Who Do You Say I Am?

The disappointment with Obama on the Left is growing exponentially from Chris Matthews to Margaret Carlson and other high profile lefties. He has failed them; he has failed the Cause. As I have read and listened to their growing angst, there was a dawning realization that many of them were talking in religious terms as if they had been convinced that Obama was the messiah and to their profound chagrin, he has proved to have feet of clay. Listen to what Jon Stewart said on the O'Reilly show the other night:

"I think people feel a disappointment in that there was a sense that Jesus will walk on water and no you are looking at it like, 'Oh look at that, he's just treading water' … I thought he'd do a better job."
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/23/stewart-saddened-by-obama/?iref=NS1

Liberals and leftists are looking for a secular messiah to worship and lead them to the Promised Land and this is a job description that no mere mortal can live up to. Hence the continual cycle on the Left of high hopes,  uncritical worship, inevitably followed by disappointment and despair. It also explains their inability to discern a tyrant and why they are drawn to dictators like moths to a flame.

There is only one Messiah and his name is not Barack, or any other name except Jesus, and His kingdom is not of this world. Yet. Yield unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's - it helps even out the bipolar ride between adulation and despair.