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Originally Posted by NeedKarma
Who is saying he is christ or comes close to him anyway? That's just nonsense.
He seems to appeal to a great deal of people. We'll see come election I guess.
Who? If they haven't called him that they've described him as such. I've already pointed out his wife has said he is "the only one" who understands our problems and our broken souls. Andrew Sullivan paints a shamanistic portrait of the man:
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At its best, the Obama candidacy is about ending a war—not so much the war in Iraq, which now has a momentum that will propel the occupation into the next decade—but the war within America that has prevailed since Vietnam and that shows dangerous signs of intensifying, a nonviolent civil war that has crippled America at the very time the world needs it most. It is a war about war—and about culture and about religion and about race. And in that war, Obama—and Obama alone—offers the possibility of a truce.
David Ehrenstein describes him as the 'Magic Negro':
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But the same can't be said of most white Americans, whose desire for a noble, healing Negro hasn't faded. That's where Obama comes in... Like a comic-book superhero, Obama is there to help, out of the sheer goodness of a heart we need not know or understand. For as with all Magic Negroes, the less real he seems, the more desirable he becomes. If he were real, white America couldn't project all its fantasies of curative black benevolence on him."
Obama is better than civil rights:
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[I]t is beyond debate that an Obama win in 2008 would be by far the best thing that has happened to African-Americans, and to race relations, in more than 50 years.
Walter Shapiro at Salon.com reports that "Paul Tewes, Obama's Iowa coordinator, marveled, "It is something I've never seen before in politics. After people hear him speak, they say that they feel at peace."
People are swooning all over the man (and that doesn't even include his fainters in the audience):
“He walks into a room and you want to follow him somewhere, anywhere.” —actor George Clooney
“I’ll do whatever he says to do. I’ll collect paper cups off the ground to make his pathway clear.” —actress Halle Berry
“This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better. This young man is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow. If you look at Barack Obama’s audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed… A black man with a white mother became a savior to us. A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall.” —Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan
And the kicker that would have had a Republican, any Republican, laughed out of the country or hung from the highest tree, by Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill as reported in the NY Times:
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"I would characterize the Senate race as being a race where Obama was, let's say, blessed and highly favored," Mr. Rush said, chuckling. "That's not routine.
There's something else going on."
What was he suggesting?
"I think that Obama, his election to the Senate, was divinely ordered," Mr. Rush said, all other explanations failing. "I'm a preacher and a pastor; I know that that was God's plan. Obama has certain qualities that—I think he is being used for some purpose. I really believe that."
Not to mention, he sends a thrill up Chris Matthews' leg. I told you I come prepared.
