Barack Obama has a cult...

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d***@rocketmail.com

2008-10-27 19:50:32 UTC

I've been referring to Obama as a cult leader for some time, and if
you don't believe me you should visit San Francisco. Everywhere you
go is Obama. Obama posters, t-shirts, murals, stickers, pins, coffee
mugs, graffiti, and more. It's sort of like xmas with a black Santa.
The Obama cult is especially strong in the Haight-Ashbury district and
Castro Street, but local cells exist throughout the city and entire
state of California.

This is getting downright creepy. Obama offers no ideas that would
explain his wild popularity, it seems to be a cult of personality. At
the very least, Obama represents opposition to George W. Bush, but
that has transformed into a belief that Obama must be right. Stalin
opposed Hitler and vice-versa, but that didn't make the rival's
policies the correct ones. What will Obama do as president if he
thinks he is so popular that nothing can stop him?

thomas p.

2008-10-27 20:26:06 UTC

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Gosh, do you mean to say that in the middle of a national election one of
the candidates has his picture up all over the place? Why that is
positively unprecedented in US politcs. No doubt the other man is much more
circumspect.

Post by d***@rocketmail.com
This is getting downright creepy. Obama offers no ideas that would
explain his wild popularity, it seems to be a cult of personality. At
the very least, Obama represents opposition to George W. Bush, but
that has transformed into a belief that Obama must be right. Stalin
opposed Hitler and vice-versa, but that didn't make the rival's
policies the correct ones. What will Obama do as president if he
thinks he is so popular that nothing can stop him?

You are really weird.

Mark K. Bilbo

2008-10-30 02:40:32 UTC

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On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:26:06 +0100 in

Post by thomas p.

Gosh, do you mean to say that in the middle of a national election one
of the candidates has his picture up all over the place?

WHAAAAAAAAAAAT????

No way! Really?

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t***@gmail.com

2008-10-31 12:18:41 UTC

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Post by Mark K. Bilbo
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:26:06 +0100 in

Post by thomas p.

Gosh, do you mean to say that in the middle of a national election one
of the candidates has his picture up all over the place?

WHAAAAAAAAAAAT????
No way! Really?

It is hard to believe. What is the country coming to. The next thing
will be spots on televisionl.

Post by Mark K. Bilbo
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law with respect to religion and morality."
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Douglas Berry

2008-10-28 00:26:51 UTC

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On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:50:32 -0700 (PDT) ***@rocketmail.com
carved the following into the hard stone of alt.atheism

Gee, it's almost like we're an overwhelmingly liberal, democratic city
in the final weeks of a national election...

Actually, Stalin was allied with Hitler for a few years until Hitler
invaded Russia.

What he's going to do is lower taxes for 95% of US taxpayers.
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DanielSan

2008-10-28 00:32:20 UTC

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Post by Douglas Berry
carved the following into the hard stone of alt.atheism

Gee, it's almost like we're an overwhelmingly liberal, democratic city
in the final weeks of a national election...

I wonder what would happen if this person walked around the middle of
Mobile, AL right now. Think there'd be a few McCain stickers out?

Post by Douglas Berry

Actually, Stalin was allied with Hitler for a few years until Hitler
invaded Russia.
What he's going to do is lower taxes for 95% of US taxpayers.

Or, he's going to try to. I hope the Republicans won't continue their
obstructionist tactics then blame it on Obama's "ineffectiveness".

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Free Lunch

2008-10-28 00:38:37 UTC

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Post by DanielSan

Post by Douglas Berry
carved the following into the hard stone of alt.atheism

Gee, it's almost like we're an overwhelmingly liberal, democratic city
in the final weeks of a national election...

I wonder what would happen if this person walked around the middle of
Mobile, AL right now. Think there'd be a few McCain stickers out?

Post by Douglas Berry

Actually, Stalin was allied with Hitler for a few years until Hitler
invaded Russia.
What he's going to do is lower taxes for 95% of US taxpayers.

Or, he's going to try to. I hope the Republicans won't continue their
obstructionist tactics then blame it on Obama's "ineffectiveness".

All the tax cuts run out. If they obstruct, they are voting to return to
the Clinton tax rates.

d***@rocketmail.com

2008-10-29 02:26:43 UTC

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Someone else wrote...

