obama-sort of god?

[DaveH]

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Tomorrow on the 65th anniversary of D-day, President Obama has a tough pair of acts to follow. His own speech yesterday and one given a quarter century ago. I remember getting up that morning in 1984 to catch President Reagan at Normandy. It was a real "˜Morning in America"™ speech. I believe that Reagan"™s ability to connect to World War II was a reason for his enormous popularity in this country. Here he was on the bluffs of France saying something very good about America, how we liberated Europe. That's the heart of it, really. The reason Reagan was popular, Roosevelt was popular, Jack Kennedy was popular, and Barack Obama is popular. Don't tear us down. Don't make us feel like victims or the angry guys or the worried guys. Make us feel American. I think the President's speech yesterday was the reason we Americans elected him. It was grand. It was positive. Hopeful. It said to the world, if you're a good guy, you've got nothing to fear from us. If you"™ve got national aspirations, if you want to be respected as a people, if you want to be treated as an equal people in the world, we're on your side. If you're an aggressor, if you want to hold down other people, if you're driven by a predatory ideology, if you're out to hurt this country, look out. We Americans are that rattlesnake on that first flag, "˜Don't tread on me."™ But what I liked about the President's speech in Cairo was that it showed a complete humility. What he did was rob from the enemy, those who want to destroy us, their main case, the belief that only by extremism can the East reach equality of dignity with the West. The question now is whether the President we elected and spoke for us so grandly yesterday can carry out the great vision he gave us and to the world. If he can, he'll be honoring what happened on D-day 65 years ago tomorrow. He will be delivering the world once again from evil. Evan Thomas is editor at large for Newsweek magazine. Evan, you remember '84. It wasn't 100 years ago. Reagan and World War II and the sense of us as the good guys in the world, how are we doing?

EVAN THOMAS: Well, we were the good guys in 1984, it felt that way. It hasn't felt that way in recent years. So Obama"™s had, really, a different task We're seen too often as the bad guys. And he "“ he has a very different job from "“ Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is "˜we are above that now."™ We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something "“ I mean in a way Obama"™s standing above the country, above "“ above the world, he"™s sort of God. He"™s-


MATTHEWS: Yeah.

THOMAS: He's going to bring all different sides together.

I tell ya, be VERY suspicious of obama. He ain't here to fix things for us. I have my own suspicions about who he really is and nothing I've seen to this point has served to dissuade me of this. This discussion (which I copied from the political forum) adds fuel to that growing list of reasons to distrust everything he says and does. I realize that obama didn't say these words, but his actions aredirectly responsible forpeople thinking that way.

[Kosherboy]

If He isn't he sure sounds like The One.