An interesting article.

Barack Obama is not Jesus Christ?

Well, let's see...

" Once long ago, in a world of confusion and
weariness, there came a new and exciting hope...
A man appeared in Palestine and spoke ..."

Barack Obama in his Inauguration speech said:

"On this day, we gather because we have chosen
hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict
and discord..."

Jesus said: "That you love one another as I have
loved you."

And Barack Obama said:

"We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn
from every end of this earth; and because we have tasted
the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and
emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united,
we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall
someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon
dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common
humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must
play its role in ushering in a new era of peace..."

No folks, Barack Obama is not Jesus Christ,
but he comes pretty close!

Why are the god botherers upset, you have your beliefs and they are respected.
Enjoy what you believe in and respect others, that do not have the same conviction to your beliefs.
The media created this illusion, and I am sure Obama ain't happy, as he has enough on his plate.

BTW; Can you ask "him/her above" to send some decent rain to South Australia. Tar!

Some however, like Amjad Attalah a Co-Director of the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force, already have given Obama miraculous powers as they claim that the cease-fire in Gaza is a direct result of the Obama 'Ascension'.

See:http://www.kotzabasis.observationdeck.org

It is true that new-conservatives, right and religious extremists, big crooks, super nationalists and enemy of the peace and progress created huge problems in USA and the whole world. Obama knows, we know, that the solutions of all these problems will not be easy BUT we TRUST OBAMA AND WE ARE READY TO SUPPORT HIM.
Of cause white suprimasists, KKK, right and religious extremists, big crooks, super nationalists and enemy of the peace and progress will try to create problems to Obama but they CAN NOT block him.
While there are many extremists who would like to kill president Obama, I hope, I wish American authorities will protect his life.
YES, PRESIDENT OBAMA IS NOT Jesus Christ BUT A REAL PERSON WHO TRY TO SOLVE REAL PROBLEMS, NOW, ON OUR PLANET!
OF CAUSE I PREFER OBAMA FROM ANY MYTHICAL PERSON.
Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide

TRTL ‘All in all, a pragmatic way forward, reasonably devoid of idiotic ideology from either end of the spectrum.’

People at either end of the spectrum are not idiots, nor are they necessarily ideologues. In some respects, they are not even extremists. They just reject many aspects of centrist political ideology for a variety of reasons – personal, practical and philosophical.

The centre does not hold a monopoly on common sense or pragmatism. In fact, it’s every bit as reactionary and consumed by its own self interest as the supposed extremes it so despises. More often than not, the centre rejects much needed reforms for the sake of expediency, until a catastrophe or crisis forces it to act … usually too little, too late - as with the global economic crisis that both the libertarian right and socialist left had been predicting loudly from the rooftops for at least 10 years.

So too, both the ‘extremist’ libertarian right and the socialist left profoundly reject war – yet the centre goes along with any war on offer, regardless of justification … just to keep the peace, so to speak.

Give me an extremist over a moderate any day.

Daggett

Don’t be too hard on Chomsky. (He’s my pin-up boy. Much sexier than Che!) He’s stuck his neck out so many times over the course of his amazing career to expose the banal, everyday language of imperial hubris, his unwillingness to join the 911 Truth Movement should not be seen as the sum total of all he has achieved.

Pericles “What a sour, sad, grumpy little article this is”

Yep, our Passy must have mixed up his haemoid ointment with a tube of bengay cream

But despite this being about Obama, he manages to put the boot in to Bush “But I think the blame for stagnating incomes lies with George W Bush as the Commander in Chief of Capitalism.”

Oh such crippled thought processes, twisted and torn by the manifest failings of the socialist models which he would seek to inflict upon us all.

I see we have “”bourgeois economists” like Paul Krugman”

Rather than “champions of the workers economists” like comrade Passant

“The gap between expectations and reality creates an opportunity for the revolutionary left in the US and elsewhere”

And with their usual incompetence the “revolutionary left” will either trip on that gap or better still, fall into it and be lost forever.

“Our task is to patiently explain, and support those fightbacks against capitalism and imperialism that do and will occur around the world and in the US and Australia.”

Well Johnny, libertarian capitalism is presently challenged by the excesses of big government, the very big government which Ronald Reagan was at pains to do a bonsai on.

When the previous Soviets of the revolutionary left were faced with a crisis and challenged by libertarian capitalism, back in 1980-90s they caved in on themselves.

I have no doubt, libertarian capitalism will weather this storm, as it has every other storm it has faced in its long history and it will prevail once again over the "revolutionary left" and all the other indolent parasites and maligned wannabe peons who think there is any salvation for anyone in socialism.

In the mean time, Johnny, do keep writing, your articles are an absolute hoot and a hilarious diversion from matters of the real world.

Foxy “No folks, Barack Obama is not Jesus Christ,
but he comes pretty close!”

I thought he was less like Jesus but does do a good impression of Al Jolson