05 Feb 2010
No Longer Divine
Amusement, Barack Obama, Irony, Left Think, Lightworker, Mark Morford
People used to think he was a Lightworker.
Fellow Yale conservative John Brewer writes to a private email list:
How many of you remember the wacky column from ’08 that said inter alia:
“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.â€
Do I see some hands? It was pretty notorious at the time.
Well, in any event the very same columnist (Mark Morford, San Francisco Chronicle or at least its website) has now put out a column bitching and whining about totally unproductive ungrateful and unrealistic liberals who don’t understand how the world really works and ask annoying questions like “Why the hell can’t he step up and fix the entire planet in under 400 days like he promised he would, in my dreams and fantasies and impossible liberal grass-fed organic tofu greengasms?“