THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS: OBAMA AND JIM JONES: "YES WE CAN

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

OBAMA AND JIM JONES: "YES WE CAN - DRINK THE KOOL-AID!"

MANY HAVE ASKED IF OBAMA IS THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS, OF THE MAHDI, OF RFK, OR OF HITLER.

I'D LIKE TO THROW ANOTHER NAME INTO THE MIX: THE REVEREND JIM JONES.

MAYBE BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA JUNIOR IS A NATIONWIDE-SIZED VERSION OF JIM JONES?

WIKI: JIM JONES

[Jim Jones] ... claimed to be an incarnation of Jesus, Akhenaten, the Buddha, Lenin, and Father Divine and performed supposed miracle healings to attract new converts.

Members of Jones' church called him "Father" and believed their movement was the solution to the problems of society; many did not distinguish Jones from the movement.

... In the summer of 1977, Jones and most of the 900 members of the People's Temple moved to Guyana from San Francisco after an investigation into the church for tax evasion had begun. Jones named the closed settlement Jonestown after himself.

His intention was to create an agricultural utopia in the jungle, free from racism and based on socialist principles.

... which became synonymous with group suicide after the November 18, 1978 mass murder-suicide by poison in their isolated agricultural intentional community called Jonestown, located in Guyana.

Over 900 people died from cyanide poisoning or gunshot wounds in the aftermath of Jones ordering his men to kill visiting Congressman Leo Ryan and numerous members of his entourage.

JONES WAS AND OBAMA IS A CHARISMATIC LEADER INTENT ON BUILDING A UTOPIA UPON SOCIALIST PRINCIPLES - WHOSE FOLLOWERS DRINK KOOL-AID.