newsbusters.org - 11/12/2008
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Warning its readers to “be prepared to gag,” the “Scrapbook” page of this week's Weekly Standard magazine recited “some of the worst over-the-top reactions to The One's ascendance,” starting with Time's Nancy Gibbs who opened this week's cover story by comparing Obama with Jesus: “Some princes ...
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Be Careful With That Imagery, Folks
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... we have seen throughout the campaign, now metastasized into worshipful prose. Keep trying to deify the man, and youll simply encourage religious believers to flip to the final book of the Bible. And that will be too bad, because this machine politician from one of the most politically corrupt places in America might be able to rise to the challenge of being an above average President if you dont load him down with expectations he cant meet and speculations he doesnt deserve. H/T NewsBusters
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