Are people who ask if Obama is the messiah delusional or political hacks?

[RainDog]

Poll question: Are people who ask if Obama is the messiah delusional or political hacks?

If various people on this board ask if Obama is the messiah, and present this question in such a way to insinuate that any support for Obama is messianic fervor, how would you define those people?

[joeybee12]

1. Very sound and logical poll...

...I hope this gets all their panties wadded up.

[RainDog]

4. only trying to live up to the glory of U.S. media these days

[Pierre.Suave]

2. All of the above...

Why not?

[RainDog]

5. a very reasonable response. why not, indeed?

[Uncle Joe]

3. I've noticed whenever a political leader becomes extremely popular, they start up with the messiah

or cult crap. I believe this is an innate fear of the beast coming in to play from Biblical lore combined with the powers that be pulling those emotional strings whenever they perceive a champion of the people rising. The powers that be view this as a threat against their own status quo domination of the society.

[RainDog]

8. and one of those "it's okay if you're a republican" moments

[Alexander]

6. They're angry Shillbots who are bitter that we finally have another popular Democrat.

[RainDog]

7. bzzzzzt. sorry. that was not a choice.

you have been assigned to inflatable date guard duty.

that is all.

[Pierre.Suave]

12. "inflatable date guard duty"

F'in BRILLIANT freeper detector...

Give them teh duty, come back 2 minutes later to see what is going on.


Either

Nothing: Democrat.

or

Something: Freeper.

Freakin BRILLIANT.

:rofl:

[BigDDem]

9. Present

[RainDog]

15. and accounted for?

[Yossariant]

10. Ya need "VOTERS" as one of yer choices.

[RainDog]

13. my poll, my choices. you can roll your own, tho.

:hi:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

11. Where is "Praise Lord Obama?"

:grr:

[RainDog]

14. I dunno, where?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

17. Third base.

Vaudeville? :shrug:

[RainDog]

19. what's on second

[Yossariant]

16. My Journey to Obama. Coming to Obama. How I Found Obama.

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."

She told the volunteers that potential voters would no doubt confront them with policy questions. Mack's direction: Don't go there.

http://www.sacbee.com/111/v-print/story/649427.html

[RainDog]

20. wow. now I'm realllly scared.

a political hack trying to win votes with religious bullshit. I think I'll just stay home because, of course, the majority of americans are JUST LIKE THAT.... and no Hillary supporters are, of course. Except for the miracle stories of her winning the democratic candidacy, of course. No shortage of poltical b.s. in American life, is there?

[Yossariant]

22. BREAKING! Most VOTERS do not post at DU.

[RainDog]

23. and they don't post on my poll!!! and you don't have to either!!

my post referred to posting here on DU. It's satire. but don't let that stop your outrage!

hey, knock yourself out!

like this-

[Yossariant]

35. I'm posting in your thread, not your poll. And if you don't like it - too bad - look in the mirror

and take your own advice.

:hi:

[RainDog]

39. loll. post away. want a ticket for the inflatable date?

[PoliticalAmazon]

18. You left out "desperate and pathetic." n/t

[RainDog]

21. bzzzzzt. sorry. that was not a choice.

you have to take the inflatable date out for a latte, you liberal!

[OzarkDem]

24. Not really a messiah

More like a televangelist.

[RainDog]

41. yeah, good rhetorical speakers are scary. just ask bill

[OzarkDem]

43. Manipulative rhetoric with no substance

There's no there there. Obama is a preacher, nothing more.

[RainDog]

44. okay

so your answer in the poll would be no. one.

[depakid]

25. No worse than the Hillary is __________ folks

One thing I find amusing is that some of the posters who object most strenuously to characterizations about Obama, the campaign or its supporters also tend to be the ones who post the nastiest epithets about Hillary.

Same is true about Republicans, btw, except that they tend to be even more over the top- whine even louder when it comes back their way.

Seems to have become a common cultural norm in 21st Century America.

[RainDog]

28. feel free to make your own poll!

ask about some inane accusation made about Hillary. go for it!

[depakid]

34. Point is, it's lame when anyone posts these sorts of things

I know people need to vent, and better here than other places, but still....

[RainDog]

36. because no one posts lame things here otherwise, right?

lol.

just hide the thread, you'll feel better.

[GoldieAZ49]

26. Gee, where did anyone get that idea...oh yeah, from OBAMA

From the campaign trail:
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/dominic-lawson/dominic-lawson-obama-must-beware-of-turning-into-a-cult-787298.html

Obama has a stock line which seems to play straight into the notion that he is an instrument of the divine. To a number of audiences, he has declared: "My job is be so persuasive that if there's anybody left out there who is still not sure whether they will vote, or is still not clear who they will vote for, that a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down on you, you will experience an epiphany ... and you will suddenly realise that you must go to the polls and vote for Obama."

To be fair to Obama, this is said in a manner which just leaves open the idea that he is not being entirely serious. Yet I don't believe that those applauding this riff see it as elevated irony – and it is slightly creepy even as a joke. Perhaps it isn't a joke at all, but completely sincere: Obama's speeches are studded with religious rhetoric. For example, last October he told an audience of 4,000 that he hoped to be "an instrument of God" and that "I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth".

[bunnies]

27. Yawn.

Hillary feels the holy spirit with her everyday.

[GoldieAZ49]

29. I find him to be a bore also

But after 8 years of Bush and his claim to a direct connection of God, what is one more POTUS that thinks he is "an istrument of God"?

If you liked Bush, your gonna love Obama!

[RainDog]

31. you should take this act to Vegas!

take my wife.. please! ba-dum- ching!

[RainDog]

30. When I wrapped my arms around the tv screen, Obama cured me of vaginal congestion.

honest.

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[RainDog]

37. lol.

I thought Lieberman had already corner the "sore loserman" name, but you coulda been a contenda. buh-bye, waste of my time!

[Swamp Rat]

33. "Where can I get an inflatable date?"

:rofl: :spank:

I had to vote that option. I'm desperate. :D

[RainDog]

38. You'll have to wait till GoldieAZ blahblah is finished

because, tho goldie doesn't have to post on this thread, she insists on doing so, so... the only thing I can figure out is that she must really like the doll.

[stillcool]

40. Hacks...same old same old...

part of the kool-aid drinking cult, Rezko, Ayers, Reverend Wright, Michigan and Florida, Hussein, scary black man thing.

[RainDog]

42. you forgot about anti-christ

except I think he was already in office for nearly 8 years.