April 2nd 2009
Obama’s Arrival In London: The Second Coming?
W
e all know – oh, how we’ve been told! – how popular are new president is in Europe. Hallelujah! It’s great to be loved again. But maybe, like John (“The Beatles are more popular than Jesus”) Lennon, the Prez-O’s gotten just a tad too popular. The Times of London weighs in:
It says a lot about a man, how he makes his big entrance. A motorcade says brute power, as everyone stops to make way for The Leader and an arrival that no one can ignore. But a helicopter out of the night sky? An other-worldly presence coming down out of the starry heavens, bright lights cutting through the darkness as the divine presence comes down to earth?
That is how Barack Obama arrived in London last night, with a deafening chugga-chugga of helicopter engines as he landed by the US Ambassador’s residence in Regent’s Park. This is how the Second Coming will be, if the Lord chooses to make His appearance in a VH-3D helicopter fitted with anti-missile flares.
Wow. Makes you proud, doesn’t it? But do I detect more than a slight dose of that dry British humor there? Well, nevermind. The great gullible masses were still fooled:
Down below, a small crowd of the faithful craned their necks to get a better view. “Is that him? Is that him?” asked someone excitedly. A girl in the crowd took a photograph with her mobile phone: she wasn’t too sure, and at that distance a helicopter is just a helicopter, but you cannot be too careful.
No, one cannot. I mean, what if Jesus came back and you failed to get a photo?
Hat-tip: Jim
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