Peter Hitchens has noticed the cult Obama YouTube, Yes We Can:
"To an insistent beat, impossibly beautiful, multiracial young men and women endlessly repeat the slogan "Yes, we can", in a disturbingly mindless way. The thing contains no thought, no argument - just Obama worship."
A must-see website records the silly Messiah-like things that have been said about Senator Obama...
- "He empowers us with words... People are rushing into the tent to drink that Magic Water."
- "An Agent of Transformation... He is not operating on the same plane as ordinary politicians."
- "The Culmination of American History?"
- "A Metaphysical Force"
- "I felt this thrill going up my leg"
- "Obama is the 'New Wine'"
- "He is like a key. He is going to unlock a door."
- "Barack Obama is our collective representation of our purest hopes, our highest visions and our deepest knowings of who we are as a people, and as a country."
- "He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh."
Another way of thinking of Senator Obama - as a more enlightened Tory MP told me last week - is that (1) he wants to surrender to al-Qaeda in Iraq and (2) he will preside over a massive expansion of the American state.
