About Barack Obama's supposed "cult"

[Wetzelbill]

From the online version of Webster's dictionary:
Cult:
5 a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b: the object of such devotion c: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion

Note "c".

"a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion"

1.5 million donors isn't a cult. To paraphrase James Carville, it's a political party. I'll even go further and say it's a movement.

Millions of votes and donors and winning the presidential nomination of a major political party doesn't constitute the leader of a cult.

It constitutes the next President of the United States of America.

[anonymous171]

1. You, good sir, are correct.

[Wetzelbill]

7. every once in a while I pull a Forrest Gump and walk right into something

You know how it is. :)

[mcctatas]

2. But I always wanted to belong to a cult...

spoilsport! :(

[Wetzelbill]

4. well, you always have my campaign

:)

[eridani]

3. It's especially not a "cult" if its purported "messiah"

--persists in telling his followers that nothing is going to change unless they stay organizer or involved.

[Wetzelbill]

6. right on

Cult leaders aren't supposed to encourage their followers to actually think, right?

[cliffordu]

9. DING DING DING We have a winner. That's exactly right.

[Snarkoleptic]

5. hope is bad and unwarranted at this point...go back to work at your 2nd or 3rd job.

</sarcasm off>

[Wetzelbill]

8. your name gives your snark away

:)

[NewHampshireDem]

10. Oh, great ... what am I supposed to do with all these lima beans ...

that look like Obama?

[Wetzelbill]

12. psh.. lima beans

The cool cultists collect potato chips that look like him. You act as if you have never even sifted through his garbage or anything.

[Zynx]

11. Not to nitpick, but in the PRC, Mao had a personality cult of tens of millions.

Call it what you will, that was a cult. I don't think size matters. Mentallity does. That being said, I don't view the Obama movement as a cult, though certain participants are borderline nuts.

[Wetzelbill]

13. hey I just go by the official definition

I'm not trying to expand on anything else and get all elitist or anything. :)