AND OBAMA WEPT. . .

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JAKE TAPPER, ABC - Inspiration is nice. But some folks seem to be
getting out of hand. It's as if Tom Daschle descended from on high
saying, "Be not afraid; for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy
which shall be to all the people: for there is born to you this day in
the city of Chicago a Savior, who is Barack the Democrat."

Obama supporter Kathleen Geier writes that she's "getting increasingly
weirded out by some of Obama's supporters.". . .

Describing various encounters with Obama supporters, she writes, "Excuse
me, but this sounds more like a cult than a political campaign. The
language used here is the language of evangelical Christianity - the
Obama volunteers speak of 'coming to Obama' in the same way born-again
Christians talk about 'coming to Jesus.'...So I say, we should all get a
grip, stop all this unseemly mooning over Barack, see him and the
political landscape he is a part of in a cooler, clearer, and more
realistic light, and get to work."

Joe Klein, writing at Time, notes "something just a wee bit creepy about
the mass messianism" he sees in Obama's Super Tuesday speech.

"We are the ones we've been waiting for," Obama said. "This time can be
different because this campaign for the presidency of the United States
of America is different. It's different not because of me. It's
different because of you."

Says Klein: "That is not just maddeningly vague but also disingenuous:
the campaign is entirely about Obama and his ability to inspire. Rather
than focusing on any specific issue or cause - other than an amorphous
desire for change - the message is becoming dangerously
self-referential. The Obama campaign all too often is about how
wonderful the Obama campaign is. "

The always interesting James Wolcott writes that "(p)erhaps it's my
atheism at work but I found myself increasingly wary of and resistant to
the salvational fervor of the Obama campaign, the idealistic zeal
divorced from any particular policy or cause and chariot-driven by pure
euphoria.". . .

Then there's MSNBC's Chris Matthews who tells Felix Gillette in the New
York Observer, "I've been following politics since I was about 5. I've
never seen anything like this. This is bigger than Kennedy. [Obama]
comes along, and he seems to have the answers. This is the New
Testament."

And behold, Obama met them and greeted them. And they came up and took
hold of His feet and worshiped Him.

The Holy Season of Lent is upon us. Can Obama worshippers try to give up
their Helter-Skelter cultish qualities for a few weeks?

At least until Easter, or the Pennsylvania primary, whichever comes
first...

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/02/and-obama-wept.html

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