America’s Obama Obsession - Anatomy of a passing hysteria.

National Review ^ | 10-23-09 | Victor Davis Hanson - Commentary

[truthguy]

Victor Davis Hanson- accurate and brilliant as usual! VDH has become my favorite columnist/commentator/historian. The guy is a national treasure. He and Mark Steyn are the superstars of conservative though in my opinion. There are many others who contribute as well but none write and speak as eloquently as these two. Their articles are so easy to read and understand.

[IronJack]

The only other writer who so consistently and articulately chronicled the socialist march was the late, lamented William F. Buckley.

[ohioWfan]

I actually thought she was being influenced by the Serpent while she was extolling the virtues of a brutal mass murderer in a church.

Seriously. All I could think about was Satan as she was speaking.

btw, thanks for posting this great VDH piece. It's a keeper.

[a fool in paradise]

You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

[CharacterCounts]

In addition to McCain, we cannot forget the republican congress walking away from conservatives to kiss up to special interests. This contributed greatly to the mood for change.

[smoothsailing]

Jaz, don’t know if you’ve seen this yet, but it’s a great video link to Dick Cheney’s speech in it’s entirety...

http://www.youtube.com/user/securefreedom#p/u/1/URXg53pqpHw

[smoothsailing]

I actually thought she was being influenced by the Serpent while she was extolling the virtues of a brutal mass murderer in a church.

The more I think about it the more I agree with you.

[ohioWfan]

When Glenn Beck first showed the video on his show, he played it repeatedly, and I found that I had to shut my eyes after a while because she was so disturbing.

[jazusamo]

Thanks, Smooth, it’s an excellent presentation.

He’s driving the lefties insane with it, just goes to show that the truth hurts. LOL!

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

The Obama fake messiah cult is right out of a book on utopian extremist movements.
Charismatic cult leader, delusional promises of utopia, hysterical egalitarianism,
levelling, hypnotic chanting of mindless mantras at mass rallies, demonization of opponents.
It's a textbook case study.
Right down to the Maoist, Alinskyite, and Fabian Socialist sources and footnotes.

[smoothsailing]

chanting of mindless mantras at mass rallies

See post #9. :)

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

It should be studied as a mental disorder.
Certain types of people are more prone and vulnerable to cults.

[neverdem]

bump & a VDH ping

[the invisib1e hand]

unquestionably the hysteria will pass.

1) Obama was eloquent, young, charismatic — and African-American. He thus offered voters a sense of personal and collective redemption, as well as appealing to the longing for another JFK New Frontier figure. An image, not necessarily reality, trumped all.

I just watched the movie "When We Were Kings," about the "Rumble in the Jungle" between Ali and Foreman. It was fascinating on many fronts, but what was new to me was how Ali, by showing with mantle of Messiah (undoubtedtly an attitude fostered by his Nation of Islam affinity) won the public opinion and had the people of Zaire on his side from the beginning -- and then won a fight he probably shouldn't have won.

It's a bizarre mojo, and the parallels to the Obama marketing themes are striking. I gather Axelrod watched the movie.

[300winmag]

“I won’t have to put gas in my car, I won’t have to pay my mortgage.”

True. He just didn't tell you that you'd no longer have a car or a house, so you wouldn't be paying on them any more.

[AFPhys]

Wait a minute- they don’t think that you and I are going to have to pay for it. It is from Obama’s ‘stash’ and they don’t know or care where that comes from.