing to all his faithful followers, by Gerard Baker. Times UK. July 25, 2008.

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"This guy was God before I was"

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