The cult of Obama

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<p>momof2inca: Ditto. </p>

<p>(also ditto to your comment on the Obama supporter Derrick- what a class act).</p>

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<p>^^^</p>

<p>Good exposition, momof2inca. Anybody who has seen politicians prepare for debates knows that they are coached to deliver canned answers. It’s refreshing to see that Obama demonstrates thinking on his feet – though he undoubtedly prepares answers too.</p>

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<p>Clinton doesn’t debate. She espouses canned rhetoric.</p>

<p>Her favorite response to everything. “This country needs a President that will be ready on day one…blah blah blah”</p>

<p>She NEVER answers a direct question. I hope that Obama asks her why she didn’t release her tax returns and where she got the $5M? :wink: (He won’t.)</p>

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<p>“US history suggests that about every 80 years , a civic generation emerges to make over the country after a period of upheaval caused by the fervor of an idealist generation.
…this year civic-minded millennials, are coming of age…”</p>

<p>Today’s millennials look a lot like the GI generation, born between 1901-1924, which FDR described as having a “rendezvous with destiny”</p>

<p>Today’s millennials are the largest generation in US history…</p>

<p>From A NEW GENERATION PORTENDS POLITICAL UPHEAVEL-
Winograd and Hais.</p>

<p>Cult?? ok I say “the times they are a changin’”
call it what you like. But , bring it on</p>

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<p>The Cult of Obama: This article made me laugh:
<a href=“http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-stein8feb08,0,3418234.column[/url]”>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-stein8feb08,0,3418234.column&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>^^^^^^ Marite that is so funny.
" I want the man to hope all over me" LOL! </p>

<p>I think I get this Obama=the “Anti-Bush” ":slight_smile:
and, that’s why we are so enamored</p>

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<p>Hillary is a great conventional politician. She is intelligent and has good policies. She is solid. She is very good at playing the game of politics. She is fake just like most other conventional politicians are fake. </p>

<p>Until recently I was happy to go along with the ‘fake’ part. I figured it is just an extension of the “packaging” concept considered necessary to win elections. Candidates have to have the right clothes, right haircut, right tone, right accent, speed of speaking, body language etc. So why not also be scripted in the content of answers to standard questions? </p>

<p>What is so refreshing about the current election is that we don’t have to settle for “fake” candidates. Obama and John McCain are not fake. This is one of the big factors driving their appeal. The public seems to be getting weary of the fake. Fake is out. The new buzzword is “authentic”.</p>

<p>Edit: LOL about that latimes column!!! I remember that Being There movie. I don’t think we are in danger of a Peter Sellers in Obama with his resume. This is a very accomplished guy who just happens to be idealistic.</p>

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<p>“Obama and John McCain are not fake.”</p>

<p>I think you’re right about that–it explains the efforts to label Obama as fake (i.e., a “fairy tale”). I think the departure of Romney and the success of McCain also has something to do with voters being tired of that fake quality.</p>

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<p>Absolutely, and every single significant politician in the country is taking “authentic” classes even as we speak. They know that once they can fake authentic they can do anything…</p>

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<p>Marite, thanks for posting! I emailed the column to my kids and wanted to write, “Now why can’t YOUR mother be sensible like that mother?” I think I am embarrassing THEM, and they are for Obama too! I am wishing I could download the Obama songs onto my ipod! (can’t don’t have video. Oh. Maybe I should check and see if they have a non-video version…omg, I am an obamaphiliac)</p>

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<p>We are definitely embarrassing D.D who is a huge supporter of the entire Ron Paul platform.</p>

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<p>I had meetings near Seattle this morning. Every major highway tied up in all directions. 17,000 at Key Arena, maybe double that outside, and ten thousand turned around. Hillary, in the meantime, is a bit to the south of him, and it seems they are having to bus in supporters to break a thousand.</p>

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<p>Yes and 99% of them drove–, as usual everyone talks a good game–then they hop in their car do do what they have to do.</p>

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<p>mini: surely you exaggerate?</p>

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<p>No. And I was there this morning.</p>

<p>My d. reports that 50-70 kids from her high school cut school this morning and carpooled to Seattle - she hasn’t heard whether they had gotten in.</p>

<p>Radio reports are that the Greenwood bus was essentially turned into a “rally bus”.</p>

<p>Jane Huckabee was on the radio this morning. She was VERY good.</p>

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<p>From the Seattle Times</p>

<p>"Officials closed the entrances to KeyArena at about 11 this morning, turning away thousands who had gathered to hear presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama speak at noon.</p>

<p>Doors were locked after KeyArena reached its capacity of about 20,000, officials said. Those who made it inside were not allowed to leave because police wanted to keep those outside from pushing through the doors and forcing themselves in. People outside were banging on glass doors and windows of the arena, as police were trying to maintain peace.</p>

<p>Police sent officers outside into the crowd to push people away from the doors so that no one would get crushed or trampled.</p>

<p>Kathryn Hughes, a senior at Gig Harbor High School, got inside while her friend Hunter Burton, also a Gig Harbor senior, was outside, pressed against a KeyArena glass door.</p>

<p>Burton said he was “furious beyond words. Democracy should not be limited by a stadium’s capacity.”</p>

<p><a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004171983_webobama08m.html[/url]”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004171983_webobama08m.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>but barrons, I thought you approved of our reliance on oil. Come on, all the oil used to go see Obama today is good for business! And it was so cost-effective for the people who drove. </p>

<p>As for me, I’d love to see a massive government investment into creating great public transportation on the West Coast (excepting the Bay Area, which already has great public transportation).</p>

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<p>I got a chuckle out of that one. Even democracy needs to be limited by fire codes and building codes.</p>

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<p>Over 20,000 to see Obama in Washington, and Bill Clinton was campaigning at a small rally of about 250 at New Orleans’ Dillard University this morning…</p>

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<p>vicariousparent,
Yeah, and something called public safety, too. :)</p>