Post by Douglas Berry
What he's going to do is lower taxes for 95% of US taxpayers.

Or, he's going to try to. I hope the Republicans won't continue their
obstructionist tactics then blame it on Obama's "ineffectiveness".

If Chairman Obama fails to keep his promises, it will be the fault of
reactionary Republican elements in the Politburo, and even renegade
Hillaristas who have been engaging in counter-revolutionary activities
ever since the Central Committee rejected Subcomandante Hillary's
nomination to lead the Party.

= = = = = = = = = = =

"‘Comrades,’ he said quietly, ‘do you know who is responsible for
this? Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown
our windmill? SNOWBALL!’ he suddenly roared in a voice of thunder.
‘Snowball has done this thing! In sheer malignity, thinking to set
back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion, this
traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of
nearly a year. Comrades, here and now I pronounce the death sentence
upon Snowball. ’Animal Hero, Second Class,’ and half a bushel of
apples to any animal who brings him to justice. A full bushel to
anyone who captures him alive!’"
-- Animal Farm

Thurisaz, Germanic barbarian

2008-10-28 04:15:15 UTC

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This is getting downright creepy. Obama offers no ideas that would
explain his wild popularity, it seems to be a cult of personality. At
the very least, Obama represents opposition to George W. Bush, but
that has transformed into a belief that Obama must be right. Stalin
opposed Hitler and vice-versa, but that didn't make the rival's
policies the correct ones. What will Obama do as president if he
thinks he is so popular that nothing can stop him?

Good question. Obama can hardly be the worse of the two main choices (how
much worse than shrubbenführer can it get? Oh that's right, the palin'
bitch...! *head desk* ), but what exactly does "better" mean here?

Of course I'm kind of far from the battlefield (yet I'm also in "Obama
country", considering how well-loved he is here in goo' ol' Germany), so I
may have missed some things... but what I do know about Obama and his
stated goals doesn't sound like it has very much substance aside from the
ever-malleable, kind of ill-defined term "change".

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But men shall mocking with mockery answer, and fraud with falsehood meet."
(The Poetic Edda)
Must have been written with fundies in mind...

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http://www.carcosa.de/nojebus

John Baker

2008-10-28 13:43:54 UTC

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Post by d***@rocketmail.com
I've been referring to Obama as a cult leader for some time, and if
you don't believe me you should visit San Francisco. Everywhere you
go is Obama. Obama posters, t-shirts, murals, stickers, pins, coffee
mugs, graffiti, and more. It's sort of like xmas with a black Santa.
The Obama cult is especially strong in the Haight-Ashbury district and
Castro Street, but local cells exist throughout the city and entire
state of California.
This is getting downright creepy. Obama offers no ideas that would
explain his wild popularity, it seems to be a cult of personality. At
the very least, Obama represents opposition to George W. Bush, but
that has transformed into a belief that Obama must be right. Stalin
opposed Hitler and vice-versa, but that didn't make the rival's
policies the correct ones. What will Obama do as president if he
thinks he is so popular that nothing can stop him?

Wow, pictures of a candidate for President are plastered all over the
place during a Presidential election campaign. Yes, that certainly is
strange...

Moron.

d***@rocketmail.com

2008-10-28 20:33:05 UTC

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Post by John Baker
Wow, pictures of a candidate for President are plastered all over the
place during a Presidential election campaign. Yes, that certainly is
strange...
Moron.

They remind me of Saddam murals and they are at least as numerous.
And this is just as candidate, after he is coronated he will begin
erecting statues of himself.

SkyEyes

2008-10-28 23:01:46 UTC

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Post by d***@rocketmail.com

Post by John Baker
Wow, pictures of a candidate for President are plastered all over the
place during a Presidential election campaign. Yes, that certainly is
strange...
Moron.

They remind me of Saddam murals and they are at least as numerous.
And this is just as candidate, after he is coronated he will begin
erecting statues of himself.

The verb is "to crown," not "to coronate." A "coronation" is a
ceremony where someone is "crowned." If you have to spew idiocy, can
you at least word it intelligently, or would that be asking too much?

