Obama - Lightworker [Update]
By LisaB on June 6, 2008 at 7:35 PM in Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, California, Cult
UPDATE: We are told the author of the article mentioned is usually a San Fran humorist. He could be a real Kool-aid drinker or just a regional satirist. You’ll have to be the judge.
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There is a very earnest article out of San Francisco on why Obama is “more” than the rest of us in some way. Although I could easily make fun, there is no point. However, it might go a little way to understanding what folks see in the Democratic nominee.
Or not. Your choice. Read more ->
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.
Obama the soul worker. OK. . . . The author does deny he believes “celestial choirs” will come down, float an aura of light and well-being as our government finally works for the good of all. That’s something. But he does believe there is something special about Obama. Or maybe he just hasn’t ever heard about Chicago politics. Or Bill Ayers and his ideas about changing the world.
But there simply is no denying that extra kick. As one reader put it to me, in a way, it’s not even about Obama, per se. There’s a vast amount of positive energy swirling about that’s been held back by the armies of BushCo darkness, and this energy has now found a conduit, a lightning rod, is now effortlessly self-organizing around Obama’s candidacy. People and emotions and ideas of high and positive vibration are automatically draw to him. It’s exactly like how Bush was a magnet for the low vibrational energies of fear and war and oppression and aggression, but, you know, completely reversed. And different. And far, far better.
Apparently, Obama is a strange attractor, pulling all the positive vibes of the universe to our collective good. And as the small butterfly flutters its wings in Indonesia, we’ll have a hurricane of peace and love in the US.
Or not.
OK, I couldn’t help it. I guess I made a little fun. Still, the dude is spot-on in his description of the dark forces surrounding the current administration. Yet, there is a small problem. If Obama is a “lightworker” then what does that make anyone who opposes him, even mildly?
That’s just scary.
super scary.
a wee bit funny as well.
ROFLMAo THAT IS HYSTERICAL!!
What the HELL kind of LSD is that writer tripping on?????
Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! That’s nuck-N-FUtZ baby!!
no bout a doubt it!
lock them UP - they are a danger to themselves
It’s satire.
Are you sure about that? There is a lightworker website and a Wikipedia article.
http://lightworker.com/
Lightworker? Is that like a whitelighter? Maybe that writer needs to stop watching “Charmed” and get a real life.
Maybe he meant alien as from UFO- u for obama…?
Darth Vader. Is this for real? These people really do scare me. This is cult behavior.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3_jh2dO78U&feature=related
Well we know who trained Darth Vader first.
Do not be fooled.
Holy Shit. He is able to leap from one lie to another in a single bound. Grab the kryptonite.
snore.
The author of this Obama piece sounds a little wacky. Maybe he’s waiting for Obama to beam him up to Obama World.
No wonder Oprah likes him!
I guess those were lightworkers, too, the thugs who pushed and intimidated women and old people, people in wheelchairs, etc. at the caucuses.
Lightworkers who hack our blogs, or who come on here and insult us in vile ways.
Or the lightworker who gave the finger to Hillary, who called her a bitch (first primary), allowed people to freeze in Rezco’s Chicago apartments in his district, who had Rezco help buy his house, who lies about lobbyists. Plus, what has he ever ever done to show he’s a lightworker.
Bush put the handcuffs on us. Barack Hussein Obama will through the keys away. That much power to quick to someone so untried. That much power in the hands of a rookie? Nice message of change his ultimate lie. Sounds like Hitler to me.
Obama’s record does not show enough experience, desire or commitment. With no clue how to undo the trespass of Bush.
Obama will be the Anti Christ if not by purpose then he will be by accident.
Wow, they certainly have some good drugs out there!
Me thinking he might wanna be getting him some of that ….
Total bullshit. It is so scary on so many levels.
JUST SAY NO TO BLACK LIBERATION MARXIST THEOLOGY
NO OBAMA/MARXIST
HILLARY OR MCCAIN 2008
Just like Barky…
I’ll go with the “Or not!”
I’ve been known to be accused of weating a tin fopil hat on occasion due to my interest in astrology, but I know a fraud when I see one.
Lightworker ? ROFLMAO!
How come his followers, or those on-line at least, are such a crowd of hate-filled closed minded individuals ? (I tried to be polite)
Woooooooowooooooooo…
That explains my Bay area friends who voted for Obama…the air is different for them…woooooo wooooooooo.
p.s. Before I read this, I was looking up “demagnetizing magnets” on the internet (for a purse with a too strong magnet) and I read that if you rub two magnets together, you can de-magnetize them. So if we rub Obambi and Bush together, can we demagnetize them both?
