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Jinn, if you put aside the fact that Obama is an unusually gifted speaker, very nimble in his public appearances, and charismatic as all hell, and focus solely on his positions and political history, what distinguishes his positions and activities from any other big-city leftish Democrat? His politics are totally conventional. Totally. You might agree or disagree, but he's hardly a groundbreaker or an original political thinker. He's just a plain old liberal Democrat who happens to be very gifted. That is probably good enough for most of the people here, who are liberal Democrats, and that's ok. But let's not make him into something he's not.
My question for all the people who think Obama is the messiah is this: what happens four years from now, when -- even if he is a fabulously successful president, which is far from unlikely given how good his people skills appear to be -- this world continues to be less than perfect, there is still violence and famine and nastiness in the world, there still are scandals and recriminations and poverty, not everything that hurts you has been healed and you still have unfulfilled desires? Will you be able to handle the disappointment? Maybe, step back a second and say -- as you likely will four years from now if Obama has a successful presidency -- he's a politician, he can accomplish some good things, there are limits to what politicians can do. This is the real world, we have to evaluate it rationally.
Messianism isn't rational. It's religious. When Obama starts doing laying-on of hands and healing people's sores, let me know so I can come watch.
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