Originally posted by: BMW540I6speed
Originally posted by: eleison
may you have none of your family and friends get laid off due to the bad economics policy of your messiah... but I doubt it.... stop drinking the koolaid and think...
The right wing's "Messiah" meme is not based on any genuine description of how Obama is perceived by the left, but is a coded appeal to the prevalent and quite genuine belief among many religious righties that Obama is literally the Antichrist. His supporters don't sincerely think Obama is a Messiah. There are thousands (if not millions) of people who sincerely believe he is literally, no kidding, the Beast of Revelation.
I have heard this allegation discussed seriously and without ridicule on mainstream conservative radio, and while most of the big name talkers won't publicly and officially cosign the idea, they're careful not to dismiss it or mock it either. The Hannitys of the world don't want to completely marginalize themselves from the mainstream by explicitly endorsing pure, uncut bullshit, but they don't want to discourage the idea either, and they surreptitiously encourage it by trying to hammer words like "Messiah" and "Chosen One." They want to reinforce the completely fabricated notion that Barack Obama is displaying some kind of unnatural arrogance - that his popularity should be seen as disturbing and scary - that he is not just politically wrong, but deeply evil - and not just humanly evil but supernaturally evil.
The literal demonization of Barack Obama is overt and unashamed on the internet. On the radio, it's more covert and circumspect, but it's there. I don't know if their intentions are purely political or whether they have darker motivations, but we already know that threats against Obama spiked when McCain/Palin was at its most inflammatory, and it would surprise me a bit if some nutburger tried to take a run at Obama thinking he was the son of Satan. I also think that the increasing lack of responsibility on right wing radio and the increasingly hyperbolic villification of Barack Obama could easily be contributing factors. These guys know they're yelling fire.
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