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The god Who Makes Sure We Know He is There

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  February 7th, 2010 at 09:09 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Football. It’s not just America’s past time, it is an escape from the monotony of daily life, from politics, and from life’s little encumbering affairs that bog us down.

But Barack Obama will have none of it.

Like last year, this year Barack Obama made sure to disrupt the pre-game show with an interview just to make sure we all knew, if we didn’t pay attention to any of the other press conferences he has had in the past week, that he is there.

It is a bit funny. The real God is a more active, yet more invisible, presence in all of our lives, from the beating of our hearts, to the rain that wets the soil, but he does not feel the need to do press conferences every other day to make sure we know he is still in charge?

What is it with Obama that compels him to get in our faces at the times we most want to escape politics — regardless of party — to have an interview with Katie Couric. Perhaps they, both pro-abortion advocates, felt the need to subtly balance out Pam Tebow.

In the secular world, the government takes the place of God — standing in for social services in place of the church, standing in for worship in place of fixation on a deity, etc. In the third world, the Dear Leader also makes sure to put his face everywhere so all can venerate him everywhere.

Thus we become a third world nation.

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  • Finrod

    The officially-listed start time was 6:25pm, for the record. I’ve even watched the whole game, and since they actually had a decent act lined up for the halftime show (The Who, who didn’t spend any time talking to the audience, just doing what they do best, play rock & roll/maximum R&B), I even watched that for the first time I can remember.

    But I gave a total miss to all the pre-game stuff.

  • mbecker908

    Well said Erick, well said. And that is exactly what is at stake.

  • http://twitter.com/mitrebox mitrebox

    with a simple pregame message to both teams congratulating their achievements, but I don’t see the point of CBS doing a presidential interview absent of a News broadcast. Seems like a Obama/Couric grab to get some shine off the superbowl. I expect it from CSI and How I Met Your Mother, but not the leader of the free world.

  • ModRocker86

    First the CBS cameras cut to him in the stands. Then they cut back to the stands when Biden showed up to join him. Then the announcers kept talking about the fact he was there as the cameras kept cutting to him at every commercial. And *then* he joined Vern Lundquist and Clark Kellogg in the broadcast booth. Nevermind the fact that this is a basketball game between Duke and Georgetown, Obama is here!

    Presidents have always showed up at sports games since Taft first fell in love with pro baseball. But Obama cannot just show-up to a sporting event and passively watch it the way previous presidents have; he has to try to make it all about him.

  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    nt

  • http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

    we will be assimilated?

  • redneck_hippie

    Was going to say iconoclasts, but if the O fits…

  • rick554

    And I made a point to avoid watching Teleprompter Jesus too. For me the game starts at the National Anthem, Barry is simply blather to me!
    WHO DAT!!!
    Oh, to be in New Orleans tonight!!

  • techsan

    It really is a theme with him.

  • Repair_Man_Jack

    Manning ran pretty well – when you consider who’s endorsement he had!

  • http://conservativestateproject.blogspot.com/ SE-779

    Now that shows that the big guy really does have a sense of humor!

  • Raven

    Continuing a more than 10 year streak, the Super Bowl halftime show sucked.

    The Who looked, moved and Sounded old. REALLY old. They should have retired.

    Some of the commercials were good, though. I particularly loved “Punxsatawney Polomalu” and Hyundai’s broadside on Favre and the Doritoes dog.

  • gumbyandpokey

    and do the televised face-off with Obama on health care. They stunk it up last time and there is no way Obama would be pressing to do it again if he hadn’t come out the winner previously. Call it out for the desperate gimmick that it is.

  • Raven

    And their behaviour earlier in the season,
    I think any footage would be unairable on tv…

  • Raven

    Obama’s Administration was Again saying it wouldn’t happen if they just keep increasing the deficit.

  • lorig77

    We felt exactly the same way. As if the man isn’t having non-stop infomercials posed as interviews or something else every other day of the year. It was gross. But I guess we should be getting used to it by now.

  • Raven

    The Saints deserved the win. Colts played very conservatively and the Saints went balls to the wall and gambled at every turn. And it paid off.

  • lorig77
  • CSUFBomb

    …but those old-timers weren’t talkin’ about *my* generation.

  • larryp

    to first have Obama at a meeting to cut corp taxes, Gap gainsto zero, cross state purchase of health care and returning all the money to the treasury.And tort reform.
    also Obama being on tv endlessly reminds me of
    Fahrenheit 451 where Dear Leader is on the wall sized tv all day and night.
    and every so often the face enlarges and says “Montag, what do YOU
    think,,,,

  • http://www.clinefamily.us pcnnc

    I usually have to take Pepto Bismal (you know, the pink stuff for us older folks) AFTER the game. But this year… I didn’t even make it through the pregame.

  • Bobcat51

    The piper calls and the wets will go and be snared in his socialist PR trap. 0bama playing them for fools they are if they attend.I Hope they can see that they are being used !

    0bama clutching at straws and endeavoring to save his sorry backside after the debacle of 2009. Will the Republican RINO’S open an already shut door for the 44% approval rated failiure? No wonder the Tea Party movement is growing in stature; you cannot trust any of the already elected fools of both parties.. !

    .

  • http://pocketchangeproductions.net/ anotherindyfilmguy

    what the fall from such a height will be and how many will suffer for his arrogance.

  • http://uslibertyjournal.blogspot.com/ daezy

    Dear Leader needs to be in our face 24/7, and his insecurity shows more and more with each passing day.

