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2010-10-12 -Lurid Crime Tales-
The Faintings At Obama's Speeches Are Staged
Here's the obvious pattern:
1) Obama speaks.

2) A person is so overcome with being in Obama's presence that the person faints. Usually more than one person faints, often many.

3) Obama pauses his speech to alert paramedics and EMTs to the fainting person or people.

4) Obama asks if anyone has water and then offers his own bottle of water.

5) Obama offers medical advice (i.e. give the fainted person some room to breathe, get the person some water, make room for the paramedics)

6) Obama pronounces the fainter as fine. How would Obama know that? That person could have had a heart attack, but somehow Obama knew these people were all okay.

7) At the most recent fainting episode in Maryland on October 7, 2010, the temperature was 74 degrees. Yet reports had two dozen people fainting during that speech. How is that possible? This was a speech to young college kids.

Does anyone remember people fainting at speeches being delivered by other Presidents -- much less the epidemic of faintings that happen at Obama's speeches?

James Taranto of the The Wall Street Journal in 2008 raised the issue, cataloging instances of fainting at Obama's speeches that looked suspicious even way back then. Here's part of Taranto's report:

Hartford, Conn., Feb. 4, 2008. "And when a woman appeared to faint in the standing-only VIP section in front of the podium, Obama paused his speech for over a minute as he directed the crowd to make way for an EMT team and tossed a bottle of water from the stage," reported the Yale Daily News.
Seattle, Feb. 8, 2008. "Climate change, the Iraq war and Obama tossing a bottle of water to a woman about to faint all received big cheers," MSNBC.com reported. "As Obama told the crowd to part so that the woman in question could leave and called for help, a young girl in the crowd shouted out, 'What a man!' The audience roared with laughter (although the press that has seen this happen before rolled its eyes)."

Obama knows he and his party are in trouble, so is resorting to his old tricks again -- trying to reignite the old magic.

So these faintings are all part of the act and are scripted on Obama's teleprompter.

This also appears to be part of Obama's broader effort to set himself up as some kind of quasi-religious or Messianic figure. It's the kind of egocentric, self-aggrandizing behavior that's straight out of the tyrant's handbook.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-10-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 People fainted at Beatles and Elvis concerts. Some folks are a bit air headed to begin with, it's not too much of a stretch to think true believers might get overwhelmed by their own diety in person.
Posted by rjschwarz 2010-10-12 00:53||   2010-10-12 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 rjschwartz, people? No, just a specific segment--all femalians. The breezy types, air goes in through one ear, goes out through another.
Posted by twobyfour 2010-10-12 01:50||   2010-10-12 01:50|| Front Page Top

#3 I've never fainted, but nauseated and bowel gas while watching him on teevee.... yes nearly every time.
Posted by Besoeker 2010-10-12 02:53||   2010-10-12 02:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Actually I think it's the result of his mere presence sucking the lifeforce out of those around him. Some people simply have less resistance.
Posted by CrazyFool 2010-10-12 05:42||   2010-10-12 05:42|| Front Page Top

#5 0 has missed his calling. He should have become a televangelist like Ernest Angley, shouting "Be Healed!" and clapping people on the forehead as they go down. The American Booboisie are still with us.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-10-12 08:25||   2010-10-12 08:25|| Front Page Top

#6 speaking of Elvis, everytime I see 0 on the tv I want to shoot it as well...
Posted by Broadhead6 2010-10-12 09:00||   2010-10-12 09:00|| Front Page Top

#7 My surprise-o-meter is on zero.
Posted by JFM 2010-10-12 10:53||   2010-10-12 10:53|| Front Page Top

#8 I am wondering if there isn't anything that is fake about teh 0ne.
Posted by DarthVader 2010-10-12 12:16||   2010-10-12 12:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Hey, maybe their bodies just suddenly noticed that their brains were AWOL, ever think of that?
Posted by mojo  2010-10-12 16:15||   2010-10-12 16:15|| Front Page Top

#10 That's assuming they have brains, mojo - which I doubt.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-10-12 18:40||   2010-10-12 18:40|| Front Page Top

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