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Cult of Obama Will Turn Off Independents
RealClearPolitics ^ | February 19, 2008 | Froma Harrop

Posted on 02/19/2008 8:46:07 AM PST by processing please hold

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And at that time, the news media were still lavishing love on Obama. That situation is about to end. "He's the fashion plate of the moment," an editorial page editor remarked, "but fashion week is over."

Sophisticated commentary now notes the growing creepiness of the Obama campaign: Its aversion to substantive policy discussions. The sermonizing -- "In the face of despair, we believe there can be hope." And the messianic bit -- "At this moment in the election there is something happening in America." (That would be he.)

Volunteer trainees at Camp Obama are told not to talk issues with voters, but to offer personal testimony about how they "came" to Obama. Makes the skin crawl.

Centrists generally do not find cults of personality entertaining. The mass hypnosis reminds them of the mortgage frenzy -- all these people buying into a dream and not caring about the fine print.

The Republican Party, meanwhile, has given them a choice. This is despite the best efforts of its right wing to pick a candidate against whom any Democrat would be better. And the more the radicals beat up on the Arizona senator, the more he looks like a contender to moderate Democrats.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cult; independentvote; nobama; obama; obamamessiah
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I posted this story because I loathe obamessiah, but you Mcpainaics on FR. will probably enjoy it.

Be back at lunch time.

1 posted on 02/19/2008 8:46:11 AM PST by processing please hold
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Obama delights in announcing at his rallies, “Can we get someone over here to help? Someone else has fainted.”


2 posted on 02/19/2008 8:49:28 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: processing please hold

“Independents” or “Independence” ???


3 posted on 02/19/2008 8:50:27 AM PST by fishtank (Fenced BORDERS, English LANGUAGE, Patriotic CULTURE: A good plan.)
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Froma is a committed liberal. And a radical feminist. No doubt, Hillary was her favorite flavor.

As much as anything, this is an exercise in sour grapes.

4 posted on 02/19/2008 8:51:47 AM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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And the more the radicals beat up on the Arizona senator, the more he looks like a contender to moderate Democrats.

Says it all, radicals = us right wing conservative loons.

Moderate Democrats and independents are the ones that got him where he is and if he wins they will be the ones that do it. But that will not happen! As has been posted before, why vote for democrate socialist lite when you can vote for the real thing.

5 posted on 02/19/2008 8:57:22 AM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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Volunteer trainees at Camp Obama are told not to talk issues with voters, but to offer personal testimony about how they “came” to Obama. Makes the skin crawl.
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Indeed it does. This parroting of Christianity . . . Michelle Obama says Barak will “fix our souls” . . . volunteers tell us how they “came” to Obama . . . That
Barak “will not allow” us to remain uninvolved. If this grows it will be truly frightening.


6 posted on 02/19/2008 8:57:51 AM PST by Greg F (Do you want a guy named Hussein to fix your soul? Michelle Obama thinks you do.)
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And the more the radicals beat up on the Arizona senator, the more he looks like a contender to moderate Democrats.

Says it all, radicals = us right wing conservative loons.

Moderate Democrats and independents are the ones that got him where he is and if he wins they will be the ones that do it. But that will not happen! As has been posted before, why vote for democrate socialist lite when you can vote for the real thing. "Proxy error going on"

7 posted on 02/19/2008 8:58:50 AM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: Brilliant

Jim Jones of the democrat party. Don’t drink the koolaide!

Cult of personality...
How long can the mass hysteria maintain this level?

How soon can we get to the issues?


8 posted on 02/19/2008 8:58:58 AM PST by griswold3 (Al queda is guilty of hirabah (war against society) Penalty is death.)
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Cult of Obama Will Turn Off Independents

No it won't. The mantra will be "vote for Obama to prove you're not racist."

And it will work, just as it is working in the Primaries.

9 posted on 02/19/2008 8:58:59 AM PST by Yo-Yo (USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
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And the more the radicals beat up on the Arizona senator, the more he looks like a contender to moderate Democrats.

Says it all, radicals = us right wing conservative loons.

Moderate Democrats and independents are the ones that got him where he is and if he wins they will be the ones that do it. But that will not happen! As has been posted before, why vote for democrate socialist lite when you can vote for the real thing. "Proxy error going on"

10 posted on 02/19/2008 8:59:02 AM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: Greg F

And I will repeat, as many of us have an other similar threads — that this man will prove to be the antichrist. Everything about him — his background, his heritage, his “cult” following that hints at the “Messiah,” the fact that he has raised crowds to a fevered pitch without having actually done anything in the past to cause such adoration. I am not a looneytunes, honest! There is no other explanation and he fits perfectly.


11 posted on 02/19/2008 9:08:59 AM PST by awakened (Remember -- There are no dead atheists.)
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Here is what will turn off independents - - and nearly everybody else:


12 posted on 02/19/2008 9:10:08 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Greg F

it’s the obamaSHAM.


13 posted on 02/19/2008 9:10:10 AM PST by tioga (Beware: conservative with back to the wall. Proceed with extreme caution.)
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Worthwhile link through within the article on Obama’s communist ties:

http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/ckincaid/2008/ck_02194.shtml


14 posted on 02/19/2008 9:10:11 AM PST by Greg F (Do you want a guy named Hussein to fix your soul? Michelle Obama thinks you do.)
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While 52 percent of Obama's supporters were amenable to a Clinton candidacy, only 49 percent of Clinton voters said they'd be happy with the Illinois senator, according to the survey by Harvard University's Institute of Politics.

I hate it when they float statistics like this around, and act like it actually means something. 3% is not statistically significant. They skew it by using the words "while" and "only".

15 posted on 02/19/2008 9:10:48 AM PST by scan59 (Let consumers dictate market policies. Government just gets in the way.)
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You mean Independents aren’t going to vote for the chain-smoking Marxist?


16 posted on 02/19/2008 9:11:08 AM PST by Rodm (Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings)
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To: griswold3

“How long can the mass hysteria maintain this level?”

Well in Germany it once lasted 12-years. (1933-1945)


17 posted on 02/19/2008 9:14:16 AM PST by Towed_Jumper (Stephen Hopkins: Founding Father who had Cerebral Palsy.."My hand trembles, my heart does not.")
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To: okie01
As much as anything, this is an exercise in sour grapes.

True enough.

Obama as the nominee scares the hell out of me, because he's taken a page from Reagan's winning book - optimism.

Reagan pulled in a lot of people who wouldn't have supported his policies because he was optimistic. He loved America and saw only the best in her. Obama's using the same rhetoric, and all we can offer in return is the sourpuss pessimist McCain.

18 posted on 02/19/2008 9:15:20 AM PST by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: awakened

I hear you.


19 posted on 02/19/2008 9:16:04 AM PST by Greg F (Do you want a guy named Hussein to fix your soul? Michelle Obama thinks you do.)
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To: Towed_Jumper

I heard many stories from my mother (born 1920) in Germany about WWII and Hitler (my aunt was a Hitler youth). But the difference there was that Germany was in shambles after WWI.
No matter how the MSM try to degrade the economy, the evidence is clear for future growth.
I can’t believe the American voter, cynical as they may be, will fall for this BS.


20 posted on 02/19/2008 9:19:56 AM PST by griswold3 (Al queda is guilty of hirabah (war against society) Penalty is death.)
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