Now that President Obama has his health care victory, can we say that the global media been too quick to pronounce President Obama a messiah, and then dead, and then resurrected? Continuing with Worldmeets.US’ coverage of the global reaction to U.S. health reform, Brazilian columnist Clovis Rossi writes that while he is convinced that time in the modern world is speeding up – the case of Barack Obama is ridiculous!
For Folha, Clovis Rossi writes in part:
I have written a few times in the pages of Folha about the acceleration of time, which is one of the great characteristics of the contemporary era. But I’m frankly beginning to doubt if time is actually accelerating, or if journalism has adopted the “fast food” model – fast to manufacture and eat. The most recent case centers on Barack Obama. Just a year and two months ago, he took over like a new kind of messiah, a man who had come to make this thing called “change,” whatever that meant.
In fact, Obama began full steam ahead, launching initiatives here and there, both domestic and foreign. Before long, his prestige began to drop, down, down, down, until earlier this year he lost the election to fill the open Massachusetts Senate seat made vacant by the death of Ted Kennedy. That was it. That was enough for Obama to be pronounced dead and buried, and for extreme-right and extremely reactionary movements like the “Tea Party” to pop up.
Not even two months have passed and the House of Representatives has approved Obama’s health care plan. There it is. In a more or less agreed-upon analysis, Obama has been resurrected.
In other words, in one year and two months, the president of the United States went from glory to the tomb and from there directly into the heavens.
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