Demonic_ How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America - Ann Coulter [9]
It’s almost like a “Can You Top This” game with liberals describing their political idols. In a Time magazine cover story, reporter Nancy Gibbs compared Obama to Jesus—and not sarcastically, the way the rest of us do. The article began, “Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope.”20 Of course, as the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama. (But I’m sure the risen Christ appreciated the shout-out.)
Run-of-the-mill Democrats behave the exact same way. Time magazine’s Walter Shapiro reported that the “swooning and the cooing on the rope lines during the last days of the Clinton campaign were unavoidably reminiscent of Kennedy. In Louisville, Kentucky, the scene seemed out of Beatlemania.”21 Except that when one of the Beatles claimed they were bigger than Jesus, people got upset. Newsweek’s Joe Klein talked about the “emotional connection” crowds had for Clinton.22 The Washington Post’s Phil McCombs described the Democratic crowds pouring out to glimpse Bill Clinton: “To watch this President connect with people emotionally is an awesome thing.”23 (And if you think that’s awesome, you should see the guy dry-hump a cocktail waitress in an elevator.)
But Clinton was just a hustler from Arkansas compared with Obama. Barack’s supporters posted endless YouTube tributes to him, taught schoolchildren to sing paeans to him, wore Obama T-shirts for their mug shots, cried and fainted at his speeches. “You can see it in the crowds,” ABC’s Terry Moran said on Nightline of Senator Barack Obama’s supporters. “The thrill, the hope. How they surge toward him. You’re looking at an American political phenomenon.… He inspires the party faithful and many others, like no one else on the scene today.” Except maybe Kanye West, I would have added if anyone had asked me. Moran continued, “Around here, they’re even naming babies after him.”24 At that point, Obama hadn’t even been in the Senate for two full years.
NBC anchor Brian Williams reported that in Berlin Obama “brought throngs of people” into the center of the city, “surging to get close to him, to hear his message.… I heard one American reporter tonight say it’s hard to come up with a list of others who could draw such a crowd, but then again it’s hard to know what we witnessed here today.”25 Wasn’t there another political leader who brought out the crowds like that in Berlin once?
Harold Koplewicz, president of the Child Mind Institute, explained the liberal esteem for Obama by saying, “He was going to end war, end the recession, improve education, improve our image to the world, and provide universal health care. Whether or not he could actually do it wasn’t important. It was the belief in him that was.”26 Well, exactly. When a guy’s that good at making promises, who cares about actual results? Bush lied, kids died! Go green!
It’s remarkable how similar it is for nearly every Democratic president.
Giving President Andrew Jackson the strange new label of “rock star,” his biographer Jon Meacham reports that this father of the Democratic Party drew “staggering” crowds of admirers, with one newspaper describing Jackson as “happy in their affections and loving them with all a parent’s love.”27
A parent’s love? What is it with these Democrats? It is nothing more than the mass psychosis of a mob.
In a YouTube video made by actor Ashton Kutcher just after Obama’s inauguration, dozens of Hollywood celebrities