I never said this particular idea was “either literal or totally meaningless”.
The reason I asked here is that the OP seems to want to take those conservatives literally. Why else would those conservatives be “among the most ignorant of the deplorables”? In the “NOT MY PRESIDENT” discussion, you jumped all over me for wanting to take those folks literally. And yet here you appear to be OK with OP taking the Obama = God criticism literally. (Emphasis on “appear”, which is why I asked for clarification.)
If you don’t think they should be taken literally, fine. You can just say so. In which case, I’d like to see why anyone would think that using that figure of speech would make someone “among the most ignorant of the deplorables”. It’s a very common, rather pedestrian figure of speech, used all the time. In fact, HRC made an allusion to the same idea herself back in the 2008 campaign. No, she did not literally think Obama or his followers thought was the 2nd coming of Christ, but she chide him and his followers for acting as if he were.
Yep!
Starting 8 years ago, with the Nobel Peace Prize committee.
They were true believers, awed by the glory of the holy man who performs miracles.
Verily,they said unto us, salvation shall come only to those who follow his ways.
“Obama is my shepherd…I shall not want.
Though I walk through the valley of death by chemical weapons in Aleppo, I shall have no fear.
Though he allows unsupervised development of nuclear weapons in Iran, his staff shall comfort me.
Verily , my cup runneth over
For Obama is with me.”
Obama tried hard to be a great leader.
He failed.
But his disciples will never accept that.
C’hump, it’s strange. There are so many fora out there where this sort of lazy, brainless dittohead horseshit would earn you huzzahs and thumbs-ups, and yet you choose to spend your time here, where it gets a more deserved response. The only reasonable conclusion is that you enjoy the abuse.
So, why not. You’re a knuckle-dragging, Kool-Aid slurping halfwit who’s never expressed a single original thought, et cetera et cetera. Is that good, or do you need more to get off?
And you voted for someone who wanted to negotiate his way out of the national debt and steal money from everyone who has T-bills or a pension or invested savings…
Guess what happens to the economy.
It doesn’t matter who you voted for or if you even voted. If you believe Obama’s administration was eight years of non-stop fuckups, you have your head shoved so completely up your ass, you can see through your belly button.
Surely you are aware of mocking Obama as “the Messiah” by the right, no? Now, I assume it’s pretty much tongue-in-cheek, but it’s been a common theme for the right (at least in my experience) when marginalizing Obama supporters.
I suspect that there were more Republicans who thought Obama was Satan and could do no right than those who thought Obama was god and could do no wrong by an order of magnitude.
This. Ever since Reagan the Republicans have deified Republican Presidents as the literal god-chosen savior, and projected the same thing onto the Democrats. They always claim the Democrats worship Democratic Presidents, because that’s what they do and they can’t imagine anyone doing otherwise.
Seriously, there was a non-zero amount of iconography made portraying Obama in a manner in which Christ is typically portrayed in art, and headlines in major media using phrases typically linked to Christ. The OP’s question is far from unreasonable.
Newsweek’s cover for the January 18, 2013 issue which came just before Obama’s second inauguration was titled " The Second Coming "
The Huffington Post ran an image of a Painting of Obama , arms outstretched and wearing a crown of thorns. The artist, Michael D’Antuono, states he didn’t intend to compare Obama to Jesus, but the imagery is obvious.
Entertainer Jamie Foxx did an intro suggesting (video link) giving thanks to “Our Lord and Savior Barack Obama” during the Soul Train Awards in 2012.
Even staid Barbara Walters commented during a Pier’s Morgan interview on Obama’s absence from her “most fascinating” list and said, “We thought that he was going to be – I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime, but – the next messiah.”
The Obama as messiah metaphor has shown up repeatedly over the last several years. Hardly surprising that religious conservatives balk at what they may view as akin to blasphemy.
