"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

Comments

[bojojoti]

It really concerns me that we've become a nation that seems more preoccupied by what looks good and sounds nice than what works or is true.

[cutelildrow]

you mean, the US haven't been since JFK (preoccupied by what looks / sounds good than truth or what works)

THEY CANNOT HANDLE THE TRUTH.

[bojojoti]

Some of the US can take the plain, unvarnished truth. I've got to hope that's enough.

[jordan179]

you mean, the US haven't been since JFK (preoccupied by what looks / sounds good than truth or what works)

I'm not a huge JFK fan, but I'll point out that JFK had some real background before running for President -- he'd served in the World War II Navy and actually learned something about defense and foreign policy. Obama seems to believe that defense is a non-issue and foreign policy can best be handled by making idealistic speeches.

[cutelildrow]

It's more along the line that people have totally bought into the JFK mythos and have rewritten history in the collective consciousness that since he was good looking / had the hot chick / was immensely popular / got assassinated = Best President Evar (and all the bad things he did was whitewashed out of existence). At least that's been the longstanding impression with me.

But yeah, at least he had some real background.