Critiquing "Obamamania"

[CGP]

An excellent (and ever growing) collection of articles highlighting the potentially destructive consequences of Obama fantacism.

This serves as reassuring reading for all of those who haven’t fallen victim to the Obama spell - you're not crazy after all!

For those still under the Obama spell - reading these articles may just provide you with enough of a jolt to bring you back to REALITY!


Deconstructing Obamamania!


(Last Update: Feb 19, 2008)


"Cult of Obama will Turn Off Independent Voters"
Date: Feb 19, 2008
Read: Real Clear Politics (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/02/vaporous_obama_turns_off_many.html)


"Obama's Got All Sides Screaming"
Date: Feb 18, 2008
Read: NY Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/02/18/2008-02-18_obama_manias_got_all_sides_screaming.html)


"The Obama Mystery"
Date: Feb 17, 2008
Read: The Washtington Post (http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=212)


"The Charisma Mandate"
Date: Feb 17, 2008
Read: NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/weekinreview/17zernike.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&hp&oref=slogin)


"Obama Sells Same Old Stuff"
Date: Feb 16, 2008
Read: National Post (http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=b3a087a1-90f2-423e-9840-5870e7b0034d&k=32911&p=1)


"I'm Immune to the Obama Swoon"
Date: Feb 15, 2008
Read: Philiadelphia Daily News (http://www.philly.com/dailynews/opinion/20080215_Christine_M__Flowers__IM_IMMUNE_TO_THE_OB AMA_SWOON.html)


"The Audacity of Hype"
Date: Feb 15, 2008
Read: Boston Herald (http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view.bg?articleid=1073655)


"The Death of an Obasm"
Date: Feb 15, 2008
Read: Red State (http://www.redstate.com/blogs/czs/2008/feb/15/the_death_of_an_obasm)


"The Audacity of Selling Hipe"
Date: Feb 15, 2008
Read: Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/14/AR2008021403105.html?nav=hcmodule)


"Obama casts his spell"
Date: Feb 15, 2008
Read: Real Clear Politics (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/02/obama_casts_his_spell.html)


"Can Obama Become Too Hip For His Own Good?"
Date: Feb 15, 2008
Read: Slate Magazine (http://www.slate.com/id/2184611/)


"A Cautionary Tale"
Date: Feb 13, 2008
Read: The CJ Political Report (http://www.thecjpoliticalreport.com/deval_patrick_a_cautionary_tale.htm)


"Battle-Tested"
Date: Feb 13, 2008
Read: Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-wilson/battletested_b_86355.html)


"Obama's Cult of Personality"
Date: Feb 12, 2008
Read: Jim Rose (http://www.jim-rose.com/2008/02/obamas-cult-of-personality.html)


"The Obama Cult - Both Ugly & Beautiful"
Date: Feb 11, 2008
Read: Hamptom Roads (http://hamptonroads.com/2008/02/obama-cult-both-ugly-and-beautiful)


“Obama’s Politics of Collective Redemption”
Date: Feb 11, 2008
Read: American Thinker (http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/obamas_politics_of_collective.html)


"Hate Springs Eternal"
Date: Feb 11, 2008
Read: NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/opinion/11krugman.html?_r=3&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin)


"Wanna Join a Creepy Political Cult??"
Date: Feb 9, 2008
Read: Davodd (http://www.davodd.com/2008/wanna-join-a-creepy-political-cult)


“Obama’s First Coming”
Date: Feb 9, 2008
Read: The Australian (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23182456-28737,00.html)


“He’s Got Obamaphilia”
Date: Feb 8, 2008
Read: LA Times (ttp://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-stein8feb08,0,1554841.column)


"The Obama Cult"
Date: Feb 8, 2008
Read: Illinois Review (http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/02/the-cult-of-oba.html)


“And Obama Wept”
Date: Feb 7, 2008
Read: ABC Political Punch Blog (http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/02/and-obama-wept.html)


“Inspiration v Substance”
Date: Feb 7, 2008
Read: Time (http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1710721,00.html)