I think that might cause a “nooc you ler” explosion…
Thanks LisaB - that was more fun than squishing trolls!
wearing……tin foil
– sorry - tin foil hat got in the way!
Uh-oh…all any self-respecting Christian evangelical has to do is take one look at that article and think…the anti-Christ!
I’ve been thinking Anti-Christ for a few weeks now. Read Daniel and Revelation then take a look at items happening all around us. I’ve been meaning to write a blog post just to piss off the Obama folks
Yes, I’ve heard many people here in the Southern U.S. talking about Obama in terms of the Anti-Christ. This article will just feed the flames!
Fuck yea.
I love it. Please let’s push this.
The fundies will love it.
So will all the christian zionists.
you’re a genius.
They will flood the polls hoping to hasten the rapture.
Great work guys, imagine all the nasty things people say about the inhabitants of this site, if they only knew.
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See, that’s it.
We DO know.
We know everything, including whom Obama was with, Tuesday night.
You silly.
Oh do please write it. I love to piss off Obama folk.
Oh my God! I thought the Obamessiah crap I read on Huffpo was freaky. These people are lunatics. They are truly incapable of thinking rationally about this man. God help us all.
That article was by far one of the scariest things I have ever read. God help us all, indeed.
I am amazed at how white ‘new agey’ types are so easily duped. Obama’s charisma and oratory style is almost a direct copy of the black evangelical ministers such as T.D. Jakes, Eddie Long, Jeremiah Wright, and yes, the great Martin Luther King. To hear these men speak, crazy remarks notwithstanding, is a truly uplifting experience. One is able to have moments of transcendence, connectedness, and unity, if you fully open for the experience. Obama has taken the best of their evocative styles, put it together with rock-star cool, and used it to draw in the masses.
Bill Clinton used a similar style, and it was very evocative, especially to blacks. That’s why Walker dubbed him the first black president.
There it ends, though. Obama is no lightworker. He’s not a Holy man. He’s not the Dalai Lama, though I could see a wonderful career opening up for him in the pulpit, if he wanted to go there.
And none of this means he should be president. Carter was a good man, a noble man, and a nice man. He was a terrible president.
Evangelical oratorial style, while inspiring and motivating to the downtrodden and Sunday worshippers, does not qualify one to be the nation’s chief executive.
New Age types are going to give themselves an even worse name than they already have with silliness like this.
It’s because they’re alcoholics. I bet you could even match the statistics - AA membership and Obama freaks.
Lightworkers, when heavy lifting is in order.
This article may imply to some that Sen. Obama is an extra-terrestrial “walk-in”.
I’m sorry but I’m roflmao!
He does resemble E.T. a bit. (But not as cute.)Let’s all contribute to buy him a phone so he can call home so they can come and take him back.
Mark Morford.
I could tell it was him after reading the first sentence.
Heh. The first paragraph WAS the first sentence. You really know your columnists!!
I need to get my hands on that half eaten waffle out of PA, eat it, and see the light! Maybe I could parcel it out in microns to the masses — break this Obama waffle and eat . . . . sorry, I am a rotten low vibration I guess, with a nasty side toward the one who found a weak path to victory via red state caucuses.
If Obama were all that he would have had the graciousness to wait until he was more experienced to run for President.
Who knows? I never met him, I never went to his church to get enlightened, and I never felt the vibration of his netherworld connection.
I need to get my hands on that half eaten waffle out of PA, eat it, and see the light!
Sorry, you’re too late! I read somewhere that the waitress took it home and later sold it on Ebay. It’s probably going to end up as sacred relic in his pyramid sometime in the future. All hail the holy waffle!
How sad when spiritually bankrupt new agey flakes have to turn to a politician to fill their void.
And these are the same morons who dare lecture the rest of us on politics, spirituality, positive campaigns.
God help us. The last time a political leader and “movement” was followed with religious fervor we ended up with concentration camps and a second world war!
ahh, those accidental Anti-christs. Almost an occupational hazard these days.
btw, anyone hear of this great book published a few years back, The Power Broker? It’s veehhhrryy prescient.
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/power_broker.php
Larry — is it a good read?
He’s a player. He flatters people and makes them think they are important or special for supporting him. He lets them think he will value their advice as president and so forth.
He’s a magnet for narcissist and weak minded fools.
Mark Morford’s columns belong on the funny pages. It is hard to take anything he writes seriously. His columns are pure editorial fluff, suitable only by electric kool-aid drinkers.
