Noted imbecile Mark Morford: Obama is a “Lightworker,” an “enlightened being”
posted at 5:28 pm on June 6, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Via LGF. Ace mocks it as an especially Morfordesque example of Morford’s oeuvre, which does indeed embrace so many conservative stereotypes of the San Francisco liberal as to make one wonder if he’s not doing it for attention, but is his logic here really that off base? Liberals might reasonably favor Obama for his policy positions but how else do you explain, say, Doug Kmiec’s incoherent affection for him but in precisely these terms? No experience, no particularly impressive displays of judgment save for Iraq, which is itself being diminished daily by his surge naysaying, nothing at all to commend him really except his youth, his rhetorical ability, his uniquely American racial background, and the fact that he craps honey and flowers and communes with the cherubim and seraphim on a celestial plane attainable only by him. The great punchline of the election is the left’s incessant whining about the dearth of media coverage of substantive issues (most pointedly in the ABC debate) as backdrop for a nominee who is where he is based almost entirely on personality and “identity.” Morford’s language is more flowery than most Obama supporters would be comfortable with, but how is his logic significantly different from theirs?
No, it’s not merely his youthful vigor, or handsomeness, or even inspiring rhetoric. It is not fresh ideas or cool charisma or the fact that a black president will be historic and revolutionary in about a thousand different ways. It is something more. Even Bill Clinton, with all his effortless, winking charm, didn’t have what Obama has, which is a sort of powerful luminosity, a unique high-vibration integrity.
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 us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.
The unusual thing is, true Lightworkers almost never appear on such a brutal, spiritually demeaning stage as national politics. This is why Obama is so rare. And this why he is so often compared to Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., to those leaders in our culture whose stirring vibrations still resonate throughout our short history.
The boldface is mine, the itals are all Morford’s. Never forget, the guy who wrote these words is precisely the type who, in the same breath, can deride conservatives as being soft-headed and overly inclined to hero-worship in contrast to his own bad-ass, irreverent, liberal self, and then turn around and call Barack Obama a “Lightworker” who’s going to change human consciousness. I take him and most of the rest of Obama’s supporters roughly as seriously as I do the girls shrieking themselves into unconsciousness in Beatles concert footage. And I say that as a devout Beatlemaniac myself.
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How can Obama win the evangelical vote this way?
Rimshot!
lorien1973 on June 6, 2008 at 5:30 PM
Easy, he’ll just distance himself from this author ;)
Richard Romano on June 6, 2008 at 5:32 PM
Yup.
Red Pill on June 6, 2008 at 5:32 PM
I think I am going to be sick. This gushing is nothing more evident of a ploy. SICK SICK SICK!
upinak on June 6, 2008 at 5:33 PM
riiight…
juanito on June 6, 2008 at 5:33 PM
Red Pill on June 6, 2008 at 5:34 PM
This is spiritual warfare, folks.
And McCain is woefully unprepared for it.
Huckabee is totally prepared for it, and will win.
Red Pill on June 6, 2008 at 5:36 PM
Absolutely!
I think it’s time to make the banners I proposed, guys.
Barack Obama Is NOT My Savior – Jesus Christ IS!
newton on June 6, 2008 at 5:42 PM
Oh brother.
Next they’ll say he alighted from a hovering flying saucer surrounded by an eerie yet calming purple glow…
Urban Infidel on June 6, 2008 at 5:43 PM
Oh, no, honey. Next time, they’re going to show him rising someone from the dead. Just watch. There’s nothing he cannot do with Soros’ money.
newton on June 6, 2008 at 5:44 PM
It only becomes serious when those shrieking girls are given the authority to command a government, and then base an entire political philosophy on the lyrics to “Twist and Shout”…and then demand that all people believe in the new philosophy or be ostracized.
The works of Marx were silly writings that no one would ever have taken seriously except that some of his devotees took over a government and then it became very serious.
Nosferightu on June 6, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Guess it’s a shame that Huckabee’s not running. Sorta. I’m assuming by “prepared” you mean “ready to enact the nanny state”. Don’t get me wrong – I’m sure Jesus was getting around to talking about how smoking should be outlawed after saying, “Hey go make sure everyone hears about me” … but God just ascended Him a little too quick.
apollyonbob on June 6, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Every day this election gives me a new reason to throw up.
