" a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany"

[Skip Intro]

"My job this morning is to be so persuasive...that a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany, and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Barack,"

Barack Obama

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9845595-7.html

?


a little scary?

[tabatha]

1. no a joke

[Skip Intro]

3. Doesn't sound like a joke.

[Hugabear]

33. Of course not, because you need a sense of humor to realize it's a joke

Because we all know that politicians never speak figuratively. Barack obviously thought that beams of light were going to come shooting across the audience.

Funny how you leave out the first part - about the persuasion bit.

[dchill]

45. !

:rofl:

[PA Democrat]

34. It is a joke based upon Clinton's joke about Obama's speeches

Clinton discussed a litany of challenges facing the country, ranging from home foreclosure to responsibly bring troops home from the Iraq war.

“None of the problems we face will be easily solved,” she said before delivering a fanciful description of an Obama speech.

“Now I could stand up here and say, ‘Let’s just get everybody together. Let’s get unified. The sky will open. The lights will come down. Celestial choirs will be singing and everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect.’



http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/02/clinton_raps_obamas_celestial.html

I heard him do this joke and it was quite funny. Sorry to disappoint you.

[Skip Intro]

38. except her quote comes a month after Obama's

who was joking?

[PA Democrat]

43. Nah, I'll bet that Hillary had been using that same line at earlier campaign appearances.

I hate to tell you this, but the candidates make pretty much the same stump speech at a lot of their appearances.

You are being silly. I heard him deliver this joke and there was no doubt to ANYONE who was there that it was anything but a joke.

[Tesha]

54. You don't want it to be a joke so, to you,it isn't.

To the rest of us, it was.

YMMV.

Tesha

[mamalone]

58. How??

how on earth could you *not* think this is a joke???


sheeesh...........

[Texas Hill Country]

68. it is obviously a joke

[izzybeans]

2. What? the picture? is the picture supposed to be scary or the joke?

[gcomeau]

4. Or...

...a sense of humor in action. Imagine that.

[havocmom]

15. Humor is lost on too many people around here

Deluded people get nasty when their delusions crumble before their eyes. Humor is the first causality.

[grantcart]

5. from January lol what did you think his job was convincing them to vote Clinton?

HANOVER, N.H.--Barack Obama may be leading the Democratic presidential pack in every major poll here, but that didn't dissuade the Illinois senator from a final early-morning rally with the Facebook generation.

Clearly not content to leave their votes to the whims of online politicking, the Illinois senator stepped onto a stage fashioned in a Dartmouth College gymnasium, pulled an index card from his inside jacket pocket, and launched into a familiar set of talking points centered on what has become a familiar theme for his campaign: change and hope.

"My job this morning is to be so persuasive...that a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany, and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Barack," he told a crowd of about 300 Ivy Leaguers--and, by the looks of it, a handful of locals who managed to gain access to what was supposed to be a students-only event.

[tabatha]

8. I think that is extremely creative....

I heard that when he said it, and thought it funny. It was light (pun intended) and humorous.

[PA Democrat]

40. Remember Hillary's joke about Obama's speeches?

She was trying to make fun of his oratory skills saying that the heavens would open, a beam of light would shine down, etc. I posted the actual Hillary quote and link up thread. I heard him do the same joke at a town hall meeting and I agree it was very funny. The crowd did too.

[Skip Intro]

13. Not quite, he's repeated this several times.

It wasn't a one-time thing.

Do you have a link for what you posted?

[tammywammy]

17. It's from the link you posted

[grantcart]

21. lol

[Forkboy]

22. LOL

This is getting pathetic around here. The death throes are embarrassing to see.

[tammywammy]

32. Well, I would have assumed she had read her own link

apparently not. LOL

[Skip Intro]

36. Actually, I linked to that site through another to verify the quote.

didn't read the entire article...

However, nothing in what was posted in that reply really added neither context nor new information.

Of course, I guess that's beside the point.

[Forkboy]

37. They see anything negative and they post it without thought.

There's a few Obama supporters who do the same thing, but the level of desperation on the Hillary side grows by the day. It would be scary if it wasn't so damn funny. :)

[roguevalley]

64. I agree, forkboy. this is getting so funny I don't think anyone can

see the humor of it quite well. Funny that people can't see the humor in a humor thread. :evilgrin:

[TheDoorbellRang]

30. !

:rofl:

[dchill]

46. O... M... F'in...G...

:rofl:
:puke:

[Bonobo]

6. The Programming Has Not Worked On This One! Find Him, Brothers!

What is it?

What is the power that this "Skip Intro" has that makes him so immune to our powers?

Grrrrrr!

[izzybeans]

11. Nevermind

got my threads mixed up, this shit has been posted so many times.

[patrice]

7. Ellipses are not insignificant. nt

[Boz]

9. Let me fix that headline for ya, The article is: Obama: NO WARRANTLESS WIRETAPS IF YOU ELECT ME

The ability to parse and decontextualize, a little scary?

[merh]

10. your link took me to an article from January entitled

Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me

Sounds good to me, no warrantless wiretaps is a good thing, yes?

So, where did you get what is in your OP?

:shrug:

[earthside]

12. Sad that you're so humorless.

Sheesh.

And you're going back to January 8 to make some kind of point?

On the other hand, the headline of the news report: "Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me" sounds pretty good.

[anigbrowl]

14. Well if you would just open your shades Skip, it will happen

Then you too can join us. We are borg, you know.

[AX10]

16. I remember when he said that.

This entire Obama-mania thing is bothersome.

[EFerrari]

35. That you people can't identify humor when it hits you over the head

is frightening.