Brenda "yes, I'm a grammar nazi" Nelson, A.A.#34
BAAWA Knight
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skyeyes nine at cox dot net

thomas p.

2008-10-29 07:38:06 UTC

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Post by John Baker
Wow, pictures of a candidate for President are plastered all over the
place during a Presidential election campaign. Yes, that certainly is
strange...
Moron.

They remind me of Saddam murals and they are at least as numerous.
And this is just as candidate, after he is coronated he will begin
erecting statues of himself.
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Yes, after all what candidate in history has ever done something so awful as
to put his picture up all over the place during a campaign? How could Obama
be so evil?

Geode

2008-10-28 17:07:02 UTC

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Obama is god. Came here to save America and the world of this crisis.
stop

kujebak

2008-10-28 18:10:24 UTC

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From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones
CANTON, OH -- In a rousing speech his campaign billed as his "closing
argument," Obama laid out the case for electing him over his rival,
and returned to a theme that was a central part of his campaign during
the primaries: hope.
The roughly 33-minute speech repeated well-rehearsed lines and themes
from the campaign trail in recent weeks, but rather than with sharp
hits on McCain -- sparked by the news of the day -- Obama spelled out
the contrasts between the two candidates in more general terms,
especially on tax policy.
He hailed McCain for his service -- a line that has been a part of his
remarks intermittently throughout the campaign, yet that has been
missing in the past few weeks -- but said he electing him would mean a
continuation of the failed economic policies of George Bush.
Speaking before an audience of nearly 5,000 in a hard-hit area of a
state that has suffered with one of the highest jobless rates in the
nation, Obama portrayed himself as a champion of the middle class and
someone who would give tax breaks to working people, not just the
wealthy and big corporations, as he said McCain would.
Obama, who spoke with the help of a teleprompter (a common sight at
events in recent weeks), stressed the themes of hope, unity, and a new
kind of politics more than he has in recent weeks, arguing that the
size of the country's challenges -- economic and otherwise -- had
outgrown the "smallness of our politics." He added that to resolve the
economic crisis the country faces would require getting past the
ideological debates that divide right and left.

Our country's problems are bigger than the "smallness of our
politics"? What solution is he proposing here? Some sort of
benevolent dictatorship? Well, that sort of fits with his view of
the U.S. Constitution, in its present form, as one of the impe-
diments to meaningful social and economic justice through
"redistributive change", doesn't it?

Here is what Obama thinks about the U.S. Constitution:

http://kaybrooks.blogspot.com/2008/10/negative-liberties.html

Here we go again, Joe. Forget your would-be plumbing business.
Pay off your mortgage and go on welfare. That's the only way
you'll be able to secure your future under King Obama.

"In one week, you can put an end to the politics that would divide a
nation just to win an election; that tries to pit region against
region, and city against town, Republican against Democrat; that asks
us to fear at a time when we need hope," he said. "As I've said from
the day we began this journey all those months ago, the change we need
isn't just about new programs and policies. It's about a new attitude.
It's about new politics -- a politics that calls on our better angels
instead of encouraging our worst instincts; one that reminds us of the
obligations we have to ourselves and one another."

John Baker

2008-10-28 20:26:15 UTC

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On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:10:24 -0700 (PDT), kujebak
<***@eudoramail.com> wrote:

And His Majesty George I thinks it's just "a goddamn piece of paper."
Your point, assuming you have one, would be...?

kujebak

2008-10-28 22:45:56 UTC

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Post by John Baker
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:10:24 -0700 (PDT), kujebak
And His Majesty George I thinks it's just "a goddamn piece of paper."

What GW thinks of the Constitution is not relevant. What
matters in this context is that he doesn't give a shit how
much money I got in the bank, like Obama does, 'cause
it's my money. I earned it, so it should be mine to spend
whichever way I please. I should be able to spend it on
the most obscene symbols of boastful affluence as easily
as I could give it away to those in need. Of my own volition.

Post by John Baker
Your point, assuming you have one, would be...?

Redistribution of wealth spreads poverty, not wealth.
Google it up under "20th century socialist experiments",
before you address this subject again. Assuming of
course you have a brain ;-)

2008-10-29 00:12:08 UTC