Multiple Obasms...

An "obasm", according to the web site urbandictionary.com is "The pleasure that a liberal-leaning journalist gets when writing a fawning story about U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL). A story so gushy and so fluffy, bereft of objectivity, that one imagines having to clean up after the writer with a mop and bucket". I will expand the definition to include remarks by Obama himself that might seem a teensy vain. Obasms are multiple and show no sign of flagging, but here are a few examples...

"I have to tell you, you know, it's part of reporting this case, this election, the feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama's speech. My, I felt this thrill going up my leg." [Chris Matthews on Hardball, February 12, 2008]

“I face this challenge with profound humility and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people…I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal…” [Barak Obama, June 3, 2008; Note - what would he say if he wasn't profoundly humble?]

"Many spiritually advanced people I know…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. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul…" [Mark Morford, SF Chronicle, June 6, 2008]

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), son of the one-time presidential contender, said Obama’s victory overwhelmed him. “I cried all night. I’m going to be crying for the next four years,” he said. “What Barack Obama has accomplished is the single most extraordinary event that has occurred in the 232 years of the nation’s political history. ... The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.” [via politico.com, June 7, 2008]

It's really a shame that I won't be writing after we leave Prague. I sense that the obasms are going to just keep on coming (no pun intended). The Democratic convention should be something to behold.