I'm amazed at the number of people who think Barack Obama is something special; to me he seems like just another politician. Put me in the tone deaf category, I suppose, but I'm immune to his soaring rhetorical appeals. To me, there are two major questions for the next President -- is he going to keep the economy strong, and is he going to keep the country safe? Barack Obama has no experience in either of these areas; he is a Harvard law school grad who worked as a community agitator before going into politics. He won the primaries by playing on the identity politics of the Democratic party and by going to the left of Hillary Clinton on the issue of the Iraq war.
For some people, that is not enough of an explanation. Obama, you see, is a lightworker . . .
Barack Obama isn't really one of us. Not in the normal way, anyway.This is what I find myself offering up more and more in response to the whiners and the frowners and to those with broken or sadly dysfunctional karmic antennae - or no antennae at all - to all those who just don't understand and maybe even actively recoil against all this chatter about Obama's aura and feel and MLK/JFK-like vibe.
To them I say, all right, you want to know what it is? The appeal, the pull, the ethereal and magical thing that seems to enthrall millions of people from all over the world, that keeps opening up and firing into new channels of the culture normally completely unaffected by politics?
No, it's not merely his youthful vigor, or handsomeness, or even inspiring rhetoric. It is not fresh ideas or cool charisma or the fact that a black president will be historic and revolutionary in about a thousand different ways. It is something more. Even Bill Clinton, with all his effortless, winking charm, didn't have what Obama has, which is a sort of powerful luminosity, a unique high-vibration integrity.
Dismiss it all you like, but I've heard from far too many enormously smart, wise, spiritually attuned people who've been intuitively blown away by Obama's presence - not speeches, not policies, but sheer presence - to say it's just a clever marketing ploy, a slick gambit carefully orchestrated by hotshot campaign organizers who, once Obama gets into office, will suddenly turn from perky optimists to vile soul-sucking lobbyist whores, with Obama as their suddenly evil, cackling overlord.
Here's where it gets gooey. Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.
Does the "new way of being" on the planet have anything to do with associating with corrupt mobsters or racial hate-mongers? It's not like you can avoid looking at that side of his resume.
To me, this is just silly. Obama's giant Nuremberg-sized rallies where he doles out platitudes hardly indicate any professional competence or great ideas. In fact, I think the rallies are designed to hide the lack of competence or great ideas.
As for being a "lightworker", as the New Age speak has it, well, we're all aware of who masquerades as an angel of light. I'm not accepting that Barack Obama is anything more than any ordinary man.
Hat tip to Ace.