That painting is over 2 years old, and the artist has repeatedly stated he painted it because of republicans who were suggesting democrats worshipped Obama, not because he thinks Obama is Christ like.
"...because of republicans who were suggesting democrats worshipped Obama,..."
Is it possibly that you are not merely a Democrat flack, but totally oblivious???
No....let me change that: you are the paragon of the brainwashed.
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the Obamas are not just a beacon of hope, inspiration and demigodlikeness,
Sometimes a President Is Just a President - NYTimes.com
2. NBCs Matt Lauer noted that people have called Obama The Savior, The Messiah, The Messenger of Change, Today Show, NBC, October 20, 2008.
3. Obama seemed the political equivalent of a rainbow a sudden preternatural event inspiring awe and ecstasy.... Times Joe Klein, October 23, 2006 cover story, "Why Barack Obama Could Be the Next President."
4. Chris Matthews: "If you're in [a room] with Obama, you feel the spirit moving."
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5. Time's Nancy Gibbs who opened this week's cover story by comparing Obama with Jesus: Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope... In the November 17 issue.
6. Today? Still mobs: the Hollywood celebrities pledge Go to 3:54: "I pledge to be a servant to our president and all mankind." Creepy? [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51kAw4OTlA0]Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher's I Pledge Video - YouTube[/ame]
7. He claimed, at his nomination, that this would be the moment when the rise of the oceans would begin to slow and our planet begin to heal. Barack Obamas victory speech, June 3, 2008 The day will come when we look back at this display of hubris and narcissism, and the complicity of the public which found him more popular than Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King, and Mother Teresa (January 2009 poll found in Christianity Today, February 22, 2009) as astounding.
8. Susan Sarandon: He is a community organizer like Jesus was, and now were a community and he can organize us. The Hill, January 21, 2009
9. David Cordero, 24, made the sculpture for his senior show after noticing all the attention Obama has received: "All of this is a response to what I've been witnessing and hearing, this idea that Barack is sort of a potential savior that might come and absolve the country of all its sins," Cordero said. Sculpture of Obama as Jesus causes stir - politics - Decision '08 - Barack Obama News - msnbc.com
10. . Rabbi David Saperstein, reading from Psalms in English and Hebrew, noticed from the altar that the good men and women of the congregation that day, including the Bidens and other dignitaries, had not yet stood. Finally Bishop Vashti McKenzie of the African Methodist Church asked that everyone rise. At that moment Saperstein saw something from his angle of vision: "If I had seen it in a movie I would have groaned and said, 'Give me a break. That's so trite.'" A beam of morning light shown [sic] through the stained-glass windows and illuminated the president-elect's face. Several of the clergy and choir on the altar who also saw it marveled afterward about the presence of the Divine.
The Promise: President Obama, Year One, by Jonathan Alter.
(Simon & Schuster, May 2010 - p. 102)
And...for your education, an area in which you are sorely in need....
The mob characteristic most gustily exhibited by liberals is the tendency to worship and idolize their political leaders. Le Bon explained that mobs can only grasp the very simple and very exaggerated. Their chosen images must be absolute and uncompromising
As Le Bon says, the primitive black-and-white emotions of a crowd slip easily into infatuation for an individual. Liberals worship so many political deities that they must refer to them by initials, just to save time- FDR, JFK, RFK, MLK, LBJ, and O.J. Ever hear a conservative get weepy about RWR or refer to something as hokey as Camelot?
Passionate adoration are the primitive emotions of a mob, sentiments generally associated with women, children, and savages, according to Le Bon.
Coulter, "Demonic," chapter two.
