Conservative Donnybrook

Via Dreher, I’d like to call attention to the blog that asks, “Is Barack Obama the Messiah?” It highlights to the media’s most loopily venerative prose, artwork, design, and photography regarding the good St. Obama. It’s frequently hilarious but always troubling. Samples follow:

The above is an unaltered photograph, and here’s a snippet from a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle:

Here’s where it gets gooey. Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment.

And his midichlorian levels are through the freakin’ roof! But how will these people react if Obama, you know… loses? One assumes that anti-McCain feeling couldn’t approach the ecstasies of Bush-hatred we’ve seen over the last eight years, but how would these Obama supporters feel about the guy who defeated the Messiah? Anyway, should I choose choose to support one of these two, which I won’t, the decision would be almost entirely based on schadenfreude: which candidate’s supporters’ election-day despair would bring me more pleasure: the latte-sipping, insufferable urban-hipster MacBook Pro-sporting Obama kool-aid drinkers? Or smug, cynical, Beltway Republican hack McCain supporters? Right now, it’s too close to call.