"Obama Excitement = Cult"
Date: Feb 7, 2008
Read: Crooks and Liars (http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/02/07/and-so-it-beginsobama-excitementcult/)


"Obama: Cult, Evangelicalism or Political Campaign"
Date: Feb 7, 2008
Read: Talk Left (http://ww.talkleft.com/story/2008/2/7/112248/5633)


“Barack Obama is Not Jesus”
Date: Feb 5, 2008
Read: Talking Points Memo (http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/05/barack_obama_is_not_jesus/#more)


“Name One Accomplishment by Obama”
Date: Feb 4, 2008
Read: YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzFOOcEQtP0)


“Dangerous Demagoguery”
Date: Jan 22, 2008
Read: Jewish World Review (http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell012208.php3)


“Barack Obama: The Mania & The Mirage”
Date: Jan 19, 2008
Read: Counterpunch (http://www.counterpunch.org/ford01192007.html)


"The Audacity of Obama's Speech Writers"
Date: Jan 10, 2008
Read: NY Mag (http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/01/the_audacity_of_obamas_speech.html)

"Obama is intangible, elastic, hollow"
Date: Jan 8, 2008
Read: Spiegel Germany (http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,527300,00.html)


“Obama’s Cocky Messianism”
Date: Jan 6, 2008
Read: Slate Magazine (http://slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/archive/2008/01/06/obama-s-cocky-messianism.aspx)


"The Obama Illuison"
Date: Feb, 2007
Read: Z Magazine Online (http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Feb2007/street0207.html)


“The Obama Messiah Watch”
Date: Jan 29, 2007
Read: Slate Magazine (http://www.slate.com/id/2158578/)


"Barack Obama is No Great Political Hope"
Date: Oct 25, 2006
Read: Irene Monroe (http://www.irenemonroe.com/2006/10/25/barack-obama-is-no-great-political-hope/)


"Obama's Cult of Personality"
Date: Oct 23, 2006
Read: Chicago Flame (http://media.www.chicagoflame.com/media/storage/paper519/news/2006/10/23/Opinions/Obamas.Cult.Of.Personality-2382754.shtml)


"The Mystery of the Obama Cult"
Date: Jan 31, 2006
Read: American Thinker (http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2006/01/the_mystery_of_the_obama_cult.html)

[joeysky18]

Thank for these good documents.

[CGP]

Thank for these good documents.

You are welcome. The more people who get to read them, the better!

[pennylane8510]

Those are great. I sent a few of them via e-mail to some friends. Thanks!

[CGP]

Those are great. I sent a few of them via e-mail to some friends. Thanks!

The more people who are exposed to the truth, the better. People need to be educated about the facts. The Obama campaign has sailed through on deception and psychological manipulation selling people a fantasy product that intoxicated willing victims!

HILLARY will prevail with her strong grasp on REALITY!

[BooskerD]

Thanks for these articles...I don't feel so crazy now.

[CGP]

Thanks for these articles...I don't feel so crazy now.

Precisely!

[RAFREE]

I think this use of young voters to turn them into Obamabots is disgusting.

All over the net they copy and paste the same responses to important questions...they've got that "Here's Obama's votes, Here's Hillary's" post everywhere! The exact SAME words!!

And they are all so truncated, so full of lies of omission. There's no open discussion in that camp at all.

This is the worst I've ever seen rhetoric in any election. It's not even rhetoric anymore but, dangerous propaganda!! I sure hope we all work hard this weekend and all day Monday too. This upcoming primary is OURS but, we have to TAKE IT from him!!

[CGP]

I think this use of young voters to turn them into Obamabots is disgusting.

All over the net they copy and paste the same responses to important questions...they've got that "Here's Obama's votes, Here's Hillary's" post everywhere! The exact SAME words!!

And they are all so truncated, so full of lies of omission. There's no open discussion in that camp at all.