Chuck Schick on June 6, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Huh?
He’s 6′1″ tops and 210 lbs. His ears and the mole on his face (see Larry the Cable Guy) are his most noteworthy features. Compared to the men in my family, he’d qualify as a scrawny little beta male.
My collie says:
CyberCipher on June 6, 2008 at 5:47 PM
I hear you, man.
newton on June 6, 2008 at 5:48 PM
If Obama is the messiah does that make Jeremiah Wright John the Baptist?
miles on June 6, 2008 at 5:48 PM
Obomanastic!!!11!!!
JimK on June 6, 2008 at 5:48 PM
Wait til they found out he`s human…….Bummer man.
ThePrez on June 6, 2008 at 5:49 PM
This stuff is getting out of hand. Truly.
capitalist piglet on June 6, 2008 at 5:51 PM
To make our worship complete, Barry’s “lightness” should be collected, cloned and disseminated throughout the Land to make him the exclusive father of the little ones to be conceived and allowed to be born during his two terms.
T J Green on June 6, 2008 at 5:51 PM
Wow and he invented the knuckle bump, I’m sold
Tazz 55 on June 6, 2008 at 5:54 PM
puke worthy!
Drunk Report on June 6, 2008 at 5:54 PM
where is the other Bible twin ? You never see them at a Huckster party together, hmmmm…
redrock on June 6, 2008 at 5:56 PM
This worship and practical devotion of Obama does not bode well with how easy it will be for the prophesy of the anti-christ to be fulfilled. Not saying that Sen. Obama is the anti-christ but it is scary, especially in our current times, that B.O.’s followers have anointed him the second coming.
Tobias2012 on June 6, 2008 at 5:57 PM
This is very, very scary.
If elected, Obama won’t be surround by yes-men. He’ll be surrounded by worshipers. And anyone who is treated like God eventually comes to think of himself as God.
I can image that Germany in the 30s or China in the 60s started out like this…
SPCOlympics on June 6, 2008 at 5:57 PM
I hate to even go here, and I do so largely as a joke, but does this sound at all Antichrist-ish to anyone else? I mean, I haven’t researched it enough to know whether the description of the type of man the AC will be is accurate or not, but doesn’t the cult like following and worship of this empty suit seem a little eerie and rather disturbing to those of us not falling for it? Again, I’m not implying he “is”, but just noting that it is odd that he seems to fit the description we’ve all heard. The only thing lacking is being a big businessman/CEO type. He doesn’t really fall in to those categories.
RightWinged on June 6, 2008 at 5:58 PM
Nope the anti-Christ (if he were real) would be much more entrancing. This guy is just a pretty worded idiot.
Squid Shark on June 6, 2008 at 6:04 PM
Is he trying to say that Barry and his followers are
the Obamanation standing in the Holy place?
My collie says:
CyberCipher on June 6, 2008 at 6:04 PM
Excuse me while I retch.
Cicero43 on June 6, 2008 at 6:05 PM
Beware the Peacekeepers
upinak on June 6, 2008 at 6:05 PM
Your collies mind melding powers have gravitated out of the realm of whoa.
If I give him a beggin strip will he get out of my head?
upinak on June 6, 2008 at 6:06 PM
what a homo…
D2Boston on June 6, 2008 at 6:07 PM
Nosferightu on June 6, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Excellent post
funky chicken on June 6, 2008 at 6:07 PM
I hate to disagree, and I’m not a super religious person or a Biblical scholar, but all the A-C has to do is gain power. I don’t think it says that 100% of the people would fall for his lies. I mean, there have to be some disbelievers left to be slaughtered.
How…encouraging.
funky chicken on June 6, 2008 at 6:09 PM
Are we to expect that Mad Mahmoud and Li’l Kim will fall on their knees and beg forgiveness for straying from The Messiah’s ordained path?
When reality hits — sometime after Jan. 20 — we’re going to be in deep, deep dung.
MrScribbler on June 6, 2008 at 6:12 PM
Squid Shark and Allah, you may enjoy this article from NR a few days ago. A social/religio conservative tries to make the case that McCain has to go all religious to hold evangelical voters against the Obamassiah phenominon.
Red Pill, I’d love to hear your take as well, if you don’t mind.
