Are you a donating member of the Hillary Gomama Cult yet?

[FrenchieCat]

One of those who worships at the altar of this woman--




They look "normal"....



But are they?

:shrug:

[Bluebear]

1. Take the WHOLE tablet. Really.

[FrenchieCat]

2. I thought it was you swallowing your own bitter pill.

[Bluebear]

8. You're embarrassing yourself. Really you are.

[SammyWinstonJack]

53. Waaay past that.

[rodeodance]

55. NO, your camp owns that trophy.

[LittleClarkie]

4. Blue or red?

I hear that's important.

[davidinalameda]

6. what's the red pill

I know what the little blue pill is (and thank goodness I don't need it!)

[LittleClarkie]

12. If you take the blue pill, all will remain as it is.

If you take the red pill, you wake up.

[newmajority]

28. And though she's not really ill, there's a little yellow pill

she goes running for the shelter
of her mother's little helper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Hf_OclE8U

[Bluebear]

10. I am not in need of little blue pills, thank you!

:toast:

[LittleClarkie]

14. Ah, the red then.

Good choice

[davidinalameda]

21. I'm so damn confused

I'm going to bed

[racaulk]

61. It's a joke about "The Matrix"

The main character Neo was given a choice of taking a red pill or a blue pill. One pill would allow him to "wake up" and see reality for what it is, the other pill would allow him to remain in the matrix blissfully unaware that anything is wrong.

But I don't remember which pill did what. :shrug:

[davidinalameda]

74. that makes sense

I thought it was a White Rabbit reference at first and then people were talking about viagra

maybe it was just me talking about viagra

who knows

:bounce:

[NMMNG]

30. Yeah. The Soma in the Kool-Aid must not be full-strength tonight.

:yoiks:

[LostinVA]

37. Two would be better

[Bluebear]

38. P.S. I'm homophobic . . .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4450684&mesg_id=4450936

[LostinVA]

41. I just saw and responded

[davidinalameda]

3. that pink outfit screams cult

but the Marine corp guy is pretty cute

[angie_love]

5. You mean the cult thats pro-war? Nah

I'm an individual who saw that war for what it really was. I didn't buy into the WMD's deal and I was in my 20's. Shocking that a senator with so much experience couldn't see through it. She believed Bush. Big mistake. Big disappointment

[cbayer]

7. Reject. nt

[clydefrand]

9. I don't worship at any person's alter or for that matter any deity's

alter. But if you can't say something nice about our candidate, why don't you leave it alone? What are you suggesting about the people in this photo?

[LittleClarkie]

18. Because "leave no attack unanswered"

That is why.

[Bluebear]

33. Shouldn't the answers make sense or be clever at least?

[Maddy McCall]

11. True colors.

They always shine through.

You've shown yours tonight...and proved me right yet again.

[Bluebear]

17. What is she insinuating about a perfectly lovely looking family, anyhow?

[Maddy McCall]

24. By her logic: she's "jealous"

Right?

:shrug:

[Bluebear]

26. Riiiiight!

[FrenchieCat]

22. You have only proven that you find yourself superior

for whatever reason...as there are none that I can see. :shrug:

[Maddy McCall]

36. I don't think that at all. I just find your hypocrisy laughable.

You're all pissy because some newspaper wrote an article about Obama's "Cult of Personality." That was the NEWSPAPER'S words. Someone posted it here.

You were all offended because of that, and threw a hissy fit, claiming it was wrong to call Obama's supporters a "cult." I gently reminded you that you did the same thing in 2004, as a Clark supporter, directed at Dean supporters.

And then you went ape-fuckin'-shit ballistic.

Full-out meltdown mode.

And started calling the Democratic party a "cult." And Hillary supporters a "cult."

Althewhile offended that anyone would say that about Obama supporters and denying that you'd ever called Dean supporters the same thing.

There's the blow-by-blow of what happened tonight.

It has nothing to do with me being "superior." It has everything to do with your hypocrisy and the daily escalation of your nastiness.

[Bluebear]

40. I could even take nastiness if it were clever.

But these mean-spirited tirades make absolutely no sense, from her "Pat Boone" thread on down. How anybody thinks she could be helping her candidate is beyond me.

[LostinVA]

50. I knew I shouldn't have watched so much TV last night

[xmas74]

64. Isn't tonight the new season of Survivor?

And another new episode of Lost?

Damn, we're going to miss some fantastic fights on the boards tonight!

[LostinVA]

67. OMG -- SURVIVOR STARTS TONIGHT?!

That and "Lost" back to back!!!!!!!

[xmas74]

68. I thought I read in the morning paper that it started tonight.

I'm looking at the Charter cable listing as we speak to verify...

Hells yeah! 7 pm CST. Title of the eppie is "You Guys Are Dumber Than You Look".

Description:
Ten ultra-fans of the show compete against 10 former castaways amid the Rock Islands of Palau, Micronesia. The fans and favorites are divided into two separate tribes. Upon arriving, the fans have no idea they will be playing against former contestants.

Did you see the list of the repeats playing the game?

