More creepy Obama worship

[Perd Hapley]

I can't find the video anywhere.  I heard it on a local radio show this morning.

http://blog.beliefnet.com/gospelsoundcheck/2008/10/is-obama-your-sanctuary.html

The video, from ManifestObama.com, used the worship song "Sanctuary" as a soundtrack to dozens of people saying the name, "Barak Obama,"

I've sung that song many, many times, so I was VERY interested to hear it being used this way. 

[roo_ster]

I saw it on youtube, but was so exhausted by yet another artifact of the BHO cult of personality, I couldn't bring myself to post about it.

The best thing that could happen to the BHO-worshippers would be for BHO to lose and get filmed snorting cocaine off a male hooker's *expletive deleted*ss.

Show them the folly of such cult-like behavior.

[MicroBalrog]

The best thing that could happen to the BHO-worshippers would be for BHO to lose and get filmed snorting cocaine off a male hooker's *expletive deleted*ss.

Sadly that's the best thing that could happen to any of us.

[Perd Hapley]

It is shocking how common this is becoming.  Of course, a lot of it has to do with the propaganda so many of the cult bought into in the past eight years, that prepared them to seek salvation from The Obama.  Bush (or Cheney or Rove) is Hitler, the Religious Right have established a theocracy, innocent Muslims are being rounded up on the streets of America, and leashed by Lindy England, the Two Oil Men in the White House are gleefully raising our gas prices, the world hates us for deposing a dictator murdering millions of innocent Iraqis, George Bush is a mental toddler, and so on.  Anyone providing an alleged contrast to these alleged horrors could expect to be worshiped.   


But it could be very humorous to chart each disappointment in Barry's one-term Reich.  I'm considering whether to start a Change Clock website, to keep track of all the "Change" he isn't bringing us. 

[Monkeyleg]

As the elections draw nearer, and Obama's lead seems to be intact, I've been mulling over an idea. Actually, it's an evolvement of the Bauhaus style of posters we've seen here on APS threads.

Imagine if a conservative group could muster the funds to produce Stalinesque billboards and wall murals featuring Obama's Bauhaus likeness, and plaster the country with them. I don't think a tagline or headline would even be necessary.

I suspect the majority of the public might find it clever, at least at first. But, as they see his likeness everywhere, everyday, they'd be at least subliminally reminded of the images of Stalin that were everywhere in the USSR, not to mention Hitler in Germany.

With every mistake Obama makes, the images would become more hated. Eventually he would come to be more hated.

It would be a relatively cheap and non-controversial way of undermining his chances of a second term, and perhaps returning control of congress to the Republicans in 2010.

[Perd Hapley]

That's an extremely good idea.  The backlash against the hateful racists who put up such signs would also be interesting.

[Regolith]

They way things are looking, we wouldn't have to do it;  Obama's supporters will do it themselves.   

[RaspberrySurprise]

Like these ones?

[Waitone]

I think consistently refering to him as "Dear Leader" or "Maximum Leader" or "Messiah" would effectively make the point.  Then again you just know a few of his initiatives will crater right from the start.

I think the guy will self-limit his presidency just like his intellectual predecessor James Earl Carter.

[Grylady]

  Part of the problem is that most people today don't even recognise that tags like "The Workers Party" are tags for Socialism / Communism. Besides, "What's wrong with Socialism?"

  When I was in school 35 -40 years ago, there was consternation about the "Socialist Propaganda. " That propaganda has been perpetuating ever since. Thanks, Department of Education, Thanks, NEA. Kids don't play tag anymore, because someone might get chased? A "Palin" t-shirt = racism? Please.

  Those of that were "Aware" during ages of old, WWII,  the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, USSR, Korea, the origins of Vietnam... we're dying off.

  The young have lived only in times of relative peace, and don't know the "score", the relative "prizes." They can't really conceive of "hiding under your desk" during "bomb drills" wondering why, since those windows... No bomb shelters now. Too many people.

  How can they not wonder who else He will throw under the bus?

[buzz_knox]

I think the guy will self-limit his presidency just like his intellectual predecessor James Earl Carter.

As I've said before, we need to stop comparing him to Carter.  His policies and cult of personality are far closer to Chavez.

Unless the Obamamessiah gets caught with a dead girl or a live boy, he will be heading for a second term 10 seconds into his first.  The economy is likely turn around on his watch (that's just what markets do), he's got the power of being "game changing and history making", lhis fan club (including European allies and the media) will work to insure his screwups aren't assigned to him, he won't have a running battle within his own gov't (i.e. no Sec of State contradicting him), and he'll have what the media will call an absolute mandate from the people (even if he wins by one electoral vote).

