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| Obama's cult of personality |
| 2008-11-10 |
| Peter Hitchens, Mail Online Anyone would think we had just elected a hip, skinny and youthful replacement for God, with a plan to modernise Heaven and Hell – or that at the very least John Lennon had come back from the dead. The swooning frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama as President of the United States must be one of the most absurd waves of self-deception and swirling fantasy ever to sweep through an advanced civilisation. At least Mandela-worship – its nearest equivalent – is focused on a man who actually did something. I really don’t see how the Obama devotees can ever in future mock the Moonies, the Scientologists or people who claim to have been abducted in flying saucers. This is a cult like the one which grew up around Princess Diana, bereft of reason and hostile to facts. If you can believe that this undistinguished and conventionally Left-wing machine politician is a sort of secular saviour, then you can believe anything. He plainly doesn’t believe it himself. His cliche-stuffed, PC clunker of an acceptance speech suffered badly from nerves. It was what you would expect from someone who knew he’d promised too much and that from now on the easy bit was over. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #6 Putting Peter Hitchens together with his brother Christopher is like throwing water on a grease fire. As for Christopher, when Palin showed up he decided she was a fundie and went completely out of his mind. Too bad, I was beginning to like the guy. |
| Posted by: KBK 2008-11-10 23:53 |
| #5 In other news, President-elect Obama farted. Reporters who were present all noted that it smelled like pot-pouri. |
| Posted by: Your MSM All Obama All the Time 2008-11-10 22:46 |
| #4 Cult of Personality 'When cheering for someone turns into adulation, something is wrong. Excessive adulation is indicative of a personality cult. The cult of personality is often created when the general population is discontent. A charismatic leader can seize the opportunity and project himself as an agent of change and a revolutionary leader. Often, people, tired of the status quo, do not have the patience to examine the nature of the proposed change. All they want is change.' |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2008-11-10 17:19 |
| #3 Well. It appears somebody is... http://www.zazzle.com/1_20_2013_the_end_of_a_terror_bumpersticker-128621607703801425 |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-11-10 16:22 |
| #2 Anybody putting out 1/20/13 bumper stickers yet? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-11-10 16:12 |
| #1 Extremely well done. Nice to see someone finally remark on the striking banality of Obama's rhetoric. Might have to track this guy's columns. A tiny speck of light in the galactic darkness of the media and the public square. |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2008-11-10 13:39 |