Oh my freakin goodness! I have sent Mark Morford a letter instructing him to set down the hopium pipe and open a damn window.
Listen folks, the only type of people who have this kind of charisma are cult leaders who plan to pass out cyanide koolaid. And a handful of serial killers who charmed their victims to death. This kind of charisma is always and I mean always, a very bad thing.
especially when there is no there there.
Don’t forget Jim Jones was a preacher in San Francisco dazzling politicians and media alike in his time.
The SF press gushed over him, the parishioners, and his community outreach programs in his church, constantly.
Ugh!
Recently, I’ve wondered if some of Jim Jones speeches have been plagiarized by the Obama staff…or have similiar themes.
They seem to lift intellectual property from everyone who had an impact on the masses, and Jim Jones qualifies.
That is where the Kool-Aid reference comes from.
Not sure if everybody understands the history of our little obamatrance messiah blind follower kool-aid jim jones reference.
Once the news started saying it was “creepy” there was an instant backing off by the obama camp of the messiah crap and he toned down his Gospel tour. But it is all documented on the very scary sites dealing with that.
He was the one that made it religious on purpose.
He is a sick puppy and his followers are idiots.
That said…
12/21/12 is one month after the next election…
I agree about making it religious on purpose.
And that is why he sat in that church too, besides the black cred it gave him. He needed to learn how to speak to the religious right and steal them away in the elections too.
Your date reminded me of this article on Obama and the Olympics. He claims he’ll see that date in his second term….ewww.
http://cbs2chicago.com/olympics2016/olympic.finalist.rally.2.741900.html
“Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama dropped in on the Chicago 2016 Olympics rally on Friday and declared he is confident that he will be winding up his second term in the White House when Chicago hosts the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
Such bravado about his own future is not typical of Obama, even in private. And, in the highly scripted world of modern politics, today’s last-minute appearance was unusual. Obama had told CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery on Thursday night that he had intended to ”chill out” at home for a few days.
“It’s a good time to be in Chicago,” Barack Obama said to the cheering crowd. “The White Sox are winning. The Cubs are winning. And Chicago’s going to win the 2016 Olympics.”
“In 2016, I’ll be wrapping up my second term as president, so I can’t think of a better way than to be marching into Washington Park alongside Mayor Daley, alongside Rahm Emanuel, alongside Dick Durbin, alongside Valerie Jarrett as President of the United States, and annoucing to the world, ‘Let the games begin!’”
The remark was a contrast to Obama’s usual style of rhetoric, which tends to be charismatic, yet understated and not prone to brash predictions. But since it became clear he was going to be the Democratic presidential nominee, a shift has been detected in his demeanor.”
Or Bill Ayers and his ideas about changing the world.
This is irrelevant.
“guilty as hell and free as a bird.”
There is a new article in Time mag about Ayers saying he isn’t such a bad guy afterall… I call UTTER BULL and I’ve felt that way for decades.
Tell that to the people he maimed and the families of the people he killed.
The obama apologist says it’s alright and blames obama’s rivals! “Rivals are wrong to make an issue of Obama’s links to former members of the Weather Underground — even if they are despicable.”
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1810338,00.html
Allah akbar!
He is most merciful.
ESPECIALLY when He puts large pools of petroleum under one’s homeland!
Change Obama to Bush in these fluff pieces, and you’ll be transported to a Red State (you know the ones Obama brags he will win) in the year 2000.
Mark Morford writes a HUMOR column. It’s satire.
No, it’s not satire. I had hoped beyond hope that it was just snark and humor. It is not, Mark means every word in all seriousness.
I wonder why he was not able to work his miracle in the ailing districts of Chicago where he got elected?
off topic, but had to write this in here. peggy noonan wrote an absolutely awful editorial about hillary.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121269958227749853.html?mod=todays_co lumnists
typical line..don’t give hillary the vp. she’ll poison his tea.
http://www.peggynoonan.com/contact.php
i wrote an angry response. hope all here will do the same.
I wrote her a lovely response saying I like Hillary and I am not lonely and I am drifting away from the Democratic party just as she did many years ago.
She is so disturbed.
I was always amazed that Noonan could manage to manipulate a QWERTY keyboard while simultaneously sticking her nose up The Addled Puppet Reagan’s butt.
LOL that is just a little too much.
I THOUGHT I edited the really offensive sentence out.
That must mean Hillary is an Uber Lightwalker (since she actually attracted MORE people to her candidacy)!!
I wonder how all the race baiting, sexism, lying, and hyocrisy from the Obama campaign is filtered through all those “good vibrations.”