[ctdonath]

they'd be at least subliminally reminded of the images of Stalin that were everywhere in the USSR

No, they would be persuaded to idolize and obey their Great Leader.
Few would make the Stalin connection, and fewer would care more then a couple seconds.

[FTA84]

Let me just say that I am only old enough to remember the fall of the USSR and was not old enough to understand what it meant.

I think the reason young kiddos throw around the word socialist is that now-a-days, in school, they teach you three words:

Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism

Kids still are taught communism is bad.

Kids are taught that so is capitalism. That is, the 'unrestrained' version, is bad. This is the version we had prior to the establishment of unions and further removed by the creation of the EPA. They tell you about how businesses without government intervention do things like abuse/underpay workers and dump waste chemicals into your drinking water.

I believe my highschool social studies teacher referred to America in it's current state as a "socialist democratic republic". In a good way, as if we should strive to be more "socialist".

So I think that kids today are taught that what we live in is socialism and that socialism means "equal pay for equal work" (not the race/sex kind, but the kind that 8 hours of yard work = 8 hours of working in the ER).  That if a company makes $50/mil in profits because they had a wise CEO, that $50/mil should be broken up among the employees for having done a great job.  The shareholders are already rich because they had money to buy this company with, right?  

Not to mention there is a large percentage of society that refuse to learn (and/or must do the opposite of what they are told).  These are the same people that know nothing about engineering/physics/demolition (i.e. Rosie O) but look at WTC 11 falling down and OMGMUSTBEEVILGWBUSHPLANFORIRAQ (the same people mentioned above that worship Obama).  The fact of the matter is, in general, democrats are the more emotional / less rational voters in our society.  It seems to me, for one to worship a person, they must rather emotional.  It is like a perfect storm.

[Monkeyleg]

buzz_knox, good point about an Obama second term. There's a good column by Michael Medved that echoes your opinions here.

FTA84, socialism being taught as a "good thing" isn't new. When I was in grade school, we were taught in civics class that there were two types of tax systems: regressive and progressive, with progressive meaning that tax rates increase as income increases. Regressive meant that everyone was taxed at more or less the same rate. Of course we were told that progressive taxes were more fair.

As for the billboard idea, I don't think that people need to be knowledgeable at all about the Soviet Union or Mao's China to make the connection. They've seen the murals of Saddam Hussein as well as other despots, and they've likely seen something in magazines or on TV with images of the Soviet murals to at least make the subliminal connection.

People react to advertising. When they're saturated with the same ad over and over, though, they get irritated and they hate the ad and the product.

[Oleg Volk]

BHO to lose and get filmed snorting cocaine

Wouldn't that just make coke-snorting instantly acceptable to half the population?

[MicroBalrog]

Wouldn't that just make coke-snorting instantly acceptable to half the population?

So you're saying all we need to do to finally end the war on drugs is to get a picture of Obama snorting da coke off a hooker's *expletive deleted*ss?

CLEARLY THEN.

[RadioFreeSeaLab]

http://blog.beliefnet.com/gospelsoundcheck/2008/10/heres-the-manifest-obama-sanct.html
Video is there, I'm downloading it so when it vanishes, I can still show people.

[Perd Hapley]

Excellent.  Thanks.

The words on the screen remind me of the time I went to an anti-war event, and they told us all to close our eyes and feel the energy of peace in that building and around the world. 

Between now and November 4...
Let's spend one minute a day...
Envisioning Barack Obama...
As our President...
Prepare your heart to fill with hope...
Prepare your mind to embrace the change...
Envision Barack victorious on election night...
...Taking the oath of office...
On Inauguration Day...
Believe that this great moment in American history is already a reality...
Say the words to yourself...
To your family...
To your friends and neighbors...
Say it to the world...
Your vision is a sacred trust...
You are a sanctuary of a sacred vision for a renewed America...
Envision it...
Say it...
Feel it...
Believe it...
Make it our reality...
Manifest Obama, America!

As I recall, visualizing stuff didn't work out at the anti-war event.  We ended up invading Iraq, anyway.  Let's see if it works for these folks. 

[taurusowner]

Wouldn't that just make coke-snorting instantly acceptable to half the population?

That same half of the population already finds coke snorting acceptable.

[Tallpine]

WWOD ?   :rolleyes:

[Harold Tuttle]

[RocketMan]

Damn, this nation is in trouble.

[Grebnaws]

How long until the Obama's little O'flag badge becomes the new symbol of America?

[RocketMan]

How long until The Obama's little O'flag badge becomes required wear?

[Tallpine]

How long until The Obama's little O'flag badge becomes required wear?

Well, you know after He gets "tested" by some "crisis" in the first six months of His reign, He is going to want some assurance that we are all still supporting Him ...