Newsweek’s Evan Thomas: Obama is “Sort of God”

Hat Tip to News Busters.

Newsweek’s editor Evan Thomas couldn’t contain his man-crush on THE ONE during the D Day speech in Normandy. In an exchange with Chris (‘I get a tingle up my leg’) Matthews, the description of the event was more like a conversation between two love-sick adolescent girls at a Jim Jones Jesus Camp, instead of news analysis.

Go get a barf bag before you read this.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Tomorrow on the 65th anniversary of D-day, President Obama has a tough pair of acts to follow. His own speech yesterday and one given a quarter century ago. I remember getting up that morning in 1984 to catch President Reagan at Normandy. It was a real ‘Morning in America’ speech. I believe that Reagan’s ability to connect to World War II was a reason for his enormous popularity in this country. Here he was on the bluffs of France saying something very good about America, how we liberated Europe. That’s the heart of it, really. The reason Reagan was popular, Roosevelt was popular, Jack Kennedy was popular, and Barack Obama is popular. Don’t tear us down. Don’t make us feel like victims or the angry guys or the worried guys. Make us feel American. I think the President’s speech yesterday was the reason we Americans elected him. It was grand. It was positive. Hopeful. It said to the world, if you’re a good guy, you’ve got nothing to fear from us. If you’ve got national aspirations, if you want to be respected as a people, if you want to be treated as an equal people in the world, we’re on your side. If you’re an aggressor, if you want to hold down other people, if you’re driven by a predatory ideology, if you’re out to hurt this country, look out. We Americans are that rattlesnake on that first flag, ‘Don’t tread on me.’ But what I liked about the President’s speech in Cairo was that it showed a complete humility. What he did was rob from the enemy, those who want to destroy us, their main case, the belief that only by extremism can the East reach equality of dignity with the West. The question now is whether the President we elected and spoke for us so grandly yesterday can carry out the great vision he gave us and to the world. If he can, he’ll be honoring what happened on D-day 65 years ago tomorrow. He will be delivering the world once again from evil.

Evan Thomas is editor at large for Newsweek magazine. Evan, you remember ’84. It wasn’t 100 years ago. Reagan and World War II and the sense of us as the good guys in the world, how are we doing?

EVAN THOMAS: Well, we were the good guys in 1984, it felt that way. It hasn’t felt that way in recent years. So Obama’s had, really, a different task. We’re seen too often as the bad guys. And he – he has a very different job from – Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is ‘we are above that now.’ We’re not just parochial, we’re not just chauvinistic, we’re not just provincial. We stand for something – I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God. He’s-

MATTHEWS: Yeah.

……MATTHEWS: Let’s talk about the difference. He was talking about the evil empire, trying to reconcile with the people of Russia and the Soviet Union, but not the country. Barack Obama the other day was saying, yesterday, that we don’t have an enemy out there per se. We have people who choose extremism, but Islam’s not our enemy. That’s not the evil empire.

THOMAS: But Reagan did it with a very – for the first term it was a clenched fist. I mean, we ramped up the cold war before we ramped it down. We built up our military. We – all of this D-day stuff was about war. That was about fighting.

MATTHEWS: Right.

THOMAS: Reconciliation only after the fighting. That’s not – Obama’s not doing that. Obama – we’ve had our fighting. Obama is trying to sort of tamper everything down. He doesn’t even use the word terror. He uses extremism. He’s all about let us reason together. I think he has a much tougher job, frankly, because-

MATTHEWS: What’s his shtick? Reagan had the United States arms race, winning the arms race. And we had the threat of high frontier, we were going to beat the Soviets at technology.

THOMAS: I don’t think he has – his shtick is he’s the teacher. He’s the teacher. He is going to say, ‘now, children, stop fighting and quarreling with each other.’ And he has a kind of a moral authority that he – he can – he can do that-

MATTHEWS: If there’s a world election between him and Osama Bin Laden, he’s running a good campaign.

THOMAS: Yes, he is.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/06/05/newsweek-s-evan-thomas-obama-sort-god

First of all, Matthews ought to be smacked in his fat mouth for even uttering Obama’s name in the same breath with Ronald Reagan. Obama doesn’t have one fraction of the courage, patriotism, or integrity. “Delivering the world once again from evil?”  He’s delivering it to us.

His speech in Cairo was another example of pandering to hostile Islamofascist states, most of whom are laughing their asses off at his kowtowing, or salivating for a chance to exploit the weakness he’s creating in our national security.

“….so grandly yesterday can carry out the great vision he gave us and to the world…”?

What vision is that? An America crippled by a socialist economy and a foreign policy that makes Jimmy Carter look competent?

“….Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is ‘we are above that now.’ We’re not just parochial, we’re not just chauvinistic, we’re not just provincial.”

We’re not just going to look out for our country’s best interests anymore, either. Obama’s ‘above that now’.

“….we’ve had our fighting. Obama is trying to sort of tamper everything down. He doesn’t even use the word terror. He uses extremism. He’s all about let us reason together. I think he has a much tougher job…”

The fighting ain’t over yet, Thomas. And it won’t be until every Islamic terrorist shitbag either worships peacefully or is dead.  ‘Tamper everything down’…with apology tours and ass kissing. Yeah, let’s reason  with Al Qaeda.  They’re so receptive  to dialogue.

He does not have a tougher job. George W. Bush left that assclown a winning hand in the war against terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s his to fuck up, and believe me, he’s not wasting any time.

“…he has a kind of a moral authority…”

And how’d he get it? By hooking up with William Ayers? By getting steeped in corrupt Chicago politics? By using ACORN as his personal vote-getting apparatus?  By inflicting an oppressive socialist government on American taxpayers, private industry, banks, and corporations? Do as he says, not as he does?
That  kind of ‘moral authority’?
Note to Thomas: He’s not “god”. Get up off your knees and wipe your chin.