# OK, I fess up--I DO think Obama's the Messiah! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 6, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934 "2012-10-06T20:33:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/1 "2012-10-06T20:33:34Z")
Been holding out for a while, even denying it online sometimes, but I literally do believe that Barack Obama is the Messiah, come back to earth in order to lead us mortals to paradise, and I will believe anything he says, or orders, or commands me to do, simply because I believe with all my heart that he is the manifestation of God’s will, and anything he says or does is therefore sanctified. Still an atheist, though. Trying to reconcile that. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/2 "2012-10-06T21:05:26Z")
Funny, I think he’s a the antichrist. And he’s still a Muslim, though. Trying to reconcile that. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/3 "2012-10-06T21:06:33Z")
He’s not the Messiah, he’s just a naughty boy! ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/4 "2012-10-06T21:07:05Z")
that would account for the birth certificate thing. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/5 "2012-10-06T21:08:32Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > He’s not the messiah, he’s just a naughty boy! ::golf clap:: ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/6 "2012-10-06T21:40:53Z")
silly! but i totally get the OP: why is it if people think that Romney is WORSE as an option than re-electing Obama we must be, necessarily, worshiping him? it’s a weird way to look at things. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/7 "2012-10-06T21:46:29Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > Been holding out for a while, even denying it online sometimes, but I literally do believe that Barack Obama is the Messiah, come back to earth in order to lead us mortals to paradise, and I will believe anything he says, or orders, or commands me to do, simply because I believe with all my heart that he is the manifestation of God’s will, and anything he says or does is therefore sanctified. > > Still an atheist, though. Trying to reconcile that. The truth shall set you free. Wait - that’s a quote, isn’t it? Who said that? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/8 "2012-10-07T04:56:43Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > silly! > > but i totally get the OP: why is it if people think that Romney is WORSE as an option than re-electing Obama we must be, necessarily, worshiping him? > it’s a weird way to look at things. It’s the whole extremism thing that mars so much of the discourse here. If you don’t think that the North Koreans are the worst threat to human survival…then you must think they’re all fluffy bunnies. A friend of mine is a conservative small-town newspaper editor. He wrote an editorial defending the right of American newspapers to print cartoons that would be insulting to Islam and to Mohammed. Someone sent him a bunch of such cartoons, and he chose not to print them. Promptly, a shitstorm blew up around him, calling him a hypocrite! The idea that there might be some kind of middle ground, some kind of moderate stance, escapes the minds of such people. ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/9 "2012-10-07T05:17:58Z")
He’s either the messiah or the worst president EVAH. I go back and forth, ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/10 "2012-10-07T05:25:57Z")
It’s really a blatantly odd projection. We don’t like the things he’s saying because it’s he who says it, we like him because of the things he says. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/11 "2012-10-07T16:16:48Z")
Personal issues generally go in MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/12 "2012-10-07T16:33:21Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Personal issues generally go in MPSIMS. But this explains so much about why large numbers of people (secretly) are planning to vote for Obama! It really should be put bck in “Elections,” **Tom** –unless you’re a part of the mainstream media coverup, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/13 "2012-10-07T16:52:20Z")
I need to get some sleep. I thought you said you thought Oprah was the Messiah Wouldn’t that be some shit, instead of a white man the Messiah is a black woman. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/14 "2012-10-07T17:09:07Z")
You know, from the viewpoint of a foreigner, this whole thing seems really odd. Obama simply _can’t_ be the Messiah. Justin Trudeau is the Messiah. _And he doesn’t even know it yet!_ > [@sahirrnee](#): > > Wouldn’t that be some shit, instead of a white man the Messiah is a black woman. Definitely hotter… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/15 "2012-10-07T17:20:20Z")
A good salesman sells himself first. Obama is a charismatic individual, many will follow him blindly because he represents what they want to be and attaching themselves to him makes them feel like they have somehow become a part of what he appears to be. Many more simply agree with his politics and others like what he is offering, add them all up and it comes out to a bit more than 50% if he wins. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/16 "2012-10-07T19:30:42Z")
> [@badger5149](#): > > A good salesman sells himself first. Obama is a charismatic individual, many will follow him blindly because he represents what they want to be and attaching themselves to him makes them feel like they have somehow become a part of what he appears to be. Many more simply agree with his politics and others like what he is offering, add them all up and it comes out to a bit more than 50% if he wins. I can’t decide whether I agree with his politics or I like what he’s offering. Ah fuck it – I’ll just follow him blindly. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/17 "2012-10-07T20:25:17Z")
Does Obama raising 10,000 Floridians from the dead to vote for him count as voter fraud? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/18 "2012-10-07T23:49:51Z")
> [@sahirrnee](#): > > Wouldn’t that be some shit, instead of a white man the Messiah is a black woman. I’m not sure the Messiah has ever been a white man. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/19 "2012-10-07T23:57:57Z")
[George Takei](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH54umRbQzU&feature=relmfu) wants Asian-Americans to vote for Barack Obama. Also, [a whole lot of women](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae2lnhQQPDw&feature=relmfu) think he’s pretty wonderful, too. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/20 "2012-10-08T00:17:09Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > but i totally get the OP: why is it if people think that Romney is WORSE as an option than re-electing Obama we must be, necessarily, worshiping him? I don’t think you or the OP quite understand the phrase. He’s not called the Messiah because people think he’s better than Romney. He’s called the Messiah because he ran in 2008 on a platform of hopin’ and changin’ his way to prosperity. Conservatives mocked people who believed such claptrap by calling him the Messiah. Now that it’s four years later and people can plainly see how thoroughly fooled they were, the Messiah smear is all the funnier in a “told you so” kind of way. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934.md?page=2)