Magical spell that will open a new American era

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/20/barack-obama-inauguration

Today a magic spell will be performed. A man who 12 weeks ago was a mere political candidate will be transformed with the incantation of a few words, before a vast crowd and a television audience in the hundreds of millions if not billions, into the head of state, even the embodiment, of the most powerful nation on earth.

It is an act of political alchemy that happens every time a new president is inaugurated, but rarely has the moment been as anticipated as this one. Washington DC, usually a city of strait-laced, sober-suited types has acquired the atmosphere of a child's bedroom in the first hours of Christmas morning. There are snow flurries outside, tacky decorations everywhere - and the resolve to wake up early, so as not to miss a moment of the great day.

The excitement is intense and has been building for days, increasing with each coachload of newcomers that arrives in the city. Women wear woolly hats against the cold, the word OBAMA spelled out in diamante letters. Street-hawkers sell T-shirts bearing Obama's face, alongside ever more grandiose slogans. One shows a beatific president-to-be under the quasi-biblical declaration: "And he shall be called Barack Obama."

The street merchandise, the nightly parties, the rare sighting of Hollywood A-listers among the policy wonks and thinktankers - that happens every four years. But no one would deny the extra fervour this time.

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Such are the paradoxes of a man who insists he is no magician - but who will stand today at the centre of something magical.

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1. It may be syntax

Spiritual and magical have different meanings with many people. Magical and especially the word sorcery is really bad in most religions. This type of framing, by using those words is bad for many reasons. Personally I always thought it is better thought of as 'better angels'

All of us have some spiritual stuff in our lives. Those little twists of serendipity that defy all logic and just makes us know someone is looking out for us from above.

My belief is.
He is not a magician, and actually I am pretty sure nobody is, however spiritual stuff can make it seem that way if a person wrongly gives credit to one of us people, instead of God. I think I am amazed at what I see from time to time. And do not have a clue how it happens, but that is the way I believe God works.