The Cult of Barack Obama
by Ian Mosley
A foreign newspaper, the Australian News, is the first major media outlet to state something publicly that millions of Americans have been quietly saying to themselves: The Barack Obama phenomenon has reached the point where it is no longer political; it is a cult.
The Australian News reports: “How does a cult figure, in the eyes of some something akin to a messiah, make the transition to a political frontrunner - president even - where disappointment will soon crush what seemed to be a journey to a promised land? Looking into the faces of a more than 16,000-strong crowd in a basketball stadium in Hartford, Connecticut this week, the Mandela magic [sic] I’d seen before was there too. Black and white, and the youth; they appeared in a state close to rapture watching Obama speak. Here and there one could see women crying and the some men wiping away tears too.”
The explanation is at once quite simple and very complex. America as a nation has simply gone insane. The average politician is such a boring, corrupt old crook, that a young politician with a little charisma and big white smile is practically worshiped as a god. (more…)