Finally, that nonsense is over with

J.R. Dunn, in The American Thinker, provides an interesting insight on Scott Brown's Senate victory in Massachusetts last week:

Brown didn't just overcome an unworthy, machine-produced opponent, or even provide the crucial vote to prevent the further socialization of the United States. He destroyed a legend -- the legend of Obama the Omnipotent.

The Obama of 2008 was a figure who came out of nowhere trailing clouds of glory. His followers hailed him as a new phenomenon, of a type unseen in America since JFK and perhaps not ever. He was hailed as superhuman, with more than a touch of the divine. Some openly called him a messiah. One of his media supporters stated for the record that Obama was a godlike entity.

Perhaps it seemed like that to some after his November victory. The stunned opposition among Republicans and conservatives were certainly tempted to view it that way. How else to explain the near-mad adulation, the absolute certainty, the pseudo-religious frenzy?...

As of this week, that is ended. Obama as Übermensch is a thing of the past. In a short time, commentators from all parts of the spectrum will be scratching their heads and wondering what it was all about.

While Obama was tarred from his support of losers in the Virginia and New Jersey contests, Massachusetts left him no choice. Too much was at stake. His signature effort, the takeover of the health-care system, depended on that single vote. So he was flushed out of the Oval Office at emergency speed to throw a lifeline to a swamped candidate. The tired, near-shabby figure who appeared in Boston last Sunday to mouth a pro forma endorsement that he obviously did not believe was not the Obama of last year. Not a godling, not a New Man, not a higher step in evolution, but a sad and overwhelmed individual who is having bad time of it and sees worse coming.

While Barack Obama was viewed by many of his supporters, particularly those in the formally-neutral news media, as some kind of messiah, an apostle of hope and change, a god-like figure worshipped within the secular religion of politics, it might be contended that he never viewed himself that way. But he certainly didn't discourage such worship.

So, now, it appears that Obama the messiah is going the way of all false gods: he's crashed back to earth.

The security of the nation depends upon the success of the president in protecting the nation. Our struggling economy and need for job growth dictates sober and realistic policies from the Administration. We should hope that President Obama experiences enough success to positively impact both our security and economic well-being. But good riddance to the myth of Obama the God-Like Figure.