Here’s the article:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MWMyNTczMjFlYWUxNTlkNzNjNDdhNWFlZGIyZWI0Yjg=
Two quick comments: he ignores McCain’s biographical tour where I thought he explained his “world view” pretty well.
Also, McCain’s not going to do what he asks because it is just so out of character that it would appear forced and fake, which would be worse than saying nothing about religion at all.
funky chicken on June 6, 2008 at 6:13 PM
Well, Jesus’ ministry on earth lasted for three years. Obama has served in the Senate for three years. Coincidence? I think not.
Pope Linus on June 6, 2008 at 6:14 PM
Lightworker? That some newfangled 4th edition prestige class?
TheUnrepentantGeek on June 6, 2008 at 6:14 PM
I wish you were wrong, I really do.
Pope Linus on June 6, 2008 at 6:16 PM
this is exactly why Obama will be blown out in November. His faithful are the elite, rich white yuppies with no needs but “spiritual enlightenment” and a trendy cult. He’s Kaballah without Madonna, or maybe with stringy, aging Madonna. He’s the kind of cult people like to laugh at, which is coming.
Once South Park nails him or someone else does as the creepy, Scientology faker type, America will start laughing at him.
whiskey_199 on June 6, 2008 at 6:17 PM
McCains faith is has always been very private. He does not talk about it because it is not necessary.
Squid Shark on June 6, 2008 at 6:19 PM
He strikes me as very clumsy in bed. I’ve seen the type and been with the type several times. I want my “enlightened beings” to be lovers extraordinaire! I ain’t feelin’ the love for Obama.
SouthernGent on June 6, 2008 at 6:19 PM
My fear is that it won’t happen until too late.
funky chicken on June 6, 2008 at 6:22 PM
Let’s face it, we’re partially angry at his irrational popularity because we’re so afraid it will be enough to make him president.
AbaddonsReign on June 6, 2008 at 6:24 PM
I was proposing to someone yesterday that we organize across the country and show up at all his functions wearing Mickey Mouse hats (the man’s ego needs a little correcting).
BobH on June 6, 2008 at 6:25 PM
It’s obvious to me that Barack Obama is the anti-Christ.
bigred on June 6, 2008 at 6:27 PM
well, yeah
funky chicken on June 6, 2008 at 6:27 PM
Where do you get those pictures?
Or maybe a better question would be, who is the unstable person who would create such a picture?
Do they REALLY think he is the MESSIAH?
PappaMac on June 6, 2008 at 6:29 PM
I think the opposite will happen. As soon as South Park gives him the treatment, they will be called racists by the DNC. Count on that.
newton on June 6, 2008 at 6:30 PM
You’re closer to correct than you may think.
Most of the modern-day “progressive” philosophy was taken whole-hog from the “UFO Contactee” movement of the immediate post-World War Two/Korean War period. The terms “Lightworker”, “Enlightened Being”, “Transformational Change”, and so on are all very typical dialogue from “Contactee” literature of the period. The “contactees” were the first to call for the abolishment of national governments, the abolition of technology (especially nuclear power), a “return to nature”, and for “Mankind to unite in brotherhood under a new, enlightened world order”- which they would rule over in concert with the “Space Brothers”, who were uniformly tall, slender, attractive, pale-skinned, blond, blue-eyed, and possessed of an “angelic mien”, to quote Italian contactee Orfeo Angelucci. And they were all from Venus, Mars, or some hidden planet in our solar system that they could keep us from finding with the 200-inch Hale reflector at Palomar. But we could find it by closing our eyes, concentrating, thinking pure thoughts, and chanting. Seriously. (Well, they were serious about it, at least.)
Some of the more famous “contactees” were George Adamski, Howard Menger, George Van Tassel (who ran the Giant Rock Space Conventions at his one-airstrip airport in the California desert), Truman Betherum, and George Hunt Williamson (whose “contacts” were all supposedly by “automatic writing”). More recent examples are Eduard “Billy” Meier in Switzerland, and one Donald M. Ware- who says that he is seeking to “transform Earth society” into one more suitable for living in harmony with- you guessed it- the “Space Brothers”. Ware is especially worthy of study, specifically to note the large chunks of modern-day “progressive” rhetoric which were apparently lifted verbatim from his musings. The same holds true for the “deep-ecology” movement, which also borrows most of its “wisdom” from the contactees’ writings. (You can read most of their works online today- Adamski is a good starting point, as is Ware.)