    One would hope we could have a moment off, but not if he has anything to say about it. He and Couric make an interesting pair.

  • gemimail

    About 60 House seats and perhaps as many as 12 more Senate seats if he keeps it up. Anybody but a self absorbed fool can see what his agenda is doing to his party. Let’s see how well he reacts to losing control of both houses of Congress.

  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    to tell Oteleprompter to take a hike on his offer.

    The House leadership blew it on their invitation to have Oteleprompter join them on camera at their Baltimore retreat. Oteleprompter insisted that they could only ask single questions and then he’d answer, with no chance for follow-up questions or dialogue. When those demands were made, they should have told him to take a hike and then made those demands public. That’s what someone who knows how to play hard ball politics would have done, but, alas, Boehner and Cantor, et al., just can’t seem to figure out these kinds of strategic moves. Or they can, but they always can’t seem to muster the backbone to carry them out.

    I expect the worst. Our Republican leaders will cave and accept Oteleprompter’s invitation and demands. I hope I’m wrong.

    Jon Kyl explained to me, face-to-face, in front of the Arizona Republican Lawyers Assn., in response to my question of “where was the strategy to use every Senate Standing Rule to slow down the Debtorcrats’ legislation, including hell-th care deform,” that they had somehow come up with a fantastic strategy to really score points with the American people by forcing a vote after the Christmas recess on the increase of the debt ceiling. Yawn.

    85 per cent of the American people are happy with their health care. Over 65 per cent DO NOT WANT Otelepromptercare. But our Republican “leaders” just can’t seem to figure out that they need to FIGHT Otelepromptercare and that they’d reap HUGE benefits at the ballot box in 2010 if they’d KILL this socialized medicine bill that would KILL PEOPLE.

    Thank you.
    ColdWarrior
    No More Scozzafavas!
    Become a Republican precinct committeeman NOW to change the Party from within!

  • poygankid

    I was greatful to have the NFL network to switch over to while ‘his worship’ was performing another yawner with the overpaid bimbo on CBS. It’s get so you can’t even watch football in piece. This fiasco by CBS is only surpassed by the ‘green’ Sunday Night Football on NBC.

  • Finrod

    .

  • nessa
  • JadedByPolitics

    sure he was just “investigating” pedophila isn’t that what everyone who is NOT an investigator does?

    “Townshend, possibly to his own detriment, exhibits in this article a wide range of knowledge on this subject.

    “This issue came to my attention when in 1997 a man who had briefly worked for me was arrested in the U.K. for downloading pedophilic pornography. Until then I was unaware of the scale of the problem. I was cautious of openly condemning him until he had been tried. He had performed in one of my musicals and was a popular figure in the soft-pop pantomime of the U.K. music scene. When he went to trial, the buzzword that the newspapers kept reprinting — that he had allegedly used in his regular Internet searches ? was ‘lolita.’”

    BTW I turned off the TV during halftime because I don’t support those who are FREAKS!

  • Rich Tandler

    I have to wonder if BHO will do an issues-oriented interview with Shep Smith during the pregame for a Super Bowl carried by FOX. More than likely he would insist that Terry Bradshaw conduct the interview or limit the questions to fluff.

  • bass_man

    at least they didn’t lip sync their act.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    By law we can’t default.

  • dogcatcher1

    . . . strikes top dead center on the little President. He is a small god, so small that he has to make sure that we know he is there.

    The commentary is correct in all respects, especially in the assessment that the presser was done as a subtle attempt to counter the Tebow ad.

    Never underestimate a narcissist with a gargantuan ego. He has told us in MANY ways who and what he is. The first real clue: “We are what we have been waiting for,” Remember?

  • rightwingmom52

    that Obama is a pagan (one who has little or no religion and who delights in sensual pleasures and material goods: an irreligious or hedonistic person). Thankfully, I had DVR’d the pre-game show and was able to fast forward through the interview. Anyone want to bet that BHO watches his own interviews just so he can worship himself? Hopefully, he’ll never become an SEC fan. I just can’t stand the thought of him invading yet another aspect of my life.

    I thought most of the Super Bowl ads were lame and all the controversy over the Tebow ad turned out to be much ado about nothing. While I appreciate and support the life-affirming message, if I’d spent $2.5 million on that ad, I’d want my money back.

  • leehazel

    Anyone who thinks that God has no sense of humor has not been paying attention to what is going on on our eastern seaboard.

    It is hilarious to think of all of our Political Class running around up to just below their beltline (you get the picture) in snow.

    God looks down with a chuckle, “how that Climate Change working for you now cupcake.

    PC is Thought Control
    LEE

  • Raven

    Plenty of new Country singers and bands that are better.

    Though I’d REALLY love to see George Strait and/or Brad Paisley do a Super Bowl.
    Now THAT would sell tickets all on its own.

  • Raven

    That anyone actually watches the pregame show…

  • nwick

    The thought the Tebow ad was fantastic. They let Planned Parenthood, NORAL and NOW do all the work. Look at all the publicity. Focus on the Family got a lot of bang for thier buck.

  • Wing Zero

    I’ve been to Honduras and Venezuela, and Obama’s campaign was just eerily similar to those of third world countries. I was in Venezuela before Chaves was elected. Simple slogans, Chaves’ face everywhere, the promise of “change.”

    I don’t mean to be an alarmist, but it wouldn’t surprise me if some “national emergency” caused mid-term elections to be suspended.

    I hope to God I’m just being crazy and wrong.

  • the_bat

    It was a case where the sum of the annoying parts was greater than the whole.

    Or something like that.

    ^o^