[MethuenProgressive]

56. "you people"

...

[Hugabear]

59. Yes - "YOU PEOPLE"

Meaning, you Hillary supporters and Obama-bashers who think that Obama's speech in the OP was actually some cult-like speech and find the concept of a charismatic candidate frightening. It's not our fault that Hillary has no charisma of her own.

[roguevalley]

66. this is hysterical:

It's not our fault that Hillary has no charisma of her own.

[walldude]

18. So Hillary supporters start this Obama is a cult campaign thing

and run it into the ground and he makes a joke about the pathetic rantings of the "Obama is a cult" crowd, and you want to take him to task for it. What's scary is the tunnel vision you Hillary supporters seem to enjoy.


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[patrice]

19. Change one thing in this scenario; make it Clinton instead of Obama.

What would your reaction be?

[AZBlue]

20. Stop. STOP. It's a joke about your candidate's inane comments.

So pointing it out just reminds us once again what a ridiculous comment your candidate made.

[EFerrari]

29. And what a disgusting spectacle that was n/t

[nebula]

23. LOL!

definitely sig-worthy.

[Forkboy]

24. I've heard that if you play Slayer's Hell Awaits backwards you can hear his voice say "Join us".

:scared:

[Avalux]

25. Yeah, it's scary.

:silly:

[Skip Intro]

26. Wow, no one willing to take on the subliminal aspect of Obama's campaign.

Really?

Oh, he was just joking.


none so blind

[Forkboy]

....

[nebula]

28. None so blind

as yourself that is!

[EFerrari]

41. Actually, it was Clinton's suggestion, not his. Remember?

[EFerrari]

27. Scary to the humorless. That must be terrible.

ETA: It really must be terrible not to realize that Obama was riffing on that horrible embarrassing moment when Clinton made an @ss out of herself. She gave him this ammo on a silver platter.

[undeterred]

31. load of steaming crap

[Levgreee]

39. it was in front of a small crowd of 300, mostly ivy league students

and yes, it was a joke. Do you think he'd be trying to make a strong religious appeal to college students?

[Skip Intro]

42. yes, I do.

[Levgreee]

44. that explains why Obama is a successful public figure, and you'd get lots of silence and coughs

he understands what is appropriate for what audience.

[dchill]

48. Then YOU are the scary one.

No kidding.

[roguevalley]

67. oh god. humor. humor. repeat it. humor.

[dchill]

73. Are you talkin' to me?

I GET it. I am NOT Skip Intro. I repeat, I am NOT Skip Intro. I GET it. SEE:
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[nichomachus]

47. Molehills - mountains -- give it a rest

When you lose your sense of humor, you might as well just pack it in.

[rodeodance]

49. I lost my sense of humor with all the Hillary hate threads.

[TacticalPeek]

50. "This is bigger than Kennedy. . . . This is the New Testament." - Chris Matthews

"This is bigger than Kennedy. . . . This is the New Testament." | "I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often. No, seriously. It's a dramatic event."

-- Chris Matthews


"I'll do whatever he says to do. I'll collect paper cups off the ground to make his pathway clear."

-- Halle Berry


"A quantum leap in American consciousness"

-- Deepak Chopra


"Obama's finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don't even really inspire. They elevate. . . . He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh . . . Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves."

-- Ezra Klein


"We're here to evolve to a higher plane . . . he is an evolved leader . . . has an ear for eloquence and a Tongue dipped in the Unvarnished Truth."

-- Oprah Winfrey



Is Barack Obama the Messiah?
http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com



Nope.

[roguevalley]

69. There is a reasonable solution. Obama, Messiah? Is

Hillary the second coming? which is the true messiah? I think we should make them walk on water. whoever doesn't sink is president. FUCK THE PRIMARIES! GIVE 'EM THE WATER TEST!

seems clear to me. :P

[Manifestor_of_Light]

51. That's what the Christians told me.

They said that's what would happen if I made Jesus H. Christ my new best friend.

Didn't happen. Duh!!!

[Cali_Democrat]

52. Scary? I think its hilarious.

He's obviously mocking Clinton for mocking Obama's supporters.

[LadyVT]

53. He has a teensy little grandiosity problem.

[MethuenProgressive]

55. Jesus!

oh.. wait.. nevermind. Just Obama again.

[kevinmc]

57. From THIS IS HELL .... Sit in a lotus position......

Sit in a lotus position turn your palms to the sky picture and concentrate on a white dot in the middle of your forehead.......

and chant...
"EVERYBODY IS STUPID"

[DerekJ]

60. I wish a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany Skip Intro

You need it.

[JayFredMuggs]

61. A beam of light came down upon me, and it told me to

Skip reading skipintro's posts from now on and save me a lot of time.

Did anyone wonder where skipintro came up with a link from January 8 Yahoo??? and why???

Seems like skipintro is being coached by someone as to what links to use, or is three months behind in reading material.

Using an Obama joke as a threat? Pretty desperate.

[GoldieAZ49]

62. No to a "pastor in chief"

Obama's speeches are studded with religious rhetoric. For example, last October he told an audience of 4,000 that he hoped to be "an instrument of God" and that "I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth".



Americans don't need another POTUS that thinks he is an instrument of God. :puke:

[Life Long Dem]

63. Beam some light on Hillary!

Obama rally North Dakota April 08

[Texas Hill Country]

65. it sounds like a joke to me.

[chascarrillo]

70. Skip, you know, I'm sorry your candidate lost, but there is a time where you've gotta face facts.

[Perry Logan]

71. It would be so much easier if her opponents didn't lie through their teeth.

[chascarrillo]

72. Take cover!