Owebama as Gnostic Know-It-All

James Taranto has a great column on the fact that despite changing from Messiah to Madman, Owebama believes he is still right & on the side of the er... angels? After explaining throw David Solway's PJMedia piece on Gnosticism that the Ideal Rules Obama's behavior [as it did Hitler's and Stalin's] through cleansing the impure lower nature we all possess:

This makes sense of the disconnect between Obama's largely uplifting 2008 campaign and his unrelentingly vicious 2012 one. Then, he presented himself as "the Ideal," the bringer of "hope and change" whose promise was "fundamentally transforming the United States of America."

What won him the election was that the voters were as "opposed to the actual" as he was. But they didn't want fundamental transformation, just peace and prosperity, which he has manifestly failed to deliver. This time around, he's still running as "the Ideal" opposed to "the actual," but he's lashing out and blaming others because he is constitutionally incapable of accepting responsibility for his own failures in office, which he may not even perceive as failures. What difference does it make if unemployment is the 5.2% his advisers promised or the 8.2% it actually is when you've got a country to fundamentally transform?

Yahoo! News's Walter Shapiro, picking up on the Mayer piece, writes:

Obama is unusual in politics . . . in his apparent refusal to be awed in the presence of billionaires. Unlike the Clintons and the Romney-Ryan ticket, Obama is not a devout believer in the gospel of wealth. As a Democratic fund-raiser, quoted in the Politico e-book [Glenn Thrush's "Obama's Last Stand"], says about the president, "He doesn't understand the rich. He's an intellectual elitist, not an economic one."

An "intellectual elitist"--one who believes that the route to salvation lies in knowledge. Shapiro concludes, however, that "the president's steadfast reluctance to schmooze-you-can-use with everyone else in politics may speak to a far deeper problem about using the full powers of the White House to govern."

There's a word to describe the "problem" to which Shapiro alludes: incompetence.

Read the entire article for a thoughtful exposition of the reason that Owebama will sink this country into a gigantic sinkhole of debt and despair.

Through his gnostic knowledge that HE IS THE ONE.