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We’re only four days away from the anointing of the messiah. On Tuesday, Jan 20 Barack Obama will be sworn in as President of the United States. The mountains will crumble and the skies will open. A dove will descend on Obama’s head or perhaps on the Lincoln Bible that he will use to pledge his oath. If it were June or July our president-elect might even emerge from the Potomac River, symbolizing the nation’s washing away of the Bush Administration.

Well, maybe not.

Sure I am being facetious. Yet, even the most objective observer must confess that the adoration of Obama has reached dizzying heights, even redefining the term “cult of personality”. Think I am exaggerating:

$ After hearing that Obama was a Spider-Man fan growing up, Marvel Comics decided to devote an issue to the webbed super hero and the president-elect. Obama is featured on the cover giving Spidey a thumbs-up. Apparently the two even fist-bump in the issue.

$ Masonry, a society condemned by the Catholic Church, is holding an inaugural ball in honor of our president-elect. According to a press release announcing the event, on Jan 20 The William R. Singleton-Hope-Lebanon Lodge #7 of Washington D.C. will host the “first-ever Masonic Inaugural Ball in honor of President-elect, Barack Obama and Vice-President Elect Joseph Biden.” Considering that Freemasonry has existed in the U.S. since our nation’s inception, it is surprising that this is only D.C.’s first Masonic inaugural ball. (Incidentally, among the reasons the Catholic Church demands that its flock not join Freemasonry is that “theoretically and practically it undermines the Catholic and Christian faith, first in its members and through them in the rest of society, creating religious indifferentism and contempt for orthodoxy and ecclesiastical authority.”) http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09771a.htm

$ The Brooklyn Cyclones, a minor league baseball team that plays in Coney Island, will rename itself the “Baracklyn Cyclones” on June 23 to honor our president elect. The team will dress in a red, white, and blue uniform with the name Baracklyn Cyclones spread across the jersey. Fans who attend will receive an Obama bobble-head doll. What connection the president-elect has to Brooklyn to warrant this adulation is unknown . . . at least to me.

In truth, although I did not vote for Obama and I disagree with him intensely on certain issues, I feel sorry for him. With the expectations heaped upon him he cannot help but fail. The number of Americans, including those in the media, who expect him to lead us out of this “recession” is staggering. This global financial collapse has been brewing for decades and experts are as clueless as the average person as to the direction the world economy is headed. Yet, people still expect Obama to shepherd us to the promised land.

Our new president appears to be an intelligent man who will work diligently as president. In light of the executives he has selected for his administration, he seems to want a diverse group that reaches across the political spectrum. That is a welcome sign and we wish him well.

But let’s remember Psalm 145: 2-3:
“Put not your trust in princes: In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.”


Donald Tremblay