Barack’s Visions Quell a Hopeless Heart with Hollow Promises

I imagine Barack’s visions of America’s future – have quelled the fear of a million hungry hearts – for now.

I have a question. Why did Barack choose to rest his passion-stirring Presidential Nomination Acceptance speech with an incomplete excerpt from Hebrews 10:23? Perhaps it was a good place to rest our innocent hopeful hearts.

Weary of denying the abyss of our Prosac-protected-hopelessness, aren’t we all just a little relieved to embrace Barack’s bold and audacious, if hollow, vision for our future?

His promises did it for me. The big easy surrender – like slinking down into the bathtub – I give in – for now – until the real deal comes along.

Big, bold, reasonable, and simple. But, can he deliver? But, do I, do we, does anyone know enough to evaluate whether or not he can deliver? Ah heck, let’s just enjoy the possibility, gamble on hope. Yeah, that’s what Barack inspires us to do. Just gamble on hollow hope.

I’m weary of buffered-hopelessness. I want to believe. Even for a day, or a few hours, or maybe all the way to November 4th. Let’s take a vacation into our hormone-reinforced youth, and believe in hope again. Relive the boomer dreams! But they are just dreams. Barack is like cotton-candy dreams that will make you sick if you take too much. But just for tonight. I’ll bask in his speech full of cotton-candy dreams wrapped around hollow promises.

Then there’s the grip of reality to overcome. Could things be better? How long will it take? Will it be like some cosmic consciousness? Will the whole world start believing in Barack’s vision? So many questions to explore. It’s unpopular to wake people when they’re dreaming. So for now, I’ll just float along – until the real hope becomes clear.

Which takes me back to my original question. Looking at the scripture he chose at the close of his speech, why did he not include the last six words of the verse he quoted?

Was he being politically astute or politically correct?

Politically correct is so not bold. Politically astute is so crafty-politician. What’s real about Barack’s relationship with or to God?  Is he a salesman who’s read the product spec sheet? Or does he know God – intimately. I suspect the former.

What do you think? Did Barack Obama end his speech by drawing out of context from Hebrews 10:23?

19Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. 23Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. 25Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

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