This is the worst I've ever seen rhetoric in any election. It's not even rhetoric anymore but, dangerous propaganda!! I sure hope we all work hard this weekend and all day Monday too. This upcoming primary is OURS but, we have to TAKE IT from him!!

Agree on all accounts.

There is one particular passage that I have seen a billion times - it's a highly misrepresenative piece that hompelessly tries to "compare" the legislative records of Obama and Clinton. Unfortunate reality is though that it is an erroneous comparison which does not compare them on the same dimensions. Everytime I see it I get irritated because it's such trite and ridiculous propaganda. I will find it and post a copy which I am sure you will all have seen as it appears everywhere - cut and pasted like a virus infecting all parts of the Internet! I even received it on email the other day...

Obama has used young people in the same way he has used African-American people, "anti-war" people, fans of Oprah, and now he's even shamelessly moving on to LGBT people. His agenda to deceive and convert has no bounds it seems! His biggest problem? People who have critical minds and who THINK and who ASK QUESTIONS and who DO NOT FOLLOW BLINDLY. Any person who falls into this latter category must surely be able to see that Obama is nothing that he claims to be.

[RAFREE]

Agree on all accounts.

There is one particular passage that I have seen a billion times - it's a highly misrepresenative piece that hompelessly tries to "compare" the legislative records of Obama and Clinton. Unfortunate reality is though that it is an erroneous comparison which does not compare them on the same dimensions. Everytime I see it I get irritated because it's such trite and ridiculous propaganda. I will find it and post a copy which I am sure you will all have seen as it appears everywhere - cut and pasted like a virus infecting all parts of the Internet! I even received it on email the other day...

Obama has used young people in the same way he has used African-American people, "anti-war" people, fans of Oprah, and now he's even shamelessly moving on to LGBT people. His agenda to deceive and convert has no bounds it seems! His biggest problem? People who have critical minds and who THINK and who ASK QUESTIONS and who DO NOT FOLLOW BLINDLY. Any person who falls into this latter category must surely be able to see that Obama is nothing that he claims to be.

Everytime I see it I get offended!! I was there, I SAW what she did in Little Rock so do not tell me what her "record" is. I KNOW what odds she stood up to in order to give that speech in China! Both the U.S and China told her to censor her speech so as not to offend China. She wouldn't. To quote her friend "She marched up to that podium, planted her feet and gave her entire speech word for word in front of all those leaders and in defiance of China's human rights violations!"

I've never been so proud of her as when she did that. And when I see them say her "record" is so thin and even comparable to his I get madder than mad. I cannot help it. This woman has stood up for the most disenfranchised in society her whole working life.

What's really sad and selfish of Obama is that he is denying these young people a vote for someone who REALLY stands up for all the things they are saying they want so badly. I want them too! I just know who will really do it and not blow smoke up my arse to impress me!!

[Ijane]

I have never understood how people like Hitler, Mussolini, Chavez, got into power until now. For me, this has been a profound lesson and a very scary one. I've never appreciated how powerful a charismatic personality can be. No one could have convinced me that americans would ever be so vulnerable that they could blindly follow and bring to power someone they know nothing about. I'm not comparing Obama to Hitler but I think we've proven that the mind-set in america is not above any of these countries that unknowingly bring to power evil leaders.

[samkm]

I have never understood how people like Hitler, Mussolini, Chavez, got into power until now. For me, this has been a profound lesson and a very scary one. I've never appreciated how powerful a charismatic personality can be. No one could have convinced me that americans would ever be so vulnerable that they could blindly follow and bring to power someone they know nothing about. I'm not comparing Obama to Hitler but I think we've proven that the mind-set in america is not above any of these countries that unknowingly bring to power evil leaders.

Ijane,
Now that you know this, you have a greater responsibility to ENLIGHTEN as many people as possible who are basking in the faux glory of this total con man.. and have not taken the time and effort to look deep.

