The Audacity of Hype (Barry's Overblown Acceptance Speech)

NYT ^ | 8/31/2008 | William Safire

[DUMBGRUNT]

A remake of “Triumph of the Will” by Leni Riefenstahl.

[BenLurkin]

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Safire: "Instead, Obama’s handlers offered the political version of “American Idol” — the audacity of hype. On the 50-yard line of the football field, at a reported cost of $6 million, they erected a plywood Parthenon, its fake Grecian columns suggesting the White House. At the end, not a traditional balloon drop in a contained hall — enjoyable hoopla — but a fireworks display in the heavens over a mass of humanity in a blizzard of confetti, all too like the collectivist fantasy that opened and closed the Beijing Olympics... The pretension of the fake Grecian temple setting clashed with the high-decibel, rock-star format and overwhelmed the history implicit in the event. Ancient Greeks had a word for it: hubris."

They were true believers. Liberals believe the hype of the Obamapalooza which should be studied for what it reveals about this cult. There is a very thin line between fantasy and reality in Obama's liberalism. At times it comes across like he thinks we are in the pre-Civil War deep south or in South Africa before Mandela. That he will be the judge of America's moral fitness which rests upon whether Obama is elected. This overblown self-righteousness far exceeds the actual social conditions and civil rights issues in American society. At a certain point you have to ask where this anger, hubris, and grandiosity are coming from and what this is all about. It looks like the grandiosity and overcompensation of a neurotic, pathological narcissist who views himself just a notch below the deity, if that.

He owes some apology to Alan Keyes, Jesse Jackson, and Sharpton because, contrary to the way he makes it sound, he is not the first African-American man to run for president. I don't recall the media putting on an Obamapalooza-like concert for them. And they ran for president without seeking a stage in Berlin or hinting about being "the One." Jackson gave his convention speech in a regular hall...without fireworks. And whatever else you can say about him, when Jackson called for worship it was of God, not himself.

For all the hype about this being a historic candidacy, if the media had exposed John Edwards' affair last fall or vetted Obama more thoroughly before the primaries, it would be Hillary Clinton claiming the mantle of an "historic" candidacy for the presidency. And nobody - NOBODY - would be confusing her with Moses or Jesus.

[neverdem]

BTTT!

[Veto!]

a thrilling mastery of the teleprompter.

What a great line. Deserves repeating again and again and again.

[Veto!]

At the end, not a traditional balloon drop

I posted earlier that I didn't expect ballons, but helium filled condoms floating overhead.

Liberals don't need 'em. They have abortions and drink HIV cocktails instead.

[the invisib1e hand]

sounds a lot like John Kerry swiftboating into Boston Harbor, reporting for duty.

[infowarrior]

If they thought their candidate struck people as “Presidential” on his own, would they spend one dollar or one minute doing this?

And, in the end, like they always do, they wasted the money...

the infowarrior

[infowarrior]

A poor remake of “Triumph of the Will” by Leni Riefenstahl.

Fixed for ya...

the infowarrior

[raybbr]

The Audacity of Hype (Barry's Overblown Acceptance Speech) Bill Safire

[raybbr]

Sorry for that. I got my tabs confused.

[Hardastarboard]

It’s called “presumptive selling”. You do it to close the deal. Treat the customer as if he’s already bought; nobody in their right mind would turn this deal down. I’m going to take real good care of you, Mr. Customer, just you wait and see. Yada, yada, yada.

[mrsmel]

On the 50-yard line of the football field, at a reported cost of $6 million, they erected a plywood Parthenon, its fake Grecian columns suggesting the White House.

Somewhere I read where it's been called the "Barackopolis". I thought that was good.

[arthurus]

Who remembers that speech now? Who wants to?

[RipSawyer]

In one catchall sentence, Obama promised to defeat “terrorism and nuclear proliferation; poverty and genocide; climate change and disease.”
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I heard this sentence and couldn’t beleive my ears. Obama apparently considers himself one notch ABOVE God Almighty, or else he thinks the voters are all idiots. I am beginning to believe both are true. Still, the most frightening thing to me is not Obama, it is the millions of voters who are stupid enough to take this insult to humanity seriously. If the average American still had the common sense that used to be standard for eighth grade dropouts Obama would be in prison now along with the Clintons and many others who are mismanaging our national government.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

It's a cult really. With a demagogue deliberately whooping up hysteria and invoking civil rights issues of 45 years ago. He wasn't even living in the United States during the 1960s, so maybe he is trying to catch up by replaying them?

And we know Marx said history repeats itself, the second time around as farce. He's not Dr. King and we're not in Selma in the 1960s. REPUBLICANS ran as a candidate and were casting votes for Alan Keyes BEFORE he had ever been heard of. So where was the hysterical, gushy media coverage then? Oh, only liberal African-American candidates get favorable press coverage. The hype about his candidacy is overblown.

[GOPJ]

What did you think of the music at the end of Obama's speech? Hollywood attempting to evoke feelings that a profound experience had just ended - -

"too much" is an understatement.

[abclily]

I think Dr. Sowell wrote about “The Audacity of Ignorance.”

[loveliberty2]

The Sowell statement I was remembering came from his August 30 Townhall.com article. After he had outlined many other things, he concluded it with this:

"Cutting the military budget and taking foreign policy problems to the United Nations are Obama's version of "change."

"That is change that we dare not believe in. It is the audacity of hype."

[mrsmel]

What really gets my goat are the Europeans getting in on the act-calling Americans “racist” if we won’t vote for him, nevermind if we disagree with his socialist policies. In the comments sections of a couple of British papers, I’ve asked them to tell me the last time a European nation elected a black man or woman, whether liberal or conservative, as head of government. Or even the last time a black person ran as a serious candidate in a mainstream party, much less got elected. No reply as of yet to my questions. And they say Americans are such racists-yet Britain has a hereditary head of state-monarchy-that is held by one family, much less there ever being a black person as king or queen. I have no problem with that-if they like having a monarchy, that’s their business-but the day they even run a black person for Prime Minister, much less elect one, then they can talk about our “racist electorate” or government.