MESSIAH

c.1300, Messias, from L.L. Messias, from Gk. Messias, from Aramaic meshihamashiah "anointed" (of the Lord), from mashah "anoint."
This is the word rendered in Septuagint as Gk. Khristos (see Christ).
In O.T. prophetic writing, it was used of an expected deliverer of the Jewish nation.
The modern English form represents an attempt to make the word look more Heb., and dates from the Geneva Bible (1560). Transf. sense of "an expected liberator or savior of a captive people" is attested from 1666.



Just as I didn’t believe that George W. Bush was the anti-Christ (but the article an is apropos here), I don’t think that Barack Obama is a messiah---
Or
THE MESSIAH.

I did believe (naively) when I was much younger that President Reagan was one of the above.

America voted for---

Anointed, if you will---

Barack Obama to liberate a people who have been the captives of a very autocratic, arrogant, and meretricious Bush administration.

The election of Barack Obama was the denunication of a deceitful and inept administration.

The election of Barack Obama was an endorsement of the renunciation of eight years of woeful, wreckful, wretched, and divisive “leadership”.

When Barack Obama becomes President Barack Obama, it will probably be more difficult to write satire, but I will not give him or his administration any “free passes”.

Finally, although all of those popular polls have indicated that the Iraq war was not as big an issue as the economy, the American people had that unnecessary war on their fingertips when they voted, quite aware that this unnecessary war has had a considerable effect on the state of the American economy and the world..