Obama’s FEET OF CLAY
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The phrase “Feet of Clay” comes from the Old Testament (Dan.2:31-32).
Don’t look now but Barack Obama’s FEET OF CLAY are showing. After month’s of fawning by most media and chanting if irrelevant German and Denver crowd rank and file voters are taking a careful look at the onetime Messiah designate candidate and seeing feet of clay.
I am struck how appropriate ‘feet of clay’ describes the fatal flaw or vulnerable point in the character of Barack Obama, and I can certainly not be confused with any Bible scholar.
What I do see is what other regular Americans see an Obama without his teleprompter and absurd Ionic columns made of flimsy Styrofoam less substantial than worthless, even dangerous noisy rhetoric from campaign fiction writers.
Americans are looking past an absurdly misplaced sense of political correctness and “white guilt” to find a leader who has walked-the-walk and not just talked-the-talk. There are storm clouds on every horizon as America sits in the eye of a global storm threatening not just it but civilization itself.
The phrase “Feet of Clay” comes from the Old Testament (Dan.2:31-32). The Hebrew captain Daniel interprets a dream for Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar (c 630-562 BC). The King had dreamed of a giant idol with golden head, silver arms and chest, brass thighs and body, and iron legs. Only the feet of this image, compounded of iron and potter’s clay, weren’t made wholly of metal.
Daniel told Nebuchadnezzar that the clay feet of the figure made it vulnerable, that it prophesized the breaking apart of his empire.
With appropriate apologies to my Rev. Uncle John and Robert Hendrickson, and his Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins.