In his own speech accepting the nomination, he said: “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” To his credit, Trump hasn’t promised to turn back the tides.
And earlier Obama said in New Hampshire, “A light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany … and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Obama.”
And then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi called Obama “a leader that God has blessed us with at this time,” sounding much like the Trump supporters quoted by the Standard. Going further, in June of 2008, San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford informed us that “Barack Obama isn’t really one of us. Not in the normal way, anyway.”
Obama, he explained, is 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.” (There’s even a blog, at obamessiah.blogspot.com, collecting messianic imagery of Obama going back to before the 2008 elections).
Obama has continued in this vein much more recently, telling police, “I’m your best hope” in his address after the police shootings by black nationalist Micah X. Johnson.
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