…but they really look like idiots now:
“The extraordinary outpouring of celebration, joy, and hope all over the world at this election is something I could never have imagined in my lifetime,” according to Professor Brinkley.”There’s a discipline to Obama that is so extraordinary,” he raved. And then he added: “I don’t think we’ve had a president since Lincoln who has the oratorical skills that Obama has. Obama has that quality that Lincoln had.”
Remnick, too, compared Obama’s rhetorical skills to Lincoln. The campaign also “shows him in a decision-making mold that is very encouraging.” Obama demonstrates a “receptivity to ideas outside the frame” and possesses a “worldview that allows for complexity.” He “assumes a maturity in the American public” and possesses “great audacity.” And not to believe Obama’s election will have “enormous effect” on the streets of Cairo, or Nairobi, or Jerusalem is “naive.” We were dealing, after all, with a tranformational president unlike any in our lifetime.
On and on it went, to the point that Remnick finally had to say, “We’ll climb out of the tank soon.” And while Rose’s guests inserted a qualifier here and a caveat there, reminding viewers Obama’s greatness as a chief executive still had to be proved, the infatuation with America’s 44th president is unmistakable.
Since then, the Obama presidency has suffered an enormous erosion in support. In this country, Democrats in 2010 experienced the worst electoral thrashing since the early part of the 20th century. In the Arab world, President Obama is less popular than his predecessor. Obama’s ineptness in the debt ceiling debate has infuriated his own party; so has his lack of leadership. Even Obama’s vaunted communications skills are being roundly criticized.
And then there was David Brooks’ admiration of his pants crease.
come on matthew’s tingle comment was the jumptheshark moment
All the cool kids and super-smart people were for Obama, in part because he was so much like them. At least that’s the story they bought. Not everyone bought into that line, of course, and now we get to say, as Capt Kirk once said, I’m laughing at the superior intellect.
As soon as I noticed the “cult of personality” in early 2008–entirely pumped up by the media–I knew we were in very serious trouble.
Not to mention the dozens of photos in the MSM showing his head surrounded by a halo. That was well beyond any conventional definition of “creepy”.
rickl,
especially for the atheist MSM, to show the halo, it’s creepy. People who hate the very idea of any God, embracing his second coming generally ends with a purge, pogrom or holy war. People new to ANY religious awakening are the most zealous. Obama supporters and the MSM weren’t necessarily new to his ideas, but they were new to worshiping someone at that level. Clinton was an unknown, crying in the wilderness compared to the build up Obama got.
Jones, Koresh, and Obama, America’s great Saviors!
None of what he is about can come to any good, and I’m wearing my “Got Bullets?” t-shirt as I write this. I just question how many of his followers and innocent bystanders the current Messianic overlord will take with him when he exits the stage.
They never suffer or die alone.