By the way, San Francisco is a divided city. The asians and hispanics are not pro-Obama. I think Obama will be using any Clinton “endorsement” he can get to woo these voters. The Obama camp seems to already have a site on Broadway Street right in the heart of Chinatown ready to be used as a “proganda” office. It has a large Obama poster up for a couple of months now. I hope McCain knows these voters are up for grab.
San Francisco politics are a strange mixture. Gays have numbers and political power and the Asians also have the numbers but a bigger part of the real estate pie. Although Gays have done tremendous work improving the beauty of the City. I’ve always wondered who would rule out in the long run. All-in-all it does work somehow in a way that it wouldn’t anywhere else in this country. I don’t think the Hispanics have the same sway in the City though. I could be wrong though.
For the most part, everyone tolerates each other. If some asians are not exactly pro-gay, they aren’t virilently anti-gay either. And if some whites don’t like asians, they are not vocally anti-asian either. Hispanics don’t have the same sway because the hispanics like the AA’s living in the city have lower incomes. Obama will try to woo the lower income folks first by registering them to vote and getting them excited at the prospect of a “black president” Then he will woo the asians with money politics, and the gays and whites with liberal talking points. All the baits are set, it just a matter of whether people will bite.
I’m about to puke. If people are going to call him anything spiritual they should be on the demonic end of the spectrum.
This WILL bring out the Evangelicals.
They go apeshit over new ageism.
I listened to the Radio Preachers putting out the similar stuff about Dubya after 2000: “He is a chosen one but only the elect can perceive it.” It was straight out of The Emperor’s New Clothes.
Yes, Morford is a satirist. He’s usual targets are Bush and the republicans. Interesting that he’s satirizing the Obama love train.
I’ve read this 3-4 times. There are some funny bits, but other bits sound straightforward. He also puts in several disclaimers about how it sounds. Is this his usual pattern??
[...] Update by Jay: Even leftwingers are joking this one. [...]
Anybody this this jerk’s posts? This is how he is bragging to dailyidiots about his way to win us over:
I’ve posted this on several pro-Hillary websites:
by brdc4
Fri Jun 06, 2008 at 05:53:53 PM PDT
I’ve posted the following message on several websites and blogs supporting Hillary Clinton, because it will do a lot more good there than it will on this site.
We need to start winning over Clinton supporters. You all should write similar posts on websites where Clinton supporters have been talking about voting for McCain or staying home. Don’t be agressive, try to see their side of the story, and remind them that McCain is against everything Clinton stands for.
brdc4’s diary :: ::
How many of you are really considering voting for McCain? I know the campaign’s been long, divisive, and bitter, but do you really think John McCain’s positions on the issues match yours?
Yes I know that some of you feel that the will of the people was “ignored.” You have a valid argument But you have to understand that we on the Obama side also had a valid argument. For example, I feel that the caucus states should be counted in the popular vote with the same passion that you all have when you say they don’t reflect the will of the people. I know some of you think that Florida and Michigan should have been fully counted. Again, please realize that while this is a valid argument, the Obama argument is also valid (our argument is that since people were told their votes wouldn’t count, there are surely people who stayed home and didn’t vote and that the election was therefore flawed). Regardless of whether you agree w/ that argument, please at least try to see the thought process behind it. What I’m trying to say is to tone back the “Obama stole the election” rhetoric. I know that it’s hard to have your candidate lose such a close race, especially when there was an honest and intense debate over rules–the result of which would determine the winner.
Trust me when I say that if Clinton had won the nomination, it would be a hard pill for me (an Obama supporter) to swallow, but I wouldn’t have hesitated to vote for her in November, regardless of my personal opinions of the campaign tactics she used. This election should be about the issues.
McCain is against everything that Senator Clinton stands for. Do you want to end the war in Iraq? Do you want to prevent a war with Iran? Do you want universal health care? Do you want solutions to global warming and environmental problems? Do you want to see some actual diplomacy in our foreign relations? Do you want our veterans to have the best benefits possible? Because McCain won’t do any of this. And while a revenge vote for McCain might feel good when you cast your ballot, I can promise you it won’t feel good during the next 4 years.
By now it sounds cliche, but we need party unity. We can’t win in November without Clinton supporters. I humbly ask for an Obama vote from you in November.
I AM THINKING I HAVE SEEN THIS POST BEFORE - IF YOU HAVE PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT HIS SCREEN NAME IS
THANKS.
JUST SAY NO TO BLACK LIBERATION MARXIST THEOLOGY
NO OBAMA/MARXIST
HILLARY OR MCCAIN 2008
Obama’s a joke. Can’t wait tell he gets vetted and people are shocked
Why can’t you guys just be happy to kick the republicans out of office?
