Well, the media has gone positively wild and into overdrive on the question that is consuming the nation: What is Obama? Or, as a skeptic might phrase it: What is wrong with all those crazed fools who keep screaming and fainting at the Obama revivals?
Is Obama a long overdue charismatic leader? Is he the star of a cult of personality? Or is Obama the Messiah? Following are excerpts from two critical pieces that address the riveting question that really does need to be answered pretty damn quick:
MoJo Blog:
"This is our moment. This is our time." -- Barack Obama
This is our moment to do what? To march? To organize? No. To vote for Obama. As if simply by voting for one man, we make a mark upon this country as indelibly as those who fought the Nazis or sat at lunch counters.
But the easiness of Obama's movement isn't what bothers me most. I am profoundly troubled that any candidate would chart the course of American history as follows (and I'm rearranging Obama's history here to make it more chronological):
American Revolutionaries -> Manifest Destiny -> Slaves/Abolitionists -> Suffragettes -> the Labor Movement -> the Greatest Generation -> the Civil Rights Movement -> Himself.
New York Times
“What is troubling about the campaign is that it’s gone beyond hope and change to redemption,” said Sean Wilentz, a historian at Princeton (and a longtime friend of the Clintons). “It’s posing as a figure who is the one person who will redeem our politics. And what I fear is, that ends up promising more from politics than politics can deliver.”
. . . Accounts of the campaign’s “Camp Obama” sessions, to train volunteers, have a revivalist flavor. Volunteers are urged to avoid talking about policy to potential voters, and instead tell of how they “came” to Mr. Obama.
[E]verything IS the fault of the Clintons. . . Is loyalty dead in the Democratic party? Memo To Barack . . Watch out