Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Time Mag: Obama a 'Prince' Like Jesus Born of 'Imagination, History and Hope'


This week's Weekly Standard magazine recited “some of the worst over-the-top reactions to The One's ascendance,” starting with Time's Nancy Gibbs who opened this week's cover story by comparing Obama with Jesus:


“Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope...”

She heralded the 'greater meaning' of Obama's victory and gushed over how

“an election in one of the world's oldest democracies looked like the kind they hold in brand-new ones, when citizens finally come out and dance, a purple-thumb day, a velvet revolution.”

[I would love to adopt the purple finger thing - it would put ACORN out of business]

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