It’s sickening, and it’s everywhere. First it was just in the mainstream media, occasionally in light disguise, throughout the presidential campaign and election. Now, afterward, as Obama freely enjoys his 90 day unwatched grace period, the sycophants are out of the closet and praising Him. The obsequiousness is overwhelming, and with it comes an unbridled arrogance that coolly sits atop the rest of the fawning. It reeked in Craig Ferguson’s interview with Chris Matthews on Ferguson’s show the other night, it is prevalent in each of Letterman’s monologues, it’s on just about every non-FOX News news network, and even some writers on the left have begun to realize the danger of replacing accountability with adoration.
As one of the few stand-out critics of this operation, Charles Krauthammer’s Washington Post article dissects Obama’s recent words towards the Middle East and elucidates the Godmode that Obama is currently playing in.
Now that Obama has returned from his “Muslim world” pilgrimage, even the left agrees. “Obama’s standing above the country, above — above the world. He’s sort of God,” Newsweek’s Evan Thomas said to a concurring Chris Matthews, reflecting on Obama’s lofty perception of himself as the great transcender.
Not that Obama considers himself divine. (He sees himself as merely messianic, or, at worst, apostolic.) But he does position himself as hovering above mere mortals, mere country, to gaze benignly upon the darkling plain beneath him where ignorant armies clash by night, blind to the common humanity that only he can see. Traveling the world, he brings the gospel of understanding and godly forbearance. We have all sinned against each other. We must now look beyond that and walk together to the sunny uplands of comity and understanding. He shall guide you.
