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For some time, I have been wondering how Obama has managed to fool so many people. This past week, with his strange speeches at the Dem getaway, the Prayer Breakfast, and his pseech on Friday for the stimulus package, it struck me that something very unorthodox is going on. The hyperconfidence, the anger, the strange gestures—something was very unusual. I chalked it up to being “unPresidential” but it is something more sinister. NLP—neuro-linguistic programming, hypnosis, something is making rational people drool over this overrated clown. I found something that made sense to me: Zero is using hypnotic techniques in speaking...

Just in case anyone thinks that the reports of our new President Barack Hussein Obama using 70's style-mass-hypnosis techniques on his audiences are overblown, I came across a series of Barack Obama videos on an NLP training site. Apparently the experts agree not only that he's using it, but that he does it so well they can use his techniques to train others.

Barack Obama’s speeches contain the hypnosis techniques of Dr. Milton Erickson, M.D. who developed a form of “conversational” hypnosis that could be hidden in seemingly normal speech and used on patients without their knowledge for therapy purposes. Obama’s speeches intentionally contain: Obama’s techniques are the height of deception and psychological manipulation, remaining hidden because one must understand the science behind the language patterns in order to spot them. This document examines Obama’s speeches word by word, hand gesture by hand gesture, tone, pauses, body language, and proves his use of covert hypnosis intended only for licensed therapists on consenting patients....

http://www.pennypresslv.com/Obama%27s_Use_of_Hidden_Hypnosis_techniques_in_His_Speeches.pdf