Look at my posting "Clear Choice... Nobel Prize... v...." under Pennsylvania and share as much of it as possible with others you know. You should be able to lift the posting and edit out the stuff that has to do with Quotations and HTML formatting. http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?p=13825#post13825

This is the only way we bring peace back within ourselves after for long blindly following this kool-aid hype.... Be committed to saving democracy in this beloved country of ours. THERE IS A LOT AT STAKE!!

[Etherplain]

The biggest problem that Barak Obama has ever faced is that someone would finally lift the veil and discover that he is actually a politician. He's not just some average guy of mixed hertiage that just happened to stumble into a political life and by some act of God was thrust into the public light to humbly take the mantle of presidential candidate.

He is a calculating politician with equally calculating advisors, lobbyists, friends in high-places who's agenda, who's goal has been since entering politics, to take a run for the highest office. Some of his tactics (and that of his campaign, present and past) are appalling. I think it is absolutely RIGHT that FINALLY people are starting to ask "Who is this guy?", because that's the dialog we've been missing all this time.

Personally I made a firm decision on Hillary after Edwards stepped-down, because I saw early on that Barak Obama was nothing but a lot of fluff
Glad that people are starting to follow in my wake.

[samkm]

Looks like they are finally beginning to figure out who he really is!

Exclusive: Obama Connection to Terrorists Revealed by Talk Show Host
by Jim Kouri, CPP
March 22, 2008 02:27 PM EST
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/31408.html

It takes a good radio talk show to come out with the truth.
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Like you, it was quite late when I found the light.. and with that came responsibility to undo the damage in staying in ignorance.

Now that we know this, we owe it to Hillary, why we owe it to the nation, to vote for Hillary.

First get to know her. www.thehillaryiknow.com
Get to know her solutions: www.hillaryclinton.com/issues
the veterans endorse her: http://flags4hill.com

Please donate and please volunteer.
Let us all support Hillary the fullest we can. Thank you.

[Lilee]

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--CONTENT GOES HERE (static)--Home About Books DVDs Wanna join a creepy political cult?
By David Speakman on February 9th, 2008

It gives me chills. The bad kind.

This type of cultish behavior is even freaking out Obama supporters, like Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein, who wrote about his experience with Obama supporters knocking on his front door like Jehovah’s witnesses or Amway salesman:

Obamaphilia has gotten creepy. I couldn’t figure out if the two canvassers who came to my door Sunday had taken Ecstasy or were just fantasizing about an Obama presidency, but I feared they were going to hug me.

And don’t think that Obama himself is not aware of this disturbing trend. As Men’s Vogue reported on a recent Hollywood fundraiser:

When Morgan Freeman comes over to greet Obama, the senator begins bowing down both hands in worship. “This guy was president before I was,” says Obama, referring to Freeman’s turn in Deep Impact and, clearly, getting a little ahead of his own bio. Next, a nod to Bruce Almighty: “This guy was God before I was.”

Wow.

This is the real deal, folks. The following is a real conversation I had this past week:

Obama Zealot: You should listen to his teachings. His word gave me purpose!

Me: Really?

Zealot: Yeah. Think about it. He’s like the true son of mankind. He transcends politics and race. He’s post-race. He transcends the flesh!

Me: Transcends the… what? Are you serious?

Zealot: Yes, I am. It may sound silly, but once you experience him; once he touches you, you’ll change inside. I should know, it happened to me. Come listen to this speech I have on my laptop.

Me: I support Hillary. I just don’t think Obama has what it takes.

Zealot: I can’t believe you’re using such racist code words.

Me: What are you talking about?

Zealot: You know, I thought I knew you. You’ve really disappointed me.

Me: What? You’ve gotta be kidding. Obama is not the messiah. He can’t walk on water and his farts don’t smell like roses, either.

Zealot: You need to stop playing the race card.

Me: Whatever.

Zealot: That’s OK, you’ll support him once he gets the nomination.

You know, that’s not the way to convince me, by acting like the Borg from Star Trek. In American politics - resistance is not futile.

Sorry, but I’m not interested in joining a cult.

