On one level, I feel sorry for Barack Obama and what his family is going through. The attention of the crowds, even the attention of enemies, can feel like a drug. It can make a man feel pumped up. It can give a man a false sense of his own importance. And given the dizzying success of his Senate campaign in 2004 and his epic welcome in Kenya two years later, it would take a strong man to not let such hero worship go to his head.
Yet, such adulation itself is dangerous not only to the health of a free republic but especially to Barack Obama himself and the issues he stands for. Barack Obama’s popularity feels like the sea rushing away from the beach, giving the impression that the sea is parting before one’s eyes. This is when I know I should run for the hills, for that is a sure sign of a tsunami soon hitting the shore, sweeping away all of the children picking up seashells and stranded fish on the bank.
If a Soros-like figure is trying to control Obama, their strategy is probably to make him dependent on this sustained wave of mass hysteria. They’re going to use him up like a political Sid Vicious. Their little stage puppet. If they keep him hooked on the hysteria it ensures that BHO will need them more than he needs the people. The “people” can’t pay for these huge ad campaigns, but the big boys can.
But if Obama paused and thought for a moment, he could turn the tables on his backers. He’s got strengths of his own. Intelligence, articulateness, personability. If, as someone suggested, he finished his Senate term, did a stint as Governor of Illinois and went on a listening tour of the frontlines of Terror, Obama would be much, much stronger in 2012. And most important, he wouldn’t need the junk adulation wave underwritten by the Svengalis of the world. He’d be independent; largely his own man; a force on his own. As it is, if BHO gets into the White House on the rent-a-rock-star wave, with its cloud of spangles and jangling electric guitars, he’d be even more dependent on his backers to stay there. Stay on the wave and he just might wash up on the White House lawn. Used up but there. But he if wants greatness, which lies further than the White House, he needs to get off the wave.
