Obama 'The Boy' Fools The Young
By J. Grant Swank Jr. (02/06/08)
Barack Obama has substance the size of a pea.
Yet the young flock toward him. The women love him, Oprah setting the run.
The media has adored him - every image they could catch. Obama solo. Obama embracing wife. Obama adoring daughters. Obama stooping down to gaze into a voter’s little child’s babyface.
The Super Tuesday commentators could not stroke him enough following his late-night hurrah-speech. They were spell bound by his cadence, his gaze, his winsomeness, even causing a woman nearby to break into gladdening tears.
When Obama goes onto a campus, the students form themselves into political groupies. Even at a southern Baptist college on Super Tuesday, the student body was mesmerized by his charm.
Obama walks into a sanctuary pulpit on the Lord’s Day, quotes Jesus’ words, tilts his head to the side and promises heaven come down. He relates how prayer helps him every day of his life. He witnesses to discovering Jesus a few years back at his Chicago church.
Obama even sponsored gospel concerts in the Carolinas. Of course scores of evangelicals, particularly the young, showed up to sing about God and Obama.
Yet this man is The Boy running for the presidency. He is all sophomoric student council president speech-making, nothing more.
This fellow knows nothing really about what America is, let alone what it needs. He theologically and politically is left of the left, specifically championing slaying womb babies. He is for same-gender duos. That cancels him out being a Christian, a caring parent, and the defender of every human in the nation.
Obama is The Boy who has nothing but large ears sticking out from an empty head and evil heart. Where the women find him a model for Gentlemen’s Quarterly is truly a mystery.
As one commentator on Super Tuesday wound things up near the close, the Dem race is going to be all about style but no substance. She got it right.
But who would even want the devil’s style?
Obama is The Boy model for Abercrombie and Fitch, nothing more, maybe even less.
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