I’ve always personally suspected that the “contactees” suffered from a delusion brought on by their inability to cope with the aftermath of World War Two- namely, nuclear power and especially nuclear weapons, which were a full-time obsession/phobia with the majority of them. (Being born in 1958, I tend to view them the way my uncles who served in WW II and Korea viewed them- as something you want to have in your inventory just because there are people in the world who cannot be reasoned with, no matter how hard you try.) I also believe that they passed their delusions on via their permeation of the consciousness of the “New Age” movement in the Sixties and Seventies to our present crop of “Utopians” on the left, who are probably totally unaware that most of their “profound beliefs” had their beginnings in a bunch of mentally and emotionally disturbed individuals who, after Hiroshima, sought solace in visits from “Space Brothers” from Venus and Mars- who existed only in their own self-deluded minds.
I suspect that Obama, and his “inner circle” of supporters, may be the penultimate expression of this delusional state. Their present line of rhetoric certainly seems to indicate it.
And they want to control our nuclear weapons. And all of us. For our own good, of course.
With them defining what constitutes “good”.
I think I’d rather have Adamski doing it. According to my astronomy teacher in high school, he at least had a real talent. He ran a hotdog stand at the foot of the road up Mt. Palomar to the observatory, and made the best Coney Islands west of Atlantic City.
So at least he knew how to do something besides chant, fantasize, and be impressed with himself.
I’m not so sure about this lot, on any of those three counts.
cheers
eon
eon on June 6, 2008 at 6:33 PM
There. Fixed that for ya’. No need to thank me. Just bein’ neighborly.
My collie says:
Maybe we’ll find out more about that tomorrow. If it happens, it will be a frightening omen.
CyberCipher on June 6, 2008 at 6:34 PM
In politicians, people on the right look for a hard-headed, rational guy (or woman) who understands the limits of government and won’t screw things up too badly. Lefties look for a mommy, a daddy, a psychiatrist, a best friend, or a religious leader. I really think that being on the left is mostly a manifestation of personal issues rather than the result of any rational comparison of the merits of two opposing ideologies. This Morford guy obviously has a “daddy” issue of some sort.
I’ll bet Chris Matthews’ leg tingles every time he reads the piece.
Cicero43 on June 6, 2008 at 6:35 PM
The Jesus character on South Park will HOPE for CHANGE and either start tanning, or will come down with somekind of skin pigment desease. Then he will raise Kenny from the dead.
PappaMac on June 6, 2008 at 6:35 PM
then why does he smoke?
custer on June 6, 2008 at 6:38 PM
My sister and brother-in-law, Harvard and Stamford grads, enlightened Bay Area residents, believe, yes believe, that there will be world peace if Obama becomes President.
Again, more turkey for me.
JiangxiDad on June 6, 2008 at 6:39 PM
I shall now marshal all of my gooey new-agey super-spiritual lightpowers to make a Prediction for the Future:
There’s at least one treacly glop-meister of a columnist in San Francisco who’s up for a biiiig disappointment come Jan. 20, 2009.
I strongly recommend he seek solace in pills. Prescription, street, stolen from medicine cabinets at friends’ houses, whatever. He’s gonna need all he can find.
Gilda on June 6, 2008 at 6:41 PM
Morford is an absolute idiot and Obama is a cultist’s dream. Everyone stay away from the cool aid this summer.
rplat on June 6, 2008 at 6:42 PM
Lenin? Turkmenbashi? Where do these spiritual beings appear accept in national politics. As Jonah Goldberg writes, fascism is when the state takes on the role of secular religion. That is spirituality for the Left.
Nosferightu on June 6, 2008 at 6:48 PM
Make Morford and Kos cry. Vote McCain this November.
funky chicken on June 6, 2008 at 7:01 PM
Lightworker? What, he works for Con Edison? Or he’s just a con?
OhBummer: Lightweight for sure.
He is exhibit A through Z of the incredible lightness of being.
Are people so bereft of spirituality that they buy this New Age gobbledygook?
onlineanalyst on June 6, 2008 at 7:01 PM
Hillary got into a little trouble for the next step in your logic.
thuja on June 6, 2008 at 7:08 PM
LOL “Lightworker” newspeak for won’t lift a finger to help out! Enlightened like the selfish crook that he is, prostituting himself to his master, the MSM/DNC/GlobalMarxist Machine, the one we thought was Clintons’, the one that dumped Hillary, their old “heavyworker”.
