Posted on 01/17/2009 6:07:47 PM PST by Steelfish
Barack Obama plans a 'paparazzi presidency' to speak directly to voters
Barack Obama plans to cash in on his celebrity status and create what is being called a "paparazzi presidency", using appearances and interviews in glossy magazines to speak directly to voters.
By Tim Shipman in Washington 17 Jan 2009
Planning to mobilise his vast network of supporters: Mr Obama's campaign, election and forthcoming inauguration have sparked the kind of hysteria and fascination with even his most inconsequential activities, usually associated with the private lives of Hollywood celebrities. Mr
Obama has repeatedly sought to throw off the travelling press pack which chronicles his every move, and banned the mainstream media from taking pictures of him on holiday.
But Democratic strategists say his aides have seen an opportunity in the insatiable appetite of the public for information on the new first family.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Yeah, it sounds like he’s going to make a “celebrity Presidency” like a Hollywood star character — and try to maintain popularity through “celebrity status” and not so much through political machinations.
This might be an effective methodology that Obama has developed, along with his citizen army and people on the net. It does sound like he’s developing a different strategy to maintain the popular support of his Presidency.
That means a lot of what he does will be smoke and mirrors and show-biz glitz...
OH Great don’t tell me Barek Osmra be showing his goods on TMZ.com LOL!
OK. The 4th estate is now in cattle cars. Maybe in the rarified, thin air of baggage.
Oh, man! I am sick to death of obama obama obama. There will be swooning and fainting, obama-related deaths, he will be waving and calling out “I love you. Give me your money.”
Must go into basement for the week.
This is going to be ONE LONG FOUR YEARS.
Uuuuuummmmmmmm, yeah, right.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Trick-or-Treat_With_the_Obamas.html
Double speak and lies! Liberal RATS are corruption and hypocrites personified.
You should see his “Change” website. Apparently they did some polling about what people want and responders were teenagers or something.
Legalize drugs and free medical were right at the top of the list.
Ann Coulter for PRESIDENT.
I plan on buying earplugs
Replace Helen Thomas with Perez Hilton?
Dear God,
PLEASE make it stop.
Amen
As much as I cannot stand his politics, he and those around him understand the psychology of the modern simpleton mind than do the GOP currently.
It no longer is the age of telling the truth, it is creating image and perception that your best interests are most safely guarded in O’s hands and the sheep just follow, no questions asked. If US weekly and Time and the other newstands show him smiling and making the masses “feel good” about themselves under him he’ll NEVER lose...it’s clever and manipulative and frankly wrong to do, but who can stop it?
When Hitler did it, we called it “propoganda”.
You make an excellent point. The survival of the modern presidency is all about PR
FTA: “They predict that a photograph of Mr Obama smoking (a habit he has vowed to quit) would fetch up to $100,000.”
And a picture of the Mutt preserving, protecting, and defending the Constitution of the United States will be worth zip point sh!t.
>>Dear God,
PLEASE make it stop.
Amen<<
Dear God,
Deliver us from evil.
Amen
Hitler II’s coming. I am sure Hillary is furious that she can’t be the new Hitler.
Naturally, Cult of Personality will be his inaugural theme song, right?
I turned the news off today and I’ve been watching the History and Discovery channel all day. I did take a break and watch Braveheart.
A show about George Washington is on the History channel now.
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