Posted on 02/15/2008 10:46:53 AM PST by Kaslin
WASHINGTON -- There's no better path to success than getting people to buy a free commodity. Like the genius who figured out how to get people to pay for water: bottle it (Aquafina was revealed to be nothing more than reprocessed tap water) and charge more than they pay for gasoline. Or consider how Google found a way to sell dictionary nouns -- boat, shoe, clock -- by charging advertisers zillions to be listed whenever the word is searched.
And now, in the most amazing trick of all, a silver-tongued freshman senator has found a way to sell hope. To get it, you need only give him your vote. Barack Obama is getting millions.
This kind of sale is hardly new. Organized religion has been offering a similar commodity -- salvation -- for millennia. Which is why the Obama campaign has the feel of a religious revival with, as writer James Wolcott observed, a "salvational fervor" and "idealistic zeal divorced from any particular policy or cause and chariot-driven by pure euphoria."
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Consumers have any culpability here?
Good column, thanks for sharing. I think people with a real relationship with God will be largely immune to this B. Hussein Obama cult, but those who have no anchor in their lives . . . God save us from them.
Can they name a politician who ISN’T a platitude salesman? They all are at some point oor other.
Rush has the funniest commercial where he has people gushing over Obama’s “hope” and “change” sermons.
You know, it almost seems like secularists have discovered the Church of Obama.
They already have their own church. Obama is but the latest edition of their Jimmy Swaggart.
To expand on my point, I think the people that get thrills in their legs from Obama are in spiritual danger. It will be clarifying if this cult continues; we’ll learn a lot about the people in our lives from thier reactions to it.
It’s no wonder that Obama is Clinton ‘92 redux, running on (from) Hope (Arkansas). It must utterly gall Billery that Obama has stolen their moves as the nouveau outsider.
Jimmy Carter pulled the same stunt and look at all the ills we are still dealing with because of his failed presidency. Where’s that lasting middle east peace you promised us Jimmah? Still waiting.
Obama is no different and will suffer the same fall they both did should he gain the White House.
Obama/Winfrey ‘08 - Soma! Soma! Soma!
This is why I am joing the Children's Crusade of 2008 and voting for the one man who can deliver us from evil, and am definitely casting my vote (s) for Barack Hussein Obama ,,, unless Mrs. Clinton makes me a super delegate, pays to have all my children's teeth straightened, and makes me Ambassador to Costa Rica. Her husband (Monica Lewinsky's ex-boyfriend) also said something about a new car.
Demcrats don’t want a president. They want a messiah. Obama is partly the Republicans creation because of the talk shows success at sowing disgust with Clinton. Now we have a much bigger monster on our hands. Obama is a much loved, attractive, anti-semitic, far-left radical who didn’t vote to protect babies that survive abortion procedures.
Obama beats McCain because he is more likeable than she is. That is not exactly much of a task. Besides that he is less of a Washington insider and has a lot less baggage.
Bush beats Gore because he is more likeable than he is. That is not exactly much of a task besides that he is less of a Washington insider and has a lot less baggage.
Bush beats Kerry because he is more likeable than he is. That is not exactly much of a task. Besides that even as President he is less of a Washington insider than the the guy who said I voted against before I voted for it.
To Mr. Krauthammer, the fact that Obama wants us to believe he is some kind of blank page candidate, who suddenly appeared on the scene and is selling nothing of substance as change has little to do with the fact that he can win.
But you forgot to stress that we must always think of the children as they are our future. So we must teach them well and let them lead the way. To those greener pastures where lion and lamb live together in perfect... perfect harmony. The dark days are behind us as we create our sunny days, chasing those clouds away, finding our way to where the air is, oh Lord, so, so very sweet.
After acknowledging that Obama is "almost insanely eloquent," Henninger points out that his message is a downer: "He is selling deep grievance over the structure of American society. That's the same message as John Edwards, or Dennis Kucinich for that matter. Hillary Clinton's mistake may have been to think this is 2008, not 1938...Barack Obama isn't selling sunshine in America."
That’s great point! He is trying to sound like Mendela or Gandhi......however, their big problems were kind of like feeding the starving poor.......not the extreme obesity......our “poor” are faced with.
Again, that is truly a great point. Don’t think McCain could exploit it and present it in a humorous way.....but he certainly is potraying best country in the world as beaten down masses.......
Lissen you, I did NOT forget the gd children! They were crushed because while they had their little shoulders to the wheel, they fell into the grindstone. It was of course, operated by vile Republican capitalist warmongers, who if allowed to prevail in the next national election, will repeal the Emancipation Proclamation, reinstitute child labor, and try the Schlieffen Plan again in Europe. They will burn all the Oprah books and Barbara Streisand ablums. But as you so eloquently (and quite originally) put it, The dark days are behind us as we create our sunny days, chasing those clouds away, finding our way to where the air is, oh Lord, so, so very sweet.
Let us join hands now, and sing "Kumbaya," as the Anointed One, AKA, Barak Hussein Obama, leads us in all our diverse glory unto The City on the Hill.
Henninger thinks Obama’s message is a depressing one, whereas he says McCain’s rhetoric has an “upward, positive” arc. The question is whether the public will perceive it that way and respond like they did to Reagan’s optimisn,
People who do not believe in God were most likely to vote for Obama out of the five or so candidates a while back. It is no coincidence they think he’s the messiah.
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