A brilliant speaker, Mr Obama often uses the rhetorical trick of rapidly repeating words and slogans and using catchy phrases that tend to attract young Americans, while having very little substance.
Favourites include the call: “We are the hope of the future. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
Dr Sean Wilentz, a Princeton historian and stern critic of the current administration of George W.Bush, said: “What’s troubling about the campaign is that it’s gone beyond hope and change to redemption.”
When Oprah Winfrey endorsed Mr Obama in Iowa last month she proclaimed: “I believe he is The One.”
At the campaign’s “Camp Obama” - a training programme run ahead of primaries in key states - volunteers are schooled to avoid talking to voters about policy, and instead tell of how they “came” to Obama, just as born-again Christians talk about “coming to Jesus.”
New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote: “Obama’s people are so taken with their messiah that soon they’ll be selling flowers at airports and arranging mass weddings.”
Obama fever has also broken out on the internet - and a rash of new sites has opened, poking gentle fun at the senator’s over-the-top campaign.
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“We started the AIDS virus”? Heh.
Via Hot Air, where AP posted it in response to the left’s outrage over Hagee and McCain. He writes:
Frankly, I consider this to be an even more important issue than Hagee. After all, McCain doesn’t visit Hagee’s church on a weekly basis. There’s no connection there, no spiritual relationship. Obama, however, does have a relationship - and a very important one at that - with his pastor, who you just heard preaching hatred of America basically.
It’s not politically correct to say this, but I’m going to say it nonetheless: saying “I don’t agree with everything he ever said” shouldn’t be enough. This pastor plays a very big role in Obama’s life, and he lets himself be influenced by him heavily. He and his wife often use religious rhetoric which means that they don’t seem to be all that much in favor of a 100% separation of religion and state.
No, this should be an issue. Obama should completely distance himself from his Pastor.
He won’t, simply no one will push him to do what he should do (black racism isn’t considered to be a true problem by many liberals).
And no, this isn’t an attempted smear, this is truly what I think of this issue. If Obama was white, and his preacher as well, and you would have replaced black with white and vice versa, the entire media would be all over Obama. In fact, his campaign would have been dead already.
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