The Noble Lie

What did Obama know about Operation Scare the Shit out of NY?

Wow. Barack Obama sends HENRY KISSINGER to Russia for peace talks.

The Daily Telegraph has learned that the 85-year-old former US secretary of state met President Dmitry Medvedev for secret negotiations in December. According to Western diplomats, during two days of talks the octogenarian courted Russian officials to win their support for Mr Obama's initiative, which could see Russia and the United States each slashing their nuclear warheads to 1,000 warheads.

The decision to send Mr Kissinger to Moscow, taken by Mr Obama when he was still president-elect, is part of a plan to overcome probable Republican objections in Congress.

Kissinger was part of Obama's team pre-election? I never heard that little gem. Of course, many of us know that Obama has rubbed elbows with these Trilateral Commission boys since at least the days he attended Columbia U. during Mr. Brzezinski's tenure.

But who would've thought we'd actually send Dr. Strangelove to Russia. Hmmm.. time to listen to McCain's "Orwellian" comments again.

In related coziness, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is a former employee of Kissinger Associates, Inc.

With figures of trillions being thrown around almost daily in the news, this number doesn't seem as big as it would have if we weren't in the midst of financial armageddon.

Obama's final fundraising total for his presidential campaign came to $750 million dollars. For perspective, the combined campaign funds of George W. Bush and John Kerry weighed in at about $650 million in the 2004 election.

Obama did not make this unprecedented amount by $5 and $10 dollar donations from Joe Six-Pack. It had a lot more to do with mega-billionaires like Warren Buffet and Penny Pritzker hosting $28,000 a plate dinners for his campaign.

I have tried to cut back on the political issues on my site; sometimes in the heat of an election spin cycle, I forget momentarily that politics is little more than public theater. To be honest, I'm so sick of the names John McCain, Barack Obama, and Sarah Palin that I could puke.

This is not a political discourse or an endorsement of either candidate. If (big IF) I vote for anybody, it will be Cynthia McKinney, because I think she has integrity. I'm chiefly interested in language and invoked symbols in this post. McCain is powerless but Sarah Palin is not. As far as I'm concerned, this race is between Obama and Palin.

Thanks to UV Garden again for this first clip. Here is a pretty disgusting video of some Sarah Palin supporters.. and Sarah being blessed by people standing around her speaking in tongues. This video is just disgusting, especially the person who is screaming about the MURDERERS who take birth control pills.

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Here is a video of Louis Farakhan preaching to his people to consider Obama as an ambassador from God. Hard times and struggling people need a hero to worship, and Obama is being offered up for that role. He is trying to make Obama sound like something more than human, like he comes from a special womb, or a magical place.

A lot of people on the web freaked out claiming Farakhan called Obama the Messiah, but if you listen he didn't really do that. He called Obama the Herald of the Messiah, and I think he mentions how careful he has to be about what he says. In Bible terms, this would cast Obama in the role of John the Baptist. The herald of the messiah, in the case of John the Baptist, prepares the world for the messiah's coming, anoints the messiah, and is killed.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.

Now this was John's testimony when the Jews of Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was. He did not fail to confess, but confessed freely, 'I am not the Christ.' They asked him, 'Then who are you? Are you Elijah?' He said, 'I am not.' 'Are you the Prophet?' He answered, 'No.' Finally they said, 'Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?' John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, 'I am the voice of one calling in the desert,"Make straight the way for the Lord."'

Book of John

The Herald of the Messiah is also the dawn or morning star which heralds the "new sun rising."

“A light will shine down from somewhere. It will light upon you. You will experience an epiphany. And you will say to yourself, I have to vote for Barack. I have to do it."
-Barack Obama

A lot of people are riding on their candidate, on both sides, so that they can reshape America in their own image. Besides the messianic overtones, both of these clips also mention a need or desire to transform America. And we will be transformed, by hook or by crook.

I know I am not the only person who gets the chills pondering Kennedy's very liberal sentiment, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

Messianic links

• John The Baptist, The Herald of the Messiah's Coming
• Gospel of Barnabas (didn't make the Bible cut)

EDIT: I meant to include this, here's a great article (from somebody who would think I'm a loon, no doubt, but it's still a great article) on the the power of image over issues in politics.

Though Barack Obama and many of his supporters were quick to disown this passionate, fiery-tempered preacher, in many ways this man is more charismatic and more correct than the presidential candidate. I thought his statements were inspiring and was disappointed to see Obama disown them so quickly, especially since they are true.

Here are the books he mentioned; I haven't read them yet but they're on my list. I know the gist of the topics both cover.

• Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola: Nature, Accident or Intentional? by Leonard Horowitz
• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans by Harriet Washington

I would add one more to this list:

• Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison by Allen Hornblum