{"id":1091,"date":"2008-11-15T10:37:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T14:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2008-11-15T10:37:03","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T14:37:03","slug":"quote-of-the-uh-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1091","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the&#8230; uh&#8230; century?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From CNN, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/11\/13\/poll.obama\/index.html?iref=newssearch\" target=\"_blank\">Poll finds great expectations for Obama<\/a><\/em>,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">&#8220;My fervent prayer is that there will be peace on Earth in all nations, and let all countries unite together to make this dream come true,&#8221; said iReporter Shari Atukorala of Kandy, Sri Lanka. &#8220;To the President-elect Barack Obama: Sir, you can do this for all of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Utterly amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Is this perception of Obama common? Maybe so. Also from the CNN article,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">The public thinks it&#8217;s likely that Obama will improve race relations, improve economic conditions, bring stability to the financial markets, make the U.S. safer from terrorism, reduce the country&#8217;s dependence on foreign oil, reduce global warming, win the war in Afghanistan and remove U.S. troops from Iraq without causing a major upheaval in that country.<\/p>\n<p>How much of this adoration, do you think, has gone (and will go) to Obama&#8217;s head? At what point does <em>admiration<\/em> for one&#8217;s leader turn into <em>adoration<\/em>, albeit <strong>worship<\/strong>, of one&#8217;s leader?<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, reality may rear its ugly head and simply educate the many ignorant, but sincere, idealists who have put their faith in Obama; on the other hand, the cult of worship, is an enticing temptation, which strokes at the very essence of the narcissist&#8217;s ego.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christians: pray for Obama<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNN, Poll finds great expectations for Obama, &#8220;My fervent prayer is that there will be peace on Earth in all nations, and let all countries unite together to make this dream come true,&#8221; said iReporter Shari Atukorala of Kandy, Sri Lanka. &#8220;To the President-elect Barack Obama: Sir, you can do this for all of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,59],"tags":[80,183,184,185,186],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-rusty","tag-obama","tag-pray-for-obama","tag-savior","tag-unite-nations","tag-world-peace"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}