And why does Europe have a higher regard for Barack than America? Because they have no clue as to what is going on in this country.

Editor's notes: in this we try to have a little fun, offer some facts and wonder if this European is serious about Obama being more influential than Christ. Our comments are in green - the text is out of Politiken.DK and is included in its entirity.

The U.S. president - the practical saviour of our times




He is provocative in insisting on an outstretched hand, where others only see animosity.

“. . . others only see animosity . . . “ like those pesky Russians invading Georgia or N Korea with a leader actually named Ill, or Chavez bringing in hundreds of missiles to Venezuela, or Castro killing his own citizens, or Iran beating to death those who yearn for freedom or the Palestinians lobbing 1600 missiles per year into Israel hoping they hit something like a school or a church or synagogue or . . .

His tangible results in the short time that he has been active – are few and far between. His greatest results have been created with words and speeches – words that remain in the consciousness of their audience and have long-term effects.

Under no circumstance does "tangible" include simply words or speeches. The author wants there to be measurable results to Obama's tenure but there really aren't any, "few and far between" is code for "zero." Oh, he tries to reverse this latter in the piece, but we all know better.The sad thing is that he does too.

He comes from humble beginnings and defends the weak and vulnerable, because he can identify himself with their conditions.

Technically, all he has done is insure that the poor remain poor, that the helpless continue to look for handouts, that the weak never learn to stand on their own two feet. We ask, where in God's green Earth does Marxism move people up the social and financial ladder? Unless you become part of the ruling class, upward movement only applies to pole vaulting.

And no we are not thinking of Jesus Christ, whose birthday has just been celebrated - - but rather the President of the United States Barack Hussein Obama.

Wow ! How come the rest of us didn’t think of this?

For some time now, comparisons between the two have been a tool of cynical opinion that quickly became fatigued of the rapture that Obama instilled prior to and after the presidential election last year.

When was the last time any of our readers remember seeing an American article celebrating Obama as Messiah? Europe has forgotten that Obama won the ’08 elections by only 7% of the popular vote and would not win reelection at the present time. The negative polling numbers include some 72 million Americans. When in full force, 120 million vote. You do the math.

From the start, Obama’s critics have claimed that his supporters have idolised him as a saviour, thus attempting to dismantle the concrete hope that Obama has represented for most Americans.

What this poor smuck does not know is that Obama made a lot of promises without having any plans for bring them to completion -- except, of course, those plans he did not share with America during the campaign. He promised the closing of GITMO and still talks as if he has closed the prison when the truth includes the fact that he still has no plan for closing the place down. He was going to hold unemployment to under 8% but had no viable plan for doing so. He was going to heal the divide with our enemies - they mock him in ways they did not with Cowboy Bush. His health care plan is not his – it is the creative work of Pelosi and Reid and the plan has been gutted of the essentials he wanted in the bill. The earth was going to begin to cool when he attended Copenhagen - but nothing happened there except for a severally cold winter storm. He was going to off-set the need for Middle Eastern oil by getting Americans to properly air up their tires. He has delivered 530 speeches -- if we allow 3 hours per speech on average for delivery, writing and review and travel to and from, he has spent 6 months of the 11 he has been in office doing nothing but giving speeches and personal appearances -- 6 months of nothing but talk, talk, talk out of 11. He wants terrorist Mirandized on the battle field and given lawyers and civil rights. He and his minions have spent more than 2 trillion dollars per month since he has been in office. Over the coming 100 years, this will cost America well over 50 trillion just in interest. (TARP's Special Inspector General tells us that they have run 23 trillion through TARP and the beat goes on for another full year with TARP funding.)

The idea was naturally that the comparison between Jesus and Obama – which is something that the critics developed themselves – would be comical, blasphemous, or both.

If such a comparison were to be made, it would, of course, inevitably be to Obama’s advantage.

Well, sure. Apparently this little munchkin doesn’t believe in God at all so, of course he believes in Obama.

Today, his historic Health Reform is being passed through the American Senate – a welfare policy breakthrough that several of his predecessors have been unable to manage.

Despite all the compromises, it has finally been possible to ensure something so fundamental, as the right of every American not to be financially shipwrecked when their health fails them. Add to that the biggest ever financial support package in America’s history, a major disarmament agreement and the quickest-ever re-establishment of American reputation.

O.K. , now lets get this right. Health care has not become law and it will leave 18 million Americans uninsured when it does. The “financial support package” is equal to twice the amount of money spent by Obama than all previous Presidents COMBINED. Call it what you will , we call it a disaster.

On the other hand, we have Jesus’ miracles that everyone still remembers, but which only benefited a few. At the same time, we have the wonderful parables about his life and deeds that we know from the New Testament, but which have been interpreted so differently over the past 2000 years that it is impossible to give an unequivocal result of his work.

Gees. 1.8 billion people living today believe in Jesus Christ. 6 million had accepted him in some way by the 100th anniversary of the Church. And human history is dated to his life, both before and after his death. What has Obama done, again??

Obama is, of course, greater than Jesus – if we have to play that absurd Christmas game. But it is probably more meaningful to insist that with today’s domestic triumph, that he has already assured himself a place in the history books – a space he has good chances of expanding considerably in coming years.

No wonder these people need help every time they have to fight a war !!

Without, however, ever attaining the heavens....

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Translated by Julian Isherwood

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