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“Worship me”

By the end of Obama’s overseas trip last summer, which featured an adoring crowd of 200,000 in Berlin, an Obama sticker affixed to the wall of the campaign plane’s media cabin had been defaced: “Worship me,” it read, under a drawing of his face. (Someone has since tried to scrub the sticker clean.)

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Could Politico put their political newscasting farther up Obama’s butt?

I am not sure if I should frown in disgust or blow up my computer, especially with the Nan Pelosi “Blessed” sentence.

upinak on August 28, 2008 at 12:31 PM

goodness!

JeffreyLloyd on August 28, 2008 at 12:32 PM

He’s special? I thought everyone was special.

Quisp on August 28, 2008 at 12:35 PM

Calling the media’s attitude toward Obama (and this includes Politico) “sick” is an understatement.

With apologies to the great Paul Erdman, these are the “Last Days of America,” predecessor to the Kingdom of Obama.

MrScribbler on August 28, 2008 at 12:40 PM

frightening.

homesickamerican on August 28, 2008 at 12:41 PM

…and that I would come to learn was an alcoholic, someone who had not treated his family well. And, so, that was something you felt you had to make up for.

Yep, so you went right out and made it up to your brother George, right?

Mr. Bingley on August 28, 2008 at 12:43 PM

Fearful that her son would feel alienated as an African-American growing up in a white household in Hawaii, his mother reinforced Obama’s esteem at every turn.

So that explains it: he is one of the new, artificially inflated Self Esteem booster children.

God help the Future.

pseudonominus on August 28, 2008 at 12:43 PM

That someone who sees Obama every day would (presumably sarcastically?) writes “worship me” on an Obama sticker is interesting. Perhaps someone in the previously-in-the-tank-for-Obama MSM is no longer getting thrills up his leg.

I’ve been wondering how the MSM will react to the Temple of Obama speech. They generally pride themselves of sophistication and an appreciation of the finer things in life (art, literature, architecture, arugula, etc.) If it comes across as cheesy or tacky, they may be reduced to “well, the party faithful liked it.”

Wethal on August 28, 2008 at 12:43 PM

“I will win, don’t worry about that.”

So shall it be written, so shall it be done.

Tony737 on August 28, 2008 at 12:44 PM

I know people dismiss the spiritual nature of the war we’re in, but the glassy-eyed adoration of this inexperienced, egotistical hack is frankly VERY scary.

Call me irrational. I don’t care. It’s weird.

capitalist piglet on August 28, 2008 at 12:52 PM

Known early in the campaign for her deprecating humor, describing her husband as “stinky and snore-y” in the morning, Michelle Obama just as often portrays her husband as almost otherworldly in his gifts.

Tee hee

RushBaby on August 28, 2008 at 12:59 PM

WOT: TL;DR

fossten on August 28, 2008 at 1:06 PM

Perhaps if Oliver Stone would like to make another film about a politician supposedly living in his father’s shadow, he can write his script without having to look again at the Bush family.

Aeschylus on August 28, 2008 at 1:12 PM

After graduating from Columbia University, Obama moved to Chicago to become a community organizer on the South Side, a job that could humble even the most confident individuals.

Uhm. What? It humbles you because it’s so insignificant, so worthless, and people generally treat you like a salesman, maybe?

misterpeasea on August 28, 2008 at 1:23 PM

There is a whiff of the mystical in Jacobs’s premonition of Obama’s destiny as leader.

Whether she believes this crap or not, is there any possible point to a journalist writing stuff like this except to make herself look like more of a boob when it blows up in her face?

Imagine what must be going on inside the heads of these ditzes: When the Rapture comes, they’ll all be hailed as prophets!

logis on August 28, 2008 at 1:34 PM

Obama said coolly, “I will win, don’t worry about that.”

I have not lately heard anything more chilling than that.

MBuck on August 28, 2008 at 2:09 PM

Lady MacBeth and Grandma MacBeth have program this guy to be a monster.

“Who’s father was a Harvard trained economist” who believed in Karl Marx.

rockhauler on August 28, 2008 at 2:31 PM


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