Barack Obama

Barack Obama

All about Barack Obama and his campaign for the presidency. Whether you love him or you hate him, you can't deny that he is shaping the debate! His full name is Barack Hussein Obama. His middle name and family religious background... [more]

All about Barack Obama and his campaign for the presidency. Whether you love him or you hate him, you can't deny that he is shaping the debate!
His full name is Barack Hussein Obama. His middle name and family religious background have already come under scrutiny.

He is the junior U.S. Senator from Illinois.

According to the U.S. Senate Historical Office, he is the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history and the only African American presently serving in the U.S. Senate.

Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. In November 2004, he was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat.

Recent opinion polls show that Barack Obama is the most popular choice among Democratic voters for their party's nomination in the 2008 U.S. presidential election.

He is married to Michelle Obama and he has two daughters.

Darkly Amusing Hyperbole Against Obama

Yesterday, I wrote an article with the goal of helping Republicans release the poison of anti-Obama hatred from their veins, engaging in a cathartic release so that they could then begin the task of reacquainting themselves with reality. I imagined the worst that the Republicans could say about Barack Obama: Barack Obama Exposed As A Muslim Giraffe From France Whose Secret Brother Is A Stockbroker for Satan!

I was trying to be outrageous, to go so far that even Republicans would recognize how bizarre their anti-Obama rhetoric has become. It turns out, however, that the Republicans were already ahead of me, imagining scenarios just as outrageous as the fantasy I had cooked up.

Take, for example, W.B.B. Johnson, who says that if Barack Obama is elected President, “we revert back into the dark ages and slavery, dictatorship’s and rule. If you won’t stand up and fight now…before they sink their teeth in for the final time…we ALL LOSE!”

What in the world is W.B.B. Johnson talking about? Why does he think that Barack Obama as President would bring about slavery and dictatorship, when Barack Obama has actually spoken out strongly against both?

The answers are not easy to find, given the convoluted nature of W.B.B. Johnson’s conspiracy theories. However, the answer seems to come back to the Bible. Instead of evaluating Barack Obama according to what Barack Obama actually says and does, W.B.B. starts his political analysis from a much more ancient source: The Christian Bible.

W.B.B. Johnson looks first and fundamentally at the words of the Bible, assuming them to be literally true, and seeks guidance in understanding today’s presidential campaign from those words, even though they are almost two thousand years out of date.

So, in W.B.B. Johnson’s mind, whatever the Bible suggests about Barack Obama’s character must be true, even if that is contradicted by everything that Barack Obama actually says and does. Given the plain fact that the Bible never mentions Barack Obama, there’s a wide opening for creative interpretation, and W.B.B. does indeed get quite creative.

His conclusion is that Barack Obama will bring about biblical prophecies of Armageddon if elected President. How will Barack Obama bring about a satanic one world government that will spark the End Times? W.B.B. explains, “The governments of the world are doing in concert, that which only individual kingdom’s had tried in years past. RULE the world and ALL of the people in it! Why do you think they want a hybrid that won’t be patriotic in office?”

Yes, you read that right. W.B.B. calls Barack Obama a “hybrid”. A hybrid, of course, is the result of interbreeding between two species - as when a horse and a donkey create a mule.

What W.B.B. Johnson means to suggest is that Europeans and Africans are not just people of different ethnicities, but actually are two separate species. W.B.B. believes that a “hybrid” like Barack Obama is somehow more likely to lead Satan into power over all the world than purebloods.

So, racism, libertarianism and bizarre religious prophecies all get tied together into a single psychological Gordian Knot that W.B.B. and his ilk cannot break free from once it begins to wind its way around their minds. No facts or logic is needed to support this conception of Barack Obama as the ultimate evil - only fear is necessary, and the fear of Barack Obama seems to support itself.

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While i will be the first to say that what W.B.B. said was incoherant at the least, the average moderate, educated, college degree weilding American finds many flaws in Obama. He has a sincere lack of judgment problem, not to mention his socialist based agenda- infact he's the most left based senator there is period. If there is anything the last debate showed us its that he's horribly ignorant on economic theory or economics period. He is a losing ticket...just watch.

JakeCollette - The very fact that you can use a phrase like "socialist based agenda" indicates that you're quite far from moderate. That's a right wing catch phrase if I ever heard one.

As far as ignorance on the economy, Barack Obama is the only one who had the intelligence to get it right on the "gas tax holiday". Barack Obama was backed up by a letter written by hundreds of economists, while John McCain and Hillary Clinton said to ignore the economists' professional opinions.
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