# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/21 "2012-10-08T00:36:49Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > 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. Well, yeah. That’s your opinion. And you know what they say about opinions… ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/22 "2012-10-08T01:39:18Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Funny, I think he’s a the antichrist. > > And he’s still a Muslim, though. Trying to reconcile that. I have trouble rectifying that too, how can he be the anti-christ and belong to a totally different religion at the same time? I guess I shouldn’t expect better from a nazi communist. Nazi communists are the worst kind of communist. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/23 "2012-10-08T01:50:09Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > And you know what they say about opinions… That they’re really just onions disguised with two extra letters? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/24 "2012-10-08T02:30:15Z")
> [@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 > [@Revtim](#): > > Funny, I think he’s a the antichrist. You’re both wrong. He’s the Kwisatz Haderach. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/25 "2012-10-08T02:46:28Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > 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. I, for one, am still kicking myself for believing Obama when he said he’d end the war in Iraq, capture or kill Osama bin Laden, reform healthcare, stop the bleeding and turn the economy around, and end DADT, then went and did none of those things once elected. …Oh, wait. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/26 "2012-10-08T04:28:26Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > 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. I don’t recall it being about hopin’ and changin’ to prosperity but (more broadly) hopin’ and changin’ as an attitudinal basis for governing. I think the message was effective because Republicans had been pounding on FUD rather than hope for too long: “We have to go to war with Iraq because FUD\*!” “We can’t change the way medical care is provided because FUD!” You suggest that conservatives regard such stuff as “claptrap” but my impression (from afar, admittedly) is that US conservatives tend as much as most Americans to worship optimism as a value. \*Fear! Uncertainty! Doubt! ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/27 "2012-10-08T05:02:11Z")
He’s an intelligent, personable guy who had a LOT of political good fortune. As a President He is neither as good as his fans/acolytes say he is or as demonic as his detractors suggest. Personally, I think we need a new direction and will vote Romney but I respect and rate Obama. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/28 "2012-10-08T05:14:55Z")
Funny story: Sitting at the bar one time with some other bar patrons. I don’t remember what started the conversation but somehow it morphed into (said seriously): Crazy guy: I think Obama might be the antichrist! Lots of people back and forth. Mostly crazy talk. Then I chime in: Me: NO! The antichrist isn’t going to be Black! Black guy: [very indignant] What’s that supposed to mean? Me: Really? You’re going to take offence that the worst person in the history of the world couldn’t possibly be black? He thought about it for a second and then we both started to laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/29 "2012-10-08T06:37:36Z")
Obama is a WITCH! He turned me into a newt! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/30 "2012-10-08T08:41:10Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Obama is a WITCH! > He turned me into a newt! No, he turned Mitt Romney into a Newt. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/31 "2012-10-08T12:45:06Z")
In Soviet Republic of Georgia, Newt turns YOU into witch. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/32 "2012-10-08T15:04:31Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > 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. Kind of what Romney’s doing now. Did you hear the last debate? No new taxes, bigger military, more teachers, less spending, more jobs! The guy is going to fix fucking everything! All hail Mitt! Our new messiah! ---
**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 9, 2012, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934/33 "2012-10-09T12:30:48Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > That they’re really just onions disguised with two extra letters? Ha! pretty durn funny! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-fess-up-i-do-think-obamas-the-messiah/636934.md?page=1)