SilverNRed Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 I'm pretty sure this isn't a parody. Link Barack Obama isn't really one of us. Not in the normal way, anyway. This is what I find myself offering up more and more in response to the whiners and the frowners and to those with broken or sadly dysfunctional karmic antennae - or no antennae at all - to all those who just don't understand and maybe even actively recoil against all this chatter about Obama's aura and feel and MLK/JFK-like vibe. To them I say, all right, you want to know what it is? The appeal, the pull, the ethereal and magical thing that seems to enthrall millions of people from all over the world, that keeps opening up and firing into new channels of the culture normally completely unaffected by politics? 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. Dismiss it all you like, but I've heard from far too many enormously smart, wise, spiritually attuned people who've been intuitively blown away by Obama's presence - not speeches, not policies, but sheer presence - to say it's just a clever marketing ploy, a slick gambit carefully orchestrated by hotshot campaign organizers who, once Obama gets into office, will suddenly turn from perky optimists to vile soul-sucking lobbyist whores, with Obama as their suddenly evil, cackling overlord. 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 man writes for a newspaper. Are you rolling your eyes and scoffing? Fine by me. But you gotta wonder, why has, say, the JFK legacy lasted so long, is so vital to our national identity? Yes, the assassination canonized his legend. The Kennedy family is our version of royalty. But there's something more. Those attuned to energies beyond the literal meanings of things, these people say JFK wasn't assassinated for any typical reason you can name. It's because he was just this kind of high-vibration being, a peacemaker, at odds with the war machine, the CIA, the dark side. And it killed him. Now, Obama. The next step. Another try. And perhaps, as Bush laid waste to the land and embarrassed the country and pummeled our national spirit into disenchanted pulp and yet ironically, in so doing has helped set the stage for an even larger and more fascinating evolutionary burp, we are finally truly ready for another Lightworker to step up. Bring on the evolutionary burp, baby! Woooo!!! Five more months of this crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacka Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 It really is hard to watch someone be mentally ill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivier in france Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 I'm pretty sure this isn't a parody. Link This man writes for a newspaper. A SF paper it's way different than a normal newspaper! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivier in france Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 I'm pretty sure this isn't a parody. Link Five more months of this crap. after 8 years of GWB crap don't you think it's fair that it should be your turn to suffer?!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the command to restore and build Washington until Obamessiah the Prince, there shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublesome times." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Specifically, he's a Level 7 Lightworker. If he kills three more orcs he reaches level 8, which gives him +6 charisma and an additional "Change" spell... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Specifically, he's a Level 7 Lightworker. If he kills three more orcs he reaches level 8, which gives him +6 charisma and an additional "Change" spell... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly the Dog Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 I'm pretty sure this isn't a parody. Link This man writes for a newspaper. Hopefully not for long. I have to think that this dude was not watching Obama, he was sniffing glue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justnzane Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Hopefully not for long. I have to think that this dude was not watching Obama, he was sniffing glue in a gay bath house with his husbands. Fixed for the San Franciscan impaired Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 I got a good chuckle out of this one yesterday "I face this challenge with profound humility and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people … . I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal … . This was the moment – this was the time – when we came together to remake this great nation." It's a good thing he's facing it with "profound humility," But mark it in your calendars: June 3, 2008 – the long-awaited day, after 232 years, that America began to provide care for the sick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pBills Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 I love this McCain quote... And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat? Oui. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 I got a good chucle out of this one yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 "if this nation is so great, why do we have to remake it?" Change anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivier in france Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 I love this McCain quote... "And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win?" Frightning... Does McVain actually think the US are fighting Al Qaida in Irak or is it just trying to manipulate an ignorant part of the american voters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacka Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 Frightning... Does McVain actually think the US are fighting Al Qaida in Irak or is it just trying to manipulate an ignorant part of the american voters? Frightening ... Just who do you think we are fighting in Iraq? Of course France isn't fighting anyone because they took kickbacks during the "food for oil" program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivier in france Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 Frightening ... Just who do you think we are fighting in Iraq? Shiits who hate Al Qaida even more than you. oh and by the way WE are fighting Al Qaida and his friends... we are currently sending more troops to Afghanistan ... but if you do not need our help just tell us... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 Frightning... Does McVain actually think the US are fighting Al Qaida in Irak or is it just trying to manipulate an ignorant part of the american voters? McVain, that's almost as clever as McBush Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivier in france Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 McVain, that's almost as clever as McBush i think i should trademark the expression... I should win a fortune in royalties during the next 6 months! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justnzane Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 Frightening ... Just who do you think we are fighting in Iraq? Of course France isn't fighting anyone because they took kickbacks during the "food for oil" program. To quote many people that have actually been over in Iraq, we are not fighting true Al Qaeda there. Instead, we are fighting pissed off Middle Eastern Muslims that are calling themselves Al Qaeda, but truly have no affiliation with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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