Barack Obama, Savior of the World?
By pm317 on June 6, 2009 at 9:10 PM in Current Affairs
(bumped up from earlier today)
Can you believe a “journalist” said this? Newsbuster’s Kyle Drennen sums up Newsweek’s Evan Thomas’s jaw-dropping remarks on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews:
[Evan] Thomas elaborated on Obama as God, patronizingly explaining: “He’s going to bring all different sides together…Obama is trying to sort of tamper everything down. He doesn’t even use the word terror. He uses extremism. He’s all about let us reason together…He’s the teacher. He is going to say, ‘now, children, stop fighting and quarreling with each other.’And he has a kind of a moral authority that he – he can – he can do that.” In response, [Chris] Matthews wondered: “If there’s a world election between him and Osama Bin Laden, he’s running a good campaign.” Thomas agreed: “Yes, he is.”
Here is the video:
So let me get this straight: Obama is God and he is an antidote to the Satan, Osama.
I am speechless.
Is this a new version of “Bring it on” from Obama and his cronies? Because I don’t yet see the foundations being laid for the hard work ahead of bringing together the world against terrorism. Only some patronizing speeches addressing the “Muslim World.” As Pat Lang so aptly put it, “An excess of “cultural sensitivity” is not helpful. It is patronising.” A meek expression of cultural sensitivity however profuse, will also not convey a message of strength.
Osama’s goal is simple and his job is easy. He can even outsource it to many other terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Toiba aka LeT (don’t hound me for evidence of links between Al-Queda and LeT — they are just one big conglomerate as far as I am concerned). We saw the latest evidence of it on November 26, 2008 in Mumbai, India.
However, Obama if he wants to play the peacemaker, has the uphill battle of building consensus among heads of state with disparate interests to resolve the monumental conflicts which may or may not root out terrorism as we see it today.
I am not convinced that these speeches are the new beginning that they are purported to be. The hype surrounding it making them into mega media events with rock star Obama has taken away the seriousness of the hard work that lies ahead. Does Obama know what he is doing?
And fools like Evan Thomas with their stupid pronouncements do not help.
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(The transcript is up at Newsbusters.org.)

