He is a democrat and will of other democrats working with him in the white house. If you guys are really that uncomfortable with him hopefully his vp pick will left settle your concerns.
Yeah, he better pick a VP that knows what the hell he/she’s doing. Then they can send Mr. Light Worker out on the unending campaign trail to keep him out of the White House, just like they did with W.
Come on, this guy sucks the big one. I’d much rather have McCain with all his flaws. At least he’ll really be running the country.
I wouldn’t vote for Obama even with Hillary on the ticket, but I’m still waiting for Tony Rezko to turn RAT. Rezko is broke, owes $450,000 to Vegas and they are pressing criminal charges, and he still has another corruption trial. He is sitting in jail right now, I think he was afraid to go out on the street for fear of being killed and opted for protection in jail.
Did you not notice that the govt is made up of repubs and DEMS? Who do you think let Bush get away with everything? A Dem congress with a weak President would be a disaster. You need a strong Dem President or a Repub to balance things out. If a Dem congress can’t stand up to McCain, they should be voted out of office, but I expect their constituents just sit back and whine…. ‘can’t you just be happy’ sniff, sniff.
Most of the people on this site wouldn’t, but I would vote for a joint ticket. Wouldn’t vote for Obama without Clinton, ever.
The thing you have to understand about these people is that they honestly believe the things Ostinka(that’s what I call him sometimes) is saying.
If they could just spen a few minutes on this board they would see that the world is not all happy and shiny and “hopeful”
HOPE my ass!!!(excuse my french)
Maybe if they heard a little story about a friend of mine named red dragon they wouldn’t feel so hopeful.
Red dragon was hosting a dinner party. He asked OBARFO if he could turn up the heat or something and OJERKA went totally off on him. He was cursing and and flinging feces and tried to stab Red Dragon with a cocktail fork.
He did not say anything directly racist, but you could see in his eyes that he was thinking very very racist thoughts. Anyway the story has a hapy ending and red dragon escaped uninjured and he would up here with our family of people who are full of hate and rage.
If the Obamabots could just visit here for a day, maybe we could convince them. that is why I proposed a restaraunt. For a while I got some good feedback on the idea but It seems like people have lost interest.
Come on people is anybody still interested in a We Hate Obama Theme restaraunt?
I won’t pursue this any further if nobody wants to do it with me.
Whatever!
I hate OBAMA so MUCH!!!!! I could spend all day talking about how much I hate him and everyone who thinks different from us. they are all jerks! Totally
Truly Larry, I do wish you would get rid of this A Hole.
I second that.
Why guys? I think you have to be charitable here. Obviously all his ideas were not “right on” some had very interesting seeds of truth. I think the theme restaurant idea is quite practical and worth considering.
My main point though: It’s important that we all stay in solidarity and not start eating our own! It’s also important that we not become the elitists we so despise. Just because one of us has over-zealous ideas, his heart is clearly in the right place with his steadfast commitment toward Obama hatred.
Thank you Right ON.
I might not be as witty or informed as everyone else on this board. But shouldn’t my vote count?
You are one of the good ones!
Light worker is right. Light in a lot of other areas as well.
I know like light in the loafers!
Not that there is anything wrong with that. Although I do like that Hilary 4 u and me video but whatever!
I eagerly await “South Park’s” treatment of Hope-A-Dope. If you recall the episode wherein they lampooned Prius drivers, there was a side slam where they characterized SFBay denizens as being prone to sniffing their own flatulence.
Meanwhile, the souls of Jim Jones and the Bhagwhan are laughing their (spiritual) asses off.
Meanwhile, thinking of wearing sandals, a diaper and wire-rimmed glasses and changing my name to, “Baba Rum Raisin.”
Obama is a light worker, yes.
Is that a reason to make him President?
I tell you, it’s very clever disinfo, to fool all…
lol.
Morford, you beautiful bastard! I read your book!
Thanks for the Patton reference. L’audace, l’audace. toujours l’audace.
“A good plan, executed right now, is better than a perfect plan, executed tomorrow.” - George Patton
Something ain’t right about that “light.” Do light workers run a campaign that smears a good woman as a serial liar, as they did Hillary Clinton?
Umm, no.
When I told my father I was going to a college near San Francisco, he told me the place was filled with fruits and nuts. That was in the early 70s. Now the place is filled with people who can identify light workers. (I actually met one last summer._
However, this link does make is sound like Morford is making fun of the kool aid messiah.
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/archive/