Wow creepy stuff! It's not a political campaign at all is it. Are there any ethical guidlines in the Democratic Party or can their Candidates do anything devious, use people and manipulate them? Everyone should read these articles. They explain quite clearly the reasons why BO is leading in the vote count. The question is Are the American People going to let him get away with it and end up in The White House [sorry in racially sensitive America we will have to change that to The Black House]. All this during the most dangerous times internationally for the USA when the country needs practical powerful leadership not the laying on of hands.

[Donna4Hillary]

What this election reflects is the Democrat mentality and the feeling that their party has been hijacked. To be a Democrat means that you worked hard to earn a high school diploma and then went to work. If you had the chance to go to college, it was because you worked hard to pay your own way. But the Obamocrats who have joined the party are not of this same mentality. This is where the true grudges lie.

The Democrats realized that as their jobs disappeared, they had to find other ways to make sure their children had better opportunities. This required two incomes.

Moms were treated as dime a dozen employees who could easily be replaced by another. They had limited job skills leaving no option but to take whatever jobs were available. They scraped and sacrificed to give their children better opportunities. With more workers and less jobs, women were forced to put up with discrimination and sexual harassment to hold onto those jobs in order to accomplish their goal.

The Democrats joined the Democrat party for different reasons than those of the Obamocrats. The Democrats believed that they were educated liberal thinkers who worked hard to achieve the American Dream. Achieving the American Dream meant having a house, raising a family and providing for that family. They believed that they could uplift those living in poverty because they were a mere threshold away from being in poverty themselves. They believed in the principle that if you went to school, worked hard and studied that you could achieve the American Dream.

The Democrats are the hard working middle-class families who are struggling to keep from falling into poverty. They spent years and paid their dues only to have their jobs outsourced and replaced with nothing, lower paying jobs, or jobs requiring more than a high school diploma. Did this make them bitter? Perhaps, but more than likely they were scared. This meant going into debt with hopes of becoming better equipped to compete for the new jobs. This was the beginning of age discrimination.

Employers and business owners didn't want to risk hiring the older worker when they could invest their time and efforts into hiring the new - young college graduate. This kind of mentality encouraged resentment in its working class.

Those Democrats are still here. They feel as though their party has been hijacked and outsourced to a new kind of something-ocrat. They do not feel a connection with the Obamocrats. The problem is that new are not joining but taking over the party whereas they should have formed their own party. But the sole problem with new parties is that new parties do not win elections.

The Obamocrats are the college educated. They are the new work force who will make it even more difficult on the Democrats to compete in that work force. They are the white-collar workers of today and tomorrow who in the Democrats lifetime were not Democrats at all.

These Obamocrats are taught to believe that they will have life better because of their ivory hall education. They are taught to believe that the hard-working middle class is not a desired class. They are the radical liberal thinkers and believe that anyone who refuses to join with their way of thinking should leave the party. They believe that they are the here, the now and the future. They believe that they will force government to change. But that is where the problem lies.

The Obamocrats want to build a new house but they want to do so by replacing the roof. You cannot replace the roof and expect it to be a new house. To build a new house you need a new foundation.

The Democrats realize that building a new house will take more than replacing the roof. They realize that what the old house needs, until a new house is built, are some renovations. The Democrat understands the need for a new house, but they also understand that the old foundation will not bear the weight of a new roof and choose to replace the shingles.

The Obamocrat needs to understand that building a new house requires building a new foundation with new bricks and the use of new masons. There is nothing wrong with wanting a new house, but it is erroneous to believe that a new roof will be the same as a new house. This is a radical way of thinking, but it is erroneous at best. It is fabulous to have so many new bricks and new masons joining the party. Once the new bricks and new masons have worked to form the new foundation, the Democrats will be happy to join in building that new roof.

For now, the Democrats are happy to see the house as being renovated as they realize that the old foundation cannot sustain a new roof. The Obamocrat states that a true Democrat would not vote for a republican; however, an Democrat realizes that a new house is not built in a day.

HILLARY MORE THAN EVER!

[suerw]

Interesting read, Donna4Hillary.