The Obama Cult

American Thinker.com ^ | May 21, 2017 | Richard Terrell

[Kaslin]

Do you remember president Obama's eight scandal-free years? This question, posted on an acquaintance's Facebook page, drew my astonished attention. My immediate "LOL" response received a reprimand for expressing "disrespect." Among other responses to this lead question were rapturous expressions of "love" and even "worship" for The Great Leader Barack Obama. As the furor ignited by the Trump election continues to burn and blow, the melancholy longing for an alleged Golden Age is arising. The longing is deep, and accompanied by swooning ecstasy at the reappearance to public life of Mr. Barack Obama.

I suspect that such expressions are representative of a significant population. This occasion, in which I drew the rebuke of some of the faithful also offering comments, refreshes the perception that there is in America a continuing embrace of a bizarre personality cult that has found a deep resonance within the nation's political culture. This cult was manifest as early as Barack Obama's 2007-2008 candidacy and is unique in its promotion and protection by major cultural institutions. Apparently, it did not end with a change of national administrations; rather, it continues in the form of retrospective longing for imagined wonders of a lost decade of grace, intelligence, and integrity led by one who serves as receptor for spiritual and emotional projections.

The Cult of Obama made its initial appearance with graphic designer Shepard Fairey's famous "HOPE" poster, during Obama's initial manifestation as a presidential candidate. The artistic imagery draws upon a tradition of totalitarian art celebrating the persons of fascist or communist political messiahs of the past. The linkage to the concept of "Hope" significantly draws upon a spiritual absolute.

[combat_boots]

0bama was introduced in his campaign by a video of a big-breasted white woman singing, “I love Barack 0bama.”

[hal ogen]

Lunatics. Society used to place those mentally ill in institutions. The LIB idiots stopped that in the 60’s because they knew what was in their future.

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[ifinnegan]

The Cult of Obama was/is scary.

It was so obvious even the Economist did an article on it during the 2008 election season.

But liberal Dems refuse to see it or are part of it.

[major-pelham]

Amazing their failure to recognize how inept Obama was.

[RoosterRedux]

It's not really the Obama cult.

It's actually the post-modernism/communism/socialism cult.

Obama just happened to be their first genuine candidate.

They have others in the works.

Their biggest problem is that they are going against reality itself.

In fact, the basic principal of post-modernism is that its adherents believe they can define reality. Up is down, girl is boy and boy is girl. No genders, no right or wrong...no sin.

And there is the fly in the ointment.

Reality "is"...but post-modernism wants to RE-define the meaning of the word "is." Like Bill Clinton, post-modernists believe they can defeat reality by re-defining the single most profound and fundamental word.

BTW, this is why God defined Himself as "I am."

He is "The Is."

He defines IT.

He defines "IS."

HE IS.

[Gay State Conservative]

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to understand that *at least* for the rest of his life our Community Organizer-In-Chief will be seen by the usual suspects as God-like...in the typical Rat Party atheist kind of way.

[ifinnegan]

The Obama cult (2008 in the Economist)

“Mr Obama has inspired more passionate devotion than any modern American politician. People scream and faint at his rallies. Some wear T-shirts proclaiming him “The One” and noting that “Jesus was a community organiser”. An editor at Newsweek described him as “above the country, above the world; he’s sort of God.” He sets foreign hearts fluttering, too. A Pew poll published this week finds that 93% of Germans expect him to do the right thing in world affairs. Only 14% thought that about Mr Bush.”

http://www.economist.com/node/14082968

[beethovenfan]

Brain much smaller than her udders.

[RoosterRedux]

Jimmah Cartah released the insane in Georgia. Turned them out to the streets.

Liberals are acting like a mob. They have a mob mentality.

There is a unity to their work.

It is a human phenomenon.

Read this to understand what is going on...Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - free on Kindle.

BTW, there is a single power behind this.

Name the evil one if you can. That is who is behind this.

[clearcarbon]

"The Obama Cult"

Cows and worshipers of cows.

[Intolerant in NJ]

My immediate "LOL" response received a reprimand for expressing "disrespect"....Eight years of scandal-free Obama administration - the only disrespect shown here is for the truth.....

[Tallguy]

“People scream and faint at his rallies. Some wear T-shirts proclaiming him “The One”...”

Must have been the same homely lib-girls at the Javitz Center crying their eyes out in shocked disbelief when Saint Hillary went down in an epic electoral landslide defeat.

[vpintheak]

I was arguing with a gent on Facebook about this yesterday. He claimed Christianity, and loved Owebowma. When I disagreed on a single point, abortion and his adamant defense of it, the gent went off on me and accused me of being a liar, hater, and a few other things.
I just ended it with I know Owebowma by his fruits. I got dropped from the thread!

[ronnie raygun]

mental

[adorno]

B.O.

Big Zero.

Cult? Well, even Hitler and Mohammed still have cults. So, why not another decadent group of people, dedicated to worshiping evil? Even the devil has a religion.

[Peter ODonnell]

I remember Obama’s scandal-free eight years, it was 1961 to 1969, well he did steal that curry from the street vendor in Djakarta.

[DoughtyOne]

The Leftist Quest Revealed:,

stage 01: You see yourself as a new age brainiac, poised to discover the secrets of the universe, nobody else found before you.

stage 02: You are mesmerized by the Leftist carni side show barker, ooo, it's so mezmerizing.

stage 03: Before you know it, you've fallen (in) for all of it - looking up, the entry point seems farther and farther away.

stage 04: You keep thinking to yourself, "Haven't I seen this all before?" You never ask it out loud.

stage 05: At the center of this universe is a dead end, no way out, no further enlightenment, just a place where you think you've finally arrived.

And you have arrived, it's just not where you thought you would.

We refer to these as the lost years (decades).

[Fred Hayek]

I remember this while living in Minnesota. The adulation given to Obama rivaled that of Kim worship in Norkland.