Religion & Law

More on Obama Mania

By Rob Vischer

Confession: I attended the Dems' caucus on Tuesday night with the intention of voting for Obama, but the crush of humanity (the vast majority of whom did vote for him) made me give up and return home.  Against that background, consider this op-ed forwarded to me by a student about the virtue of contemplation on Super Tuesday:

As soon as politics, for the sake of politics, becomes a society?s principle passion ? its object of hope, its pearl of great price ? that society has already subjected itself to a type of totalitarianism. Unwittingly, it has relinquished a citizen?s and a people?s privilege and responsibility of self-determination. It has bet the outcome of the common pursuit of happiness on the eventual good actions of chosen elite.

And consider this post from the ABC News blog about the cult of Obama.  Here's the opening:

Inspiration is nice. But some folks seem to be getting out of hand.  It's as if Tom Daschle descended from on high saying, "Be not afraid; for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all the people: for there is born to you this day in the city of Chicago a Savior, who is Barack the Democrat."

Full post as published by Mirror of Justice on February 07, 2008 (boomark / email).