Posted on 02/16/2008 4:23:20 PM PST by oblomov
I am having trouble fully appreciating the phenomenon that is Senator Obama. Certainly, Obama’s overpowering charisma has an amazing effect on any listener, such as spontaneous tears or quasi-erotic tingling in one’s leg. (The latter phenomenon is dubbed the "Matthews syndrome” after a man whose capacity for rational thought has been completely destroyed by the syndrome’s effects.) For me, however, any such tingling is immediately recognized and countered by my brain, which forces the nascent Obasm to a premature and unsatisfying conclusion.
Usually, my brain counters the Obasm by asking difficult and disturbing questions. For example, I will begin trembling with excitement when the senator’s magnetic voice rings out with an inspiring, “Yes, we can.” However, as soon as the leg starts tingling, my brain quashes the excitement with nagging questions: “What, exactly, is it that you think we can do? Do you really think we can afford to do that right now? Shouldn’t we take care of our other responsibilities before we start doing it? How are we going to do it, anyway? Are we going to do it your way, like always, or can we do it my way for once?”
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After hearing Obama’s speech this Wednesday at a GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, however, I hoped my brain would finally have some satisfactory answers for its persistent questions (and thus permit me to experience more of that leg-tingling goodness). Obama decided to make a tentative foray into substance, laying out some details on where he wants to take the country economically. We learned that Obama’s grand vision of the economic future is… the past. Yes, “the next great chapter in America's story” is, apparently, a manufacturing economy reminiscent of the early twentieth century.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
If Americans believe that this sort of misguided economics would be beneficial, then alas, we are a country in decline and we deserve an economic policy lightweight like Obama.
At this point, many people are sick of Hillary and her dreadful speaking style and the Clinton thug tactics. Eventually, they will realize that Obama is a Marxist. Bt maybe America wants to be a Marxist state (that is, at least 50% don’t realize the loss of personal freedom and economic ruin that is Marxism).
I have heard Blacks and Hispanics talking about White Freedom vs Black or Hispanic Freedom. That is, Whites are free, the others aren’t. Of course, this is complete nonsense, but is plays well politically.
I hope Obama can crush the clintons before he jumps the shark.
The Beltway Boys just showed two clips of Obama “quoting” McCain. Both misrepresented what McCain actually said.
Another thing I have noticed about Obama: he invents his own facts. Remember when he claimed in one of the RAT debates that conditions had improved in Anbar province because the RATS took over the House and Senate?
Similar to rock stars whose music makes you feel something pleasurable, even though they themselves may be maggot-infested, dope-smoking, syphilis-ridden, groupie-banging, high school dropout doofus, their "gift" of making music makes you feel something, and that counts for a lot.
There is no there there with Obama-lama-ding-dong. He's a blank slate with a gift for rhetoric that people project onto, and then convince themselves that that's what Obama is.
People are too DUMB to know the difference.
They just FEEL and LIKE hearing the word “change” and “we can do it”. They just don’t KNOW what he wants to do and they don’t care.
if you think he’s alight weight on economic policy wait til you hear his Kumbyah ‘60s foreign and security policies. He’s in a class below feather-weight.
“Another thing I have noticed about Obama: he invents his own facts.”
I have to say, the Huckster does that too but the Obomnation is worse.
http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm
One of Obama’s early mentors in the Alinsky method was Mike Kruglik, who had this to say to an interviewer of The New Republic, about Obama:
“He was a natural, the undisputed master of agitation, who could engage a room full of recruiting targets in a rapid-fire Socratic dialogue, nudging them to admit that they were not living up to their own standards. As with the panhandler, he could be aggressive and confrontational. With probing, sometimes personal questions, he would pinpoint the source of pain in their lives, tearing down their egos just enough before dangling a carrot of hope that they could make things better.”
The agitator’s job, according to Alinsky, is first to bring folks to the “realization” that they are indeed miserable, that their misery is the fault of unresponsive governments or greedy corporations, then help them to bond together to demand what they deserve, and to make such an almighty stink that the dastardly governments and corporations will see imminent “self-interest” in granting whatever it is that will cause the harassment to cease.
In these methods, euphemistically labeled “community organizing,” Obama had a four-year education, which he often says was the best education he ever got anywhere.
Adolf Hitler also had an amazing effect on his listeners, too.
Wow.
See my post #11, above.
Yeah... and John McCain had a son who just came home for Iraq, while another son will graduate from the Naval Academy in 2009.
The Clintons are crushing themselves.
A noted male TV personality reacting to Obama said it all for the male reaction but I was at a loss to explain female reaction.
So when Homer Simpson offered his feeeeelings, "Mmmm.. Change," I realized that that was it. That's the typical Obama support of the male persuasion.
Now Obasm. The same giddy response to Gorbachev, Gorbasm, that was first reported by Rush. It's the same for Obama's female supporters -- especially the indispensable fainting in the front row.
"For some the spell lasted only while the voice spoke to them, and when it spake to another they smiled, as men do who see through a juggler's trick while others gape at it. For many the sound of the voice alone was enough to hold them enthralled; but for those whom it conquered the spell endured when they were far away, and ever they heard that soft voice whispering and urging them.
"But none were unmoved; none rejected its pleas and its commands without an effort of mind and will, so long as its master had control of it."
That's from the second volume of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, The Two Towers: "The Voice of Saruman".
>>God, sometimes I really wish there was a “Are you %#&*ing
>>kidding me?! None of the above!” choice on the election ballot.
I agree. I would love to have NOTA as a choice in every race.
I do too. I don't think that Obama's "televangelist" style can last until November.
To me, Omama is nothing more than a Black Jimmy Swaggart.
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