K on Barack Obama

[highlyeccentric]

I keep getting weirded out by all the Obama-mania, and find that the best way to think of it is not so much as people electing a politician, but as America electing a temporary king. It is weird to get so het up about a politician, but if you're treating someone as the consummate symbol of your nation, that's close enough to a king for me.

Says K just now: "I keep wanting to slap people on my flist and say "he's just a man!... You're right about the king thing, Americans electing their king. It's like the English thing where the King can cure scrofula. Except the whole country's got scrofula. Which is pretty gross, actually."

Comments

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

I'm extremely wary of being emotionally manipulated from being in too many churches where the same techniques were used to get away with preaching sermons full of bad theology.

Me too. I want my sermons to be delivered like an academic lecture (albeit with appropriate drop in brain level for the congregation), and I DON'T like it when politicians preach their speeches. See my hackles? They're good at rising.

[anachronisma.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of the American people bought into the Obama style more than the message. The slogan "yes we can" means absolutely nothing (we can what?) but a lot of people took it mean that they were part of the democratic process, that they had a voice with Obama, that his success would mean their success in a personal way. Obama pinned so much of his hope of election on this style of... well, I'd call it evangelism, so much so that people who can't tell me a single one of his policies still are crazy about him.