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Obama Mystique Raises Clout to Mythic Proportions
Newsmax ^ | 1-26-09 | James Hirsen

Posted on 01/26/2009 10:32:57 AM PST by holy joe

President Barack Obama is walking, talking, and acting like a conservative.

There’s daily footage of him as the devoted husband and doting dad. He speaks reverentially about the founders of the nation and the need to serve the country and each other. He wears his faith on his sleeve, even inviting famed Pastor Rick Warren to the inauguration to ask for God’s blessing.

But the conservative symbols and imagery stand in stark contrast to the left-of-center agenda emerging from his administration: executive orders that weaken America’s national security and safety, taxpayer funding of abortions, three-quarters of a billion dollars in pork included in the bailout bill, etc.

We’ve seen presidential liberalism in action before. But what’s different this time around is that Obama is in a better position to move the country to far-left regions than were any of his predecessors.

It’s a given that whoever sits in the Oval Office is a bona-fide celebrity. It’s always been that way. But Obama’s star power rises to a level that his predecessors could only have dreamed of.

The media helped move the needle up on Obama’s fame meter with embarrassing, one-sided, royalty-like coverage during the campaign season. The needle continues to be pushed further thanks to the minute-by-minute gushing on the part of news and entertainment venues.

Additional factors contribute to Obama’s celebrity cachet, including good looks, confidence, and a take-charge attitude. He’s the hottest celebrity on the planet, affirmed by the number of magazine covers his face adorns, with People and US Weekly leading the pack. And “Entertainment Tonight,” “Extra,” and “Access Hollywood” just can’t seem to get their fill of the Barackstar. Obamamania shows no sign of diminishing.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 0bama; agenda; bho2009; bho44; conservative; image; jimhirsen; obama; obamamessiah; propaganda; theone; zeroworship
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1 posted on 01/26/2009 10:32:58 AM PST by holy joe
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To: holy joe

When Obama farts it smells like roses.


2 posted on 01/26/2009 10:34:11 AM PST by Edizzl79 (you want my guns..come and get em...I dare ya....)
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To: Edizzl79
With or without the fertilizer?
3 posted on 01/26/2009 10:35:11 AM PST by JimC214
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To: holy joe
President Barack Obama is walking, talking, and acting like a conservative.

That is one of the most insane statements I have ever read.

4 posted on 01/26/2009 10:35:51 AM PST by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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To: holy joe

Maybe he’s really a DINO or even a LINO!!!??


5 posted on 01/26/2009 10:36:10 AM PST by stuartcr (If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
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To: holy joe

Thank you slimeball Rick Warren phony pastor for giving O a little legitimacy. I guess Oprah promised to pimp Rick’s next book.


6 posted on 01/26/2009 10:36:20 AM PST by Frantzie
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To: JimC214

Lots of miracle grow for that “rich” smell.


7 posted on 01/26/2009 10:36:47 AM PST by Edizzl79 (you want my guns..come and get em...I dare ya....)
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To: holy joe

No ‘clout’ demonstrated so far, just EO’s.


8 posted on 01/26/2009 10:36:58 AM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: holy joe
President Barack Obama is walking, talking, and acting like a conservative.

I think it's really, really past time that we figure out what the definition of "conservative" is these days.

9 posted on 01/26/2009 10:37:02 AM PST by Wolfstar (Some day when we meet up yonder, we'll stroll hand in hand again, in a land that knows no parting)
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To: holy joe
There's a huge disconnect between his stated goals and his actions. For example, “economic stimulus” is the stated goal; abortion, environmental nonsense, education spending is the action. Doesn't make sense.
10 posted on 01/26/2009 10:37:44 AM PST by youngidiot
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To: jveritas
I know a number of rabid Obama supporters who have become rather disillusioned. "He's governing just like Bush!" they tell me.

Yeah. Aside from that whole soft-on-terrorism, pro-abortion, pro-homosexual stuff.

These folks are crazy.

11 posted on 01/26/2009 10:38:18 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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Here's what the writer is trying to reconcile ~ Obama's words with his actions.

Guy says he's going to hand out light fluffy chocolate candy to children with the right hand, but he's walking along killing babies with the left.

12 posted on 01/26/2009 10:38:26 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: stuartcr
Maybe he’s really a DINO or even a LINO!!!??

No chance. O is a self-described Marxist. It's just that, since he got the I-wanna-be-prez bug, he hasn't been very honest about it.

13 posted on 01/26/2009 10:38:27 AM PST by Wolfstar (Some day when we meet up yonder, we'll stroll hand in hand again, in a land that knows no parting)
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To: holy joe

“Rome is the mob and the mob is Rome.”


14 posted on 01/26/2009 10:40:05 AM PST by MountainPete ("What are you prepared to do now?" - Sean Connery in "The Untouchables")
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15 posted on 01/26/2009 10:41:00 AM PST by Lucky9teen (Its as if the US said: I give up...cant stand the shrillwhining anymore. U run it & c what happens.)
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To: holy joe
Obama Mystique Raises Clout to Mythic Proportions

Pride goes before destruction,
And a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 16:18

16 posted on 01/26/2009 10:41:41 AM PST by EternalVigilance (God is watching and listening.)(The Personhood Imperative: www.BanAbortionNOW.com)
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To: holy joe

Ruling by a Radical

http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3288631/ruling-by-a-radical.thtml


17 posted on 01/26/2009 10:42:39 AM PST by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real they have some pretty good ideas.)
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To: holy joe

“The media helped move the needle up on Obama’s fame meter with embarrassing, one-sided, royalty-like coverage during the campaign season”.....

The sheep watch the nightly news and believe that what Katie Couric barfs out must be true or why would she say it?....People have given up thinking for themselves and they are going to get the disastrous with full blown socialism.


18 posted on 01/26/2009 10:42:56 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: holy joe

Just wait, it’s still early - reality hasn’t set in yet. When the sheeple finally realize they’ve been sold a bill of goods, his cult of personality is going to take some serious blows.

Oh, the press will still be grabbing his thighs with both hands and kissing his ass, and liberal wingnuts will still proclaim him Lord and Master and Messiah, but as time goes on, they will have fewer and fewer people who will agree with them.


19 posted on 01/26/2009 10:43:31 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Dissent Is Patriotic)
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To: ClearCase_guy
In every aspect of governance Obama has shown so far that he is the most left wing liberal President ever. What would the crazy left wing lunatics want him to do to prove that he is the most liberal President ever? He is doing exactly what they want and more.
20 posted on 01/26/2009 10:44:33 AM PST by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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