Obama: The Messiah made mortal in Massachusetts

It was like the second coming. Tens of thousands of people - often with tears of elation in their eyes - turned out to hear him offer his words of wisdom and visions of a brave new world via his autocue. Like a biblical wave of rapture, the masses chanted his name. Not just in the United States, but in nations around the globe.

And then reality kicked in. Long after the media stopped telling us about Obama's skin colour - as though we did not have eyes to see the obvious for ourselves and thus emphasising a difference that those of us without racial prejudice did not see - people started to see something different in the real Obama from the media induced Messiah.

For, away from his crowd-pleasing autocue, his policies just are not popular.

His domestic approval rating has plummeted faster than that of any other President.

Indeed, many might have concluded that Obama's apparent huge popularity was due to nothing more than him being anybody but George W. Bush.

Of course, Obama has continued George W. Bush's most unpopular policies. The Nobel Peace Prize winner is continuing his war in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay remains open for business.

Policy after policy threatens the American constitution, with attacks on free speech and the right to carry a firearm being particularly contentious. As in Britain, the U.S. has seen an onslaught of actions which put civil liberties high on the non-partisan opposition agenda.

With arrogance, there is a threat of Obama bypassing Congress to ram through legislation on 'climate change' - a threat that has now been countered with a Bill aimed at preventing him from doing so.

And the American people have now put their once Messiah-like mortal President on notice - listen to we, the people, they have demanded.

Yes, Scott Brown - the Republican candidate for Massachusetts - has won his race for the Senate against Democrat Martha Coakley.

Brown's victory will make it more difficult for Obama to ram through his most controversial policy plank of healthcare reform - dubbed derogatorily as 'Obamacare'.

Brown - the handsome all-American boy who once appeared naked for a Cosmo centrefold - is not without faults. His position on, for example, gay rights and equality has already been subject to scrutiny in left-leaning newspapers here in the UK.

But Brown - who proclaimed himself 'the 41st vote against healthcare' - has won the seat of Massachusetts, where the Republicans have not been able to win for over half a century.

Obama's belief that he could push through any legislation that he wished has been kept in check by the electorate and puts him on notice that, should he wish a second term in office, he may well have to start listening to the people.

The result is a warning to political leaders across the globe that nobody, nobody, is safe in a true democracy where people have a say.

'God bless America', as they say.

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The political implications of the Republican victory by Scott Brown will be raked over by political analysts - both in the U.S. and here in the UK - for hours, days... maybe even weeks.

But what are the implications for the British political class? That may well be one of the topics that you will see discussed in our media.

Of course, historians may well look to where this seismic political event took place - Massachusetts, the state in which Boston can be found.

They may also paw over the modern and growing 'Tea Party' movement which, as one of it's three guiding principles, vows to see that Government uphold the U.S. Constitution.

And it was in that context when researching the original tea riots of the American revolution that we found the following quote, attributed to a town crier in 1775:

"All true friends of their country, lovers of Freedom, and haters of shackles and hand-cuffs, are hereby invited to testify their good disposition, by bringing in and casting into the fire a needless herb, which for a long time has been detrimental to our liberty, interest, and health."

Anyone fancy taking a box of Typhoo, PG Tips or Tetley to Westminster?