When They Figure Out He's Not Jesus

Obama swept the weekend caucuses and primaries and is expected to sweep the Potomac primaries today. His folks are running a kick ass campaign and he deserves every single vote he gets because he has earned them. BUT, I too am a little weirded out by what I'll call the "rabid over-zealousness" of some of his supporters. In many of my circles, online or other wise, this man is all but being deified. The problem with that is that if he is a deity, all who oppose or disagree with him invariable become labeled the exact opposite. If you express support or even mild admiration for Hillary or, God forbid, a Republican candidate, you are self-hating, unaware and not displaying black unity. So, I leaning towards agreeing with this guy. Obama is a great candidate and, given the opportunity, would probably do a great job as president. But he is not God.

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. On listservs I'm on, some people who should know better – hard-bitten, not-so-young cynics, even – are gushing about Barack…

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.

I have been watching so many people get so EXTRA and over the top regarding Barack Obama that now Hillary and Bill deemed evil demons. They believe nothing she says and find suspect everything she does. Her tears were fake. She's dishonest. She's lying about her experience. She was a Goldwater girl in 1964 ... It's just gotten stupid and irrational. Like the fringe element of the Republican Party, if Clinton wins, these folks say they are going to jump ship and vote for the other party ... and that will help whom?

I haven't supported or campaigned for anyone but I did vote for "the enemy." I will vigorously support the democratic candidate because in my eyes, we will have a historic candidate either way and I'd be glad to call either of them the POTUS. But, if Obama wins, I wonder what all of these "crazed" black folks (who are working my nerves to the quick with their daily worship services for him) will do when they realize that he is not Jesus.

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