Obamessiah

This is hilarious. Gerard Baker (one of the few pro-American conservatives left in England) of Times Online in London has written a brilliant piece parodying the messianic overtones of Obamania:

Here are a few excerpts:

And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.

In the great Battles of Caucus and Primary he smote the conniving Hillary, wife of the deposed King Bill the Priapic and their barbarian hordes of Working Class Whites.

Read the whole thing here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article4392846.ece

-- Enjoy the Weekend!