Then Obama divided the five loaves and two fishes

ABC’s Jack Tapper has a hilarious blog post about the messianism of the Obama campaign.

I add to it, related to Kevin Drum’s post about Senate GOP uncooperativeness on a revised economic stimulus package:

Then Obama took the five loaves and two fishes, and divided them among the crowd, and there was enough stimulus for everybody. When everybody had eaten, Obama’s disciples gathered the remains, and there were five basketfuls of stimulus left.

As for dealing with those intransigent Republicans:

A disciple asked Obama how many times he must forgive a change-resistant Republican, and continue to bipartisanly cooperate

“Is seven times enough?” the disciple asked.

“Nay, you must forgive, and cooperate, seventy times seven times,” Obama said.

No, it’s not the nuttery of Ron Paul; nonetheless, it seems more and more clear that Obama’s campaign is becoming more and more about “change” and less and less about specifics, and that, in a clear example of mass psychology of herds/mobs/crowds, people are signing on in a frenzy of style not substance.

And, one might say the words of Obama, rather than being a miraculously-sustained five loaves and two fishes, are instead like Chinese food: tasty and stimulating, but digested with a once-again-empty stomach an hour later.