EMFK

Author: Peter Hitchens
Link: Daily Mail (UK) - Read Full Article
Date Published: November 8th, 2008
Excerpt:

Anyone would think we had just elected a hip, skinny and youthful replacement for God, with a plan to modernise Heaven and Hell – or that at the very least John Lennon had come back from the dead.



The swooning frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama as President of the United States must be one of the most absurd waves of self-deception and swirling fantasy ever to sweep through an advanced civilisation. At least Mandela-worship – its nearest equivalent – is focused on a man who actually did something.


I really don’t see how the Obama devotees can ever in future mock the Moonies, the Scientologists or people who claim to have been abducted in flying saucers. This is a cult like the one which grew up around Princess Diana, bereft of reason and hostile to facts.

EMFK: Peter Hitchens is the brother of Christopher Hitchens. He’s an intelligent writer who is quite opposite of his brothers in many political ways. At least we know others around the world aren’t quite taken with Obama either. Luckily, he’s not going to be their President.