Oh the Pathos!

It is generally conceded that President Obama did a resounding bellyflop off the high board with all the girls watching at the debate last week. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the professional leftists at MSNBC melt down afterwards, If you haven't seen the Saturday Night Live send-up of this, it is a serious hoot. But what of the run-of-the-mill journalists and others for whom the thrill is gone? Like Mark Morford. Here is a piece that he wrote in June 2008: 

"Dismiss it all you like, but I've heard from far too many enormously smart, wise, spiritually attuned people who've been intuitively blown away by Obama's presence--not speeches, not policies, but sheer presence--to say it's just a clever marketing ploy, a slick gambit carefully orchestrated by hotshot campaign organizers who, once Obama gets into office, will suddenly turn from perky optimists to vile soul-sucking lobbyist whores, with Obama as their suddenly evil, cackling overlord.

Here's where it gets gooey. Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help usevolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul."

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Poor guy - why so downcast oh my soul?! When you put someone on a pedestal, the fall can be traumatic.