Posted on 02/29/2008 3:34:12 PM PST by BamaBelle
But the real question, for me, at least, is whether or not Obama is enjoying a double-standard here. Clearly, his campaign is seeking to associate him as the Christian candidate. As you'll recall, Mike Huckabee was criticized for wearing his religion on his sleeve. My question is whether or not Obama will have to answer similar questions due to this overtly religious flier ...
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A Democrat having to answer for his religious beliefs? Only when hell freezes over.
Obamism is a religion.
Good answer!
Bringing Huckabee into a criticism of Obama ruins the point.
Not even the same thing at all. Huckabee is proud of being a Christian. Obama thinks he is the new christ. Night and day difference.
How so?
Obama is modeling his speeches after an old fashioned tent revivalist preacher. He even uses the same cadence that they use, and mentions God more frequently than George Bush ever did. The difference is that you can never be sure which God Obama is talking about. His God seems to be a generic type that rules whatever religion you want it to.
Our Nation began with the concept of God’s sovereignty over man and man’s duty to his Creator and the inalienable rights given to him by his Creator. So I can’t see why anyone is offended by a candidate who acknowledges God’s sovereignty over his own life. On the other hand, Obama presents himself as the hope, the revival, the answer, the new messiah. Big big big big difference. I’m offended at the comparison and it might just drive me to change to unaffiliated voter.
Way more blatant than what Huck did... we now see the guy who had a leftie agnostic Mom and was marked as Muslim in indonesian schools is now ... the Rev Barack Obama.
Methinks we have a guy able to out Bill Clinton even Bill Clinton in his shameless expropriation of whatever tool is useful to sell his candidacy.
I agree with you on that. I read once about some elite folks that have studied language patterns and use them along with music to influence people. Some shady televangelists have been accused of using this tactic, as well as, some folks you might not think would.
It will be interesting to see if this flyer gets the same media play as Huckabee’s Christmas ad, but I think we already know the answer...
There are classic techniques used by marxist organizers to get people to buy into the cult of communism. They sound like Elmer Gantry but are more akin to Malcolm X and Saul Alinsky stuff he learned as a community organizer. What Obama is selling is more earthly than Godly, the socialist utopian religion. The people are buying into the ‘cult of personality’ that promises the ‘change’ and ‘hope’ if they are part of the Movement of the Great Leader.
It would be interesting to see if his speeches parallel Juan Perons or Hugo Chavez’s.
This Obama video made by will i am of the Black Eyed Peas (this is the Pop-Up version, BTW, with sarcastic conservative commentary) shows that Obama followers believe he IS the Messiah: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_X0ZwwJDY8&eurl This is virtually indistinguishable from the brainwashing videos lauding L. Ron Hubbard and Tom Cruise shown at Scientology conventions. It has repetitive music, hypnotic chanting, stylized graven images of the Leader, various feel-good platitudes, adoring worshippers who talk about how only the Leader cares about them and can save the world, and not a single hard fact about what he would actually do if elected. Seriously scary.
Because Huckabee is legitimate and Obama is not. This approach upgrades Obama instead of making an impact regarding media hypocrisy.
It’s not in Obama’s best interests for people to know exactly what is taught at his church.
I first noticed the use of the cadence and the key words during Obama’s 2004 speech at the Dem convention. Every time he spoke certain words, the Black audience would put their arms in the air and start swaying like a charismatic prayer meeting. I’ve been wondering if they were coached to do that, or if it was really spontaneous. I’ve never been moved by such preaching, but I’ve been in the congregation and it has always been inexplicable to me.I fully expected them to cut to an ad so they could start speaking in tongues.
And Chris Matthews says he gets a THRILL that goes up his leg from it.
I just clicked the link to the flier, and you can see that it doesn’t claim any belief in God, it claims that he attends a church that reaffirms Black history and community service, not belief in Christ, the son of God. Other than the name of the church and the picture, it could be any religion, or none.
I liked the description of his mother as a “non-believer” rather than an atheist, it leaves open the option that she was an agnostic.
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