Oh, and the title of the new eppie of Lost is "Confirmed Dead"

This is going to be a great night for tv viewing! I'm buying popcorn and soda just for tonight!

[LostinVA]

69. OMFGOMFGOMFG -- "Survivoe" sounds GREAT

*SWOON*

Haruka will have to raeda book for two hours.

[xmas74]

70. I'm sure she'll be fine.

I'm just superexcited about having Cirie, Jonathan and Yao Man back. The others-meh. Eliza-I know Twila IRL and I hope that Eliza gets booted first time out.

[lvx35]

13. Is there any context for this shit at all?

I used to walk into this place and hear actual commentary. Now its just this nonstop bullshit.

[TankLV]

19. another fucking SORE LOSER!!!

is all...

[Name removed]

35. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[FrenchieCat]

23. Same reasons that accuses Obama supporters of being

"cult-like".

None.

[Straight Shooter]

47. "While we breathe, we will hope." Help us, BO-wan-kenobi. You're our only hope.

:eyes:

[SammyWinstonJack]

54. ...

:spray:

[MonkeyFunk]

15. Thank you for your efforts

to make this forum a bigger cesspool than it already is.

[FrenchieCat]

25. Like you have'nt donated!

I say HA!

[MonkeyFunk]

44. I have never once started a thread

attacking a candidate. Not once.

And if I did, I guarantee it would be a helluva lot more clever than the shit you post.

[clydefrand]

16. speaking of normal...are you?

What is your point?

[FrenchieCat]

27. Where's your sense of humor?

I'm sure you have one.

Isn't this a riot?

[emilyg]

49. The riot is all in you.

[thunder rising]

20. There are rehab centers where they can be deprogrammed, but it's like being cured of gayness.

[FrenchieCat]

29. Close, but no cigar.

[Bluebear]

31. 'but it's like being cured of gayness' - where did that come from?

[Name removed]

34. Deleted sub-thread

Sub-thread removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[MoonRiver]

32. A more relevant question is, have you gone over the deep end?

And I also remember you from 2004. I adored and supported Clark, and was a member of the secret DUers for Clark group. I did like the cheerleader logo.

[Qanisqineq]

39. how obnoxious

:wtf:

[Sapphocrat]

42. "One of those who worships at the altar of this woman"

That's fucking rich, Little Miss Kool-Aid Passer-Outer! :rofl:

[bridgit]

43. I know, I know; the American flag is a source of angst for many even here @ DU, but maybe...

just suggestifying, if Barrack were to speak in something other than 6 to 9 word bursts, even The Kennedy Machine standing up from MA to CA (Plus Kerry and a whole bunch more in between) could have helped. You know? Push all those applause lines together :shrug:

[Straight Shooter]

45. Projection, FC.

It's a sad thing to witness.

[Name removed]

46. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Solon]

48. Didn't you join a cult yourself a while ago?

[cali]

51. ugly flamebait.

sad that you can't stop yourself from doing this. You don't like it when it's done to Obama, but do it plenty to Clinton and her supporters.

[rodeodance]

57. my my--one of few times i have agreed with you. Thank you.

[bigwillq]

52. There threads are always productive.

:eyes:

[Bluebear]

72. :)

[rodeodance]

56. Take your complaining up with the Sacramento Bee--they wrote the story. Here it is:

Forum Name General Discussion: Primaries
Topic subject COME TO OBAMA! "Obama volunteers... share personal conversion stories"
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4445389#4445389
4445389, COME TO OBAMA! "Obama volunteers... share personal conversion stories"
Posted by bidenista on Wed Feb-06-08 06:23 PM

Not a cult. Nuh-uh. Definitely not:

Obama basic training
Volunteers told to share personal conversion stories with voters - not policy views.
By John Hill

In a storefront on Q Street in Sacramento, Kim Mack told a crowd that spilled out onto the sidewalk how she came to back Barack Obama. With a son serving in the Iraq war, which she opposed, Mack was looking for a like-minded presidential candidate. She was impressed by the Illinois senator's books. But the clincher came on March 17, when she met the Democratic contender face to face. She describes how he lit up the room with his wide smile, shook her hand and thanked her for volunteering.

"He looked at me, and the look in his eyes was worth 1,000 words," said Mack, now a regional field organizer. Obama hugged her and whispered something in her ear – she was so thrilled she doesn't remember what it was.

Then Mack brought home the point of her story for the crowd of 100 or so eager volunteers, sipping coffee and watching a PowerPoint presentation in the Obama campaign office on a recent Saturday.

"Did that make more impact on you than if I had talked about his health care plan or his stance on the environment?" she asked.

On the verge of a hectic few weeks leading to Super Tuesday, the crucial Feb. 5 multistate primary including California's, Mack wanted to drill home one of the campaign's key strategies: telling potential voters personal stories of political conversion. She urged volunteers to hone their own stories of how they came to Obama – something they could compress into 30 seconds on the phone.

"Work on that, refine that, say it in the mirror," she said. "Get it down."...

