NYC Letter: Department Of Worship VIII

Day 139 of CHOPE

I saw God before me, because I saw this smile that a million people have seen around the world. I saw her (Michelle) radiant. ... It's idiotic, but it's like that.

Jacques Boudon,
restauranteur and proprietor of La Fontaine de Mars,
describing his experience serving the Obamas
PARIS June 7, 2009 (AP)

He gushes. He believes an American president is God. [Pause.] M. Boudon is French. The French, they worship Jerry Lewis also.

But how to explain the worship of the American press?

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 [Ronald Reagan's 40th D-Day Commemoration] – 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-

Chris Matthews:* Yeah.

He’s going to bring all different sides together.

Evan Thomas,
Newsweek editor, testifying on Hardball
June 5, 2009 (NewsBusters/MSNBC)

He's serious. And he is here speaking in his capacity as an editor for Newsweek, so we may assume that this is a framing editorial concept at Newsweek. Mr. Obama "is sort of God". [Long pause.] Reverence due. [Shorter pause.] That goes a way toward explaining this sort of thing.

CHOPE.

Not little gee. Big Gee. God.

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* Mr. Matthews, he of the "leg thrill", is also an unabashed Obama worshiper (and this).