Marathon Pundit: The liberal messiah: Barack Obama

She got to her room and tears splashed the picture
of the new Messiah.
"Sally Simpson," The Who, 1969.

In today's American Thinker, J.R. Dunn talks about the liberal messiah. Although Funn writes an excellent article, credit for coming up with the label "messiah" to describe Barack Obama goes to Michael Madigan, who is the Speaker of the Illinois House and Chairman of the Illinois Democratic Party. Scroll down to the update section three posts down for more on him.

Madigan was upset with Obama (You mean not all Democrats love him?) two years ago for his role in upsetting the apple cart by endorsing ethically-challenged Alexi Giannoulias, "The Boy Banker," for state treasurer in the primary election that spring.

Barack Obama is our new liberal messiah, offering redemption for our country's original sin. In the early stages of the campaign, he was viewed as a nice fella with an interesting background and a sad lack of real experience. But now we're asked to believe that at some point, perhaps while flying between Ottoumwa and Dubuque, the Mandate of Heaven settled on his shoulders, and he became "The new JFK" (the Times of London), "a glamorous and romantic figure" (the New York Sun), "the hope of a new generation" (everybody).

Here is Gary Kamiya of Salon:

Obama's victory seemed almost otherworldly--as if the laws of space and time had been suspended, and a quality as evanescent and fragile as hope had suddenly become real. I am not a religious person, but it was hard not to feel that his triumph vindicated the essence of what I think of as the secular essence of religion, something even nonbelievers can believe in: the possibility of inner transformation. A transformation at once personal and national.