More: http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/649427.html


This story rates 5 out of 5 on the Little Kool-Aid Dude scale:



----

Edited to add:

Even some Obama supporters are horrified. Over at TPM:

Excuse me, but this sounds more like a cult than a political campaign. The language used here is the language of evangelical Christianity – the Obama volunteers speak of "coming to Obama" in the same way born-again Christians talk about "coming to Jesus."

But he's not Jesus! He's not going to magically enable us to transcend the bitter partisanship that is tearing this country apart. And even if he is elected, in no way will that show that somehow we have "gotten beyond" race.

The Obama campaign's instruction to their volunteers to steer clear of policy questions. How can we truly bring about real political change if the movement the Obama people are building is devoid of ideological content, content merely to mouth gauzy generalities about "coming together" and "yes we can"? Such a movement becomes a cult or personality rather than engine for social justice and political transformation. And personality cults can be a huge turnoff to those who are not already drinking the Kool-Aid.

More: http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/05/barack_obama_is_not_jesus/#more
C

[Catchawave]

58. I believe Wesley Clark is ?

Nice :eyes:

[rodeodance]

59. Guardian (UK): "Perhaps I should join the [Obama] cult"

The word has spread across the pond.



Forum Name General Discussion: Primaries
Topic subject Guardian (UK): "Perhaps I should join the cult"
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4448476#4448476
4448476, Guardian (UK): "Perhaps I should join the cult"
Posted by bidenista on Wed Feb-06-08 08:44 PM

Buzzmachine.com's Jeff Jarvis, writing in the UK's Guardian, has some remarks about the Obama "movement":



Perhaps I should join the cult

Jeff Jarvis
February 6, 2008 6:10 PM

The contrast in Barack Obama's and Hillary Clinton's campaigns - and their voters - is starkly illustrated in their Super Tuesday speeches. Obama is the orator, Clinton the manager. Obama's crowd behaves like a devoted cult. Clinton's like a well-behaved class. Obama has succeeded - with considerable help from the media - at portraying his campaign as a movement, while Clinton's is, well, a campaign.

My problem with his campaign is also illustrated in this speech. Though he catalogues his issues - Iraq, health care, the standard list - his message is made up of little more than stock marketing taglines. He's not so much running for office as branding himself.

Listen to last night's medley of his greatest hits: "Our time has come... Our movement is real... Change is coming to America... We are more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and always will be the United States of America... This time can be different.... Not this time. Not this year.... This time we have to seize the moment.... This fall, we owe the American people a real choice.... We have to choose between change and more of the same, we have to choose between looking backwards and looking forward. We have to choose between our future and our past.... We can do this... We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.... Yes we can.... Yes we can...." Cue crowd chanting: "Yes we can..."

His supporters, including many New York friends of mine, buy his image and believe he is less political and that he is indeed different. I think he's more political and his campaign is the greatest example of the selling of the president I've yet seen. To state it harshly, I say that relying on these stock phrases - believing that we are going to swallow empty oratory about "change" punctuated with chants of "yes we can" - is a cynical political act...

More: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jeff_jarvis/2008/02/the_power_of_oratory.html


Edited to add:

Here's a cute visual aid...

[Donnachaidh]

60. get OFF the couch already!

obsess? Naaaaaaahhhh.... :rofl:

[racaulk]

62. If I were an Obama supporter, I would be embarrassed to be in the same camp with you.

Almost every single OP you start in GDP is just stupid, and this one is no exception. You seem to think that you're making Clinton supporters look bad, but in reality, you're just making yourself look bad.

And FWIW, no, I'm not a Clinton supporter either.

[pnwmom]

63. As I said yesterday, she's the archetypal Witch.

Of course she has followers.

:sarcasm:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4404921&mesg_id=4404921

[goldcanyonaz]

65. How's Clinton winning California by over 400,000 votes workin out for ya?

:rofl:

[TankLV]

76. Ouch! That's got to hurt...

the obamababies are using the same math as bush...

[jlake]

66. Yes. I sent her my car payment money.

I'm going to work overtime to keep my car.

[ileus]

71. I donate to no one...I have bills to pay.

[calimary]

77. I donate to no one, either - except those who push IMPEACHMENT.

But guys - this sort of cult stuff is NOT HELPFUL.

NOT HELPFUL.




NOT HELPFUL!!!!!!!


But then again, I guess you're okay with the bad guys getting over themselves, reuniting, and marching lockstep straight back to the White House in November, 'eh? While we Democrats are all still busily shooting each other in the feet.

WE ALL HAVE TO GROW UP AND DROP THIS SHIT. OKAY???!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??

Maybe those DUers whose primaries have already happened, and they've already voted (I include myself here) should SHUT UP about the Obama V Clinton stuff. The longer it goes on, the more poisonous it is. Unless, of course, you really don't give a damn whether we can win in November? Maybe it's just that important to fight among friend rather than taking it to the FRICKIN' ENEMY???????

[rodeodance]

73. MASS was SWEET

[TankLV]

75. not to mention NEW YORK and CALIFORNIA...

obama won only the SMALL states - in other words - AIR...

[citizen snips]

78. ...

:shrug: