"Is Obama an Enlightened Being?"

[jordan179]

Courtesy of Mark Morford, SF Gate columnist, who is not kidding in his article "Is Obama an Enlightened Being?":

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/06/06/notes060608.DTL

Barack Obama isn't really one of us. Not in the

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[irked_indeed]

It's interesting to note, for a post focused on how much positivity Obama will engender, how many insults, put-downs, and off-topic snarky asides Mr. Morford managed to fit in his article.

[jordan179]

It's interesting to note, for a post focused on how much positivity Obama will engender, how many insults, put-downs, and off-topic snarky asides Mr. Morford managed to fit in his article.

Say, that's a very good point -- and one I mostly missed!

For instance, ranting against the CIA and the "war machine" with regard to JFK, and claiming that Bush had laid the country "waste."

[irked_indeed]

Thanks!

Needless little digs on the "coweringly religious" were what got me looking- but there's enough there for just about everyone.

[izuko]

You seem to be clinging.

[irked_indeed]

I... don't actually have any idea what that means, in this context. Help me?

[headnoises]

Maybe it's about the bitterly religious, clinging to God and guns?

[mosinging1986]

That is a darned good point!

What else can you expect, though? If you're not on the Obama bandwagon you're an unenlightened boob and therefore fair game for ridicule and insults.

Feel the love and unity! Group hug!

[jordan179]

Feel the love and unity! Group hug!

... and group crush to all outsiders.

Feel the love and unity! Group hug!

[irked_indeed]

doublepluswarmfeelies all around!

Oh, and DEATH TO ALL HERETICS!!!!!! DEATH TO ALL INFIDELS!!!!!!

Re: Feel the love and unity! Group hug!

[cutelildrow]

That include Obama the Apostate? *chuckle*

[prester_scott]

Insults, put-downs, and snark are all Morford ever does.

[irked_indeed]

Kind of makes you wonder how much of "lightworker" he really is.

Remember; you will know them by their fruits, or something like that.

[irked_indeed]

It's interesting to note, for a post focused on how much positivity Obama will engender, how many insults, put-downs, and off-topic snarky asides Mr. Morford managed to fit in his article.

I suggest you revisit the sections on "doublethink" and "blackwhite" in the essay "Principles of Newspeak", by one G.Orwell.