Poo on their Farce They Can Believe In.
Poo on their Black Supremacist Bad Mojo.
Poo on their old fashioned new age fascism.
Poo on their stubbornly ignorant jackass platform.
Poo on all of their higher taxes and government intrusions.
It’s all Bonehead HObama’s own poo mind you.
maverick muse on June 6, 2008 at 7:09 PM
Good lord…that’s enough to gag a maggot.
flipflop on June 6, 2008 at 7:09 PM
Can’t be very advanced considering that THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM.
He obviously means very advanced in demonic influence.
SaintOlaf on June 6, 2008 at 7:11 PM
Just remember when you go to vote this November…
Democrats make God cry. Republicans make Allah cry.
flipflop on June 6, 2008 at 7:12 PM
I did that once.
davidk on June 6, 2008 at 7:12 PM
Amen!
SaintOlaf on June 6, 2008 at 7:14 PM
that’s holy incense
redrock on June 6, 2008 at 7:15 PM
Maybe he’s the long-awaited Mahdi. When OhBummer meets with Ahmadaboutjihad with no preconditions, the One-We-Have-Been-Waiting-For will jump out of the well in order to show that he represents unity…and it will be the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. Yes, he can!
onlineanalyst on June 6, 2008 at 7:16 PM
There is not one enormously smart,wise or spiritually “attuned” person who supports Barack Hussein Obama. Period.
SaintOlaf on June 6, 2008 at 7:17 PM
I missed the tag, did the referee catch that ?
redrock on June 6, 2008 at 7:25 PM
These people are just friggin’ loons.
What’s frightening is that there are so many of them.
I wonder if Obama’s decades-long associations with (and acceptance of favors from) criminals like Ayers, Dohrn, and Rezko are examples of Obama’s “unique, high-vibration integrity”?
AZCoyote on June 6, 2008 at 7:26 PM
Absolutely sickening.
SaintOlaf on June 6, 2008 at 7:27 PM
On that had-to-read-the-whole-thing-to-believe-it note, I’m going to start drinking early tonight.
Infidoll on June 6, 2008 at 7:30 PM
Journalistic fellatio. I wonder if Obama will respect him in the morning?
flipflop on June 6, 2008 at 7:30 PM
OK. I’m honored that you’d ask me. This may be long, and long posts with multiple links have a way of not appearing, so I’ll break it into pieces. You may not like everything I have to say, but you asked for my take and I’m going to give it “Straight Talk” style.
Red Pill on June 6, 2008 at 7:31 PM
LOL
redrock on June 6, 2008 at 7:33 PM
“Lightworker” eh?
If Morford was a Star Trek fan, he probably would have called Obama an Organian.
jon1979 on June 6, 2008 at 7:34 PM
Indeed.
I.E., don’t be lukewarm about anything!
Don’t be lukewarm about McCain. Be hot or be cold, but don’t be lukewarm.
McCain leaves me feeling very cold.
Red Pill on June 6, 2008 at 7:37 PM
I say that because there is an army of Huck supporters who would immediately go to work to ensure a McCain/Huckabee ticket won in November.
I don’t say this out of having a preference to see Huckabee be the VP nominee. I don’t. I have a preference to see Huckabee be the Presidential nominee, as I see that as the least painful alternative for Cindy and the rest of McCain’s family. The prophecy that I was given is true – Mike Huckabee will be the next POTUS. I prefer to see that happen directly, versus indirectly, because if it happens indirectly, it would likely mean that John McCain would either die or step down in scandal, elevating his VP to P.
Red Pill on June 6, 2008 at 7:45 PM
Giving someone preference over a competitor because of their skin color is called RACISM. If we had truly “healed” as a nation and put racism behind us, we wouldn’t even be talking about his skin color.
Racism is stupid. If a Japanese Father and a French mother have a son, and a Swiss Father and a Native American mother have a daughter, and that son and daughter grow up, marry each other and have a child, what “race” is that child?
We are all one human race.
It’s a “white guilt” thing. You
wouldn’tunderstand.Red Pill on June 6, 2008 at 7:51 PM
I think he’s more like that computer that made everybody go crazy on the red hour.
Or Vaal.
Nosferightu on June 6, 2008 at 7:52 PM
A Lightworker has no substance of his own.
Connie on June 6, 2008 at 7:55 PM
Interesting, from 2000.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,996351,00.html
So McCain is a religious guy, but doesn’t want to race around and slap everybody in the face with it. He sees faith as a private thing for a politician, which I agree with.
funky chicken on June 6, 2008 at 7:56 PM
And people have the AUDACITY to call Mike Huckabee “the Huckster”.
It is Mr. Barack 57 Islamic states “Allahu Akbar” Hussein Obama “Communist Dreams of My Father” Jr. who is “the Huckster”.
Red Pill on June 6, 2008 at 7:57 PM
Is anybody really listening?
davidk on June 6, 2008 at 8:01 PM
And that is exactly why we have every right to call him on it.
He has said in his own words that if a conflict arose, he would stand with the Muslims.
If he wants to claim that he is a Christian, let him prove it by publicly confessing three simple words, “Jesus is Lord”. That would pass this Biblical test. If he refuses to do that, I refuse to believe that he is a Christian. Muslims believe in taqiyya.
Red Pill on June 6, 2008 at 8:03 PM
But of course! Do you think he would circulate that flier in San Francisco?
If a Republican did that, the IRS would strip the church of its tax exempt status.
And people gave Huckabee a hard time for a bookcase in a living room!
It’s called “The Socialist Gospel”.
Red Pill on June 6, 2008 at 8:06 PM
Yeah, one that’s “inspired” by his pastor at his UCC Church, Rev. Wright.
Red Pill on June 6, 2008 at 8:09 PM
That garbage inspires a different vision…one of a light beam from the Heavens lighting him up…
a lightning bolt for Barack!
Red Pill on June 6, 2008 at 8:10 PM
B.S.!
McCain uttered a few things about faith in 2000 and it burned him.
Now he’s trying the “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach.
Red Pill on June 6, 2008 at 8:13 PM
If McCain wants people to believe he’s “Grounded, ideally, in his Christian beliefs” then let him pass the same test I proposed for Barack.
Three simple words: “Jesus is Lord”.
Red Pill on June 6, 2008 at 8:15 PM
True Dat.
Red Pill on June 6, 2008 at 8:15 PM
The 10-minute tape is hardly clandestine, but it’s not in heavy news rotation either. Two silver-haired men chat in a cozy office. Dan Yeary, pastor of the North Phoenix Baptist Church, calls it “a blessing” to include his companion “in our family and our fellowship.” He asks if they might talk about prayer.
“Sure,” says John McCain. He explains that at the Hanoi Hilton “those of us who gained our spiritual help and strength through God seemed to do better physically than those who basically gave up.” Then he describes his practice now. “I pray regularly, and I don’t have to be getting ready for bed, to be getting up in the morning. I seize opportunities throughout the day.” He often prays in thanks for a full life, he says. “I haven’t always succeeded; I’ve failed many times. But because the foundation of your and my belief is redemption, I’ve been able to receive additional comfort, strength and the desire to move forward again.”
Such talk, taped in 1998 for internal church use, would be no surprise from George W. Bush or Al Gore. But from McCain, who has remained discreet about his current faith while waging one of the more religiously contentious primary runs in history, it is revealing. His close relationship with Yeary’s church is unknown even to many Phoenix politicos and pastors.
McCain’s great-grandfather was an Episcopal minister, and his father prayed twice daily–on his knees.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,996351,00.html
funky chicken on June 6, 2008 at 8:16 PM
Jesus was toughest on the “religious” people.
It ain’t about “religion” or “tradition”, it’s about true faith in the true God.
Red Pill on June 6, 2008 at 8:16 PM
The Weekly World News’ loss is the SF Chronicle’s gain.
Every time someone says Obama can’t win in November, I flash back to the I, Claudius episode where Caligula (never too tightly wrapped to begin with) goes completely, dangerously looney.
And Claudius is thrilled because he figures the Senate will have to step in and have Caligula taken out and the Republic will be restored.
If you’ve seen the series (or read Roman history), you’ll know how that turned out.
NoSquids on June 6, 2008 at 8:17 PM
True dat.
Red Pill on June 6, 2008 at 8:17 PM
Ya’ think???
Red Pill on June 6, 2008 at 8:17 PM
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