"We see a revolutionary who is being assassinated in character and perhaps in body as well."

Obama a revolutionary? In what way? Because one of his parents is black?

He's just another charlatan in the pocket of big business. He is succeeding in a political system where the prerequisite for success is the fact only the rich and influential can ever be a part of it.

To compare Obama to Christ is utterly risible, as is the idea he will challenge the corporate world - that revolution needs to come from the people rather than one man and there isn't a stomach for that in the US - everyone starts whinging when they are told their SUV's are screwing up the planet.

The Roman Empire is an apt analogy however, and it ended with the barbarians overrunning a feeble, squabbling state which had lost it's way a long, long time before it met it's end at the hands of the people it spent so long pissing on.