“President” Obama’s demise?

There’s a catch-phrase here in the Bible belt used by preachers of the so-called gospel of health and wealth: “Name it and claim it!” A fellow Christian who’s a car salesman (yes, there is such a thing as an honest, Christian car salesman) told me about one local woman who apparently was taking such a preacher at his word. She showed up on his car lot one morning, sat herself down behind the wheel of a new car and informed him that “God has given me this car.” She confidently sat there all day, waiting for God to show up with the cash. Alas, neither God nor His money arrived by closing time and the woman was forced to abandon her claimed prize. Methinks that amongst his other strange doctrines of Black Liberation, that perhaps the now-supposedly-retired Rev. Jeremiah Wright is also a proclaimer of the so-called health and wealth gospel.

I say that because Barack (Don’t call me “Hussein” even though that is my middle name, just call me “President”) Obama, who absorbed the strange doctrines of Wright’s preaching for 20 years, has obviously already named and claimed the title of President of the United States. One campaign flack even disclosed Obama is already making plans for the “transition” from candidate to occupant of the Oval Office.

John Tabin at American Spectator writes in Barack Hubris Obama:

McCain's surrogates have to be reminded that there's still an election on, as a senior Obama foreign policy adviser had to be after asserting that "When the president of the United States goes and gives a speech [overseas], it is not a political speech or a political rally."

"But he is not president of the United States," a reporter noted.

Maybe not, but he sure acts like he is. Obama has already ordered his staff to put together his transition team to prepare for his move into the White House.

William Kristol reports a German editor, following Obama’s triumphal speech in Berlin in front of the Victory Column, has declared victory in the Presidential election by referring to the candidate as President No. 44. The huge majority of the mainstream media in the U.S. has also already made the same leap of faith.

Carl Cannon writes that "having a candidate travel abroad as the presumptive President-elect before he's been formally nominated is a strange new wrinkle" in presidential campaigns.

Candidate John McCain recognized Obama’s presumptuousness in Berlin with a campaign statement:

“While Barack Obama took a premature victory lap today in the heart of Berlin, proclaiming himself a ‘citizen of the world,’ John McCain continued to make his case to the American citizens who will decide this election. Barack Obama offered eloquent praise for this country, but the contrast is clear. John McCain has dedicated his life to serving, improving and protecting America. Barack Obama spent an afternoon talking about it.”

Jennifer Rubin of Pajamas Media adds another sign of the presidential wannabe’s blind ego:

Obama’s mega-gaffe in snubbing the wounded troops in Germany (with the excuse he wouldn’t want to use campaign funds for such a visit) left even the MSM scratching their heads. There could be no more perfect example of the argument McCain has been making: this is a callow man whose ego blinds him to the sacrifice of military service. Coming on the heels of news that Obama is already planning his White House transition, it seemed to put new emphasis on the question the McCain camp has been implicitly asking, “Who does he think he is?”

J.R. Dunn at American Thinker describes the “too presumptuous” campaign of “President Obama” with The Operative Term is 'Hubris' and boldly predicts his blind ego will eventually lead to his demise. I can only hope…

He has a seat on his campaign aircraft marked "president". He has taken a shot at creating his own presidential seal, complete with Latin motto. He has laid claim to personal control over the world's oceans and seas. He has repeatedly attempted to dictate how and on what level he, his ideas, and his activities may be discussed. He has encouraged a portrayal of himself as a messianic figure, including a portrait of himself as Christ, complete with halo. He is even now completing a triumphant grand tour of the old world, during which he attempted to shanghai an ancient monument for personal use without consulting the host government.

…Obama continues his charade, awarding himself foreign triumphs, posing as a figure of world-historical stature, as if the election, perhaps even the inauguration, were merely a ritual. In his own mind, Obama is already president, behaving as he believes a president should, while the voters look on in bewilderment and growing disquiet.

…Obama is too proud and too blind. He will continue in his solipsistic dance until the machinery of fate intervenes. What form it will take is impossible to say. These situations build up grain by grain until a critical mass is at last reached. Obama is piling up those grains daily, with each display of aloofness, refusal to obey established protocol, and assumption of powers that do not yet belong to him. The final straw could be the most trivial of incidents, blown up all out of proportion to its importance simply due to its being the end of a series (recall one recent political powerhouse whose destruction was encompassed by a complaint over his seat on an airplane - an airplane he shouldn't have been aboard in the first place).

What we can be sure of is that Obama will not avoid the final reckoning. The last, and strangest, characteristic of the victim of hubris is that he appears to welcome his fate, almost embracing it, cooperating in his own downfall. So it will be with Barack Obama. But he must not be allowed to take the country with him.

Amen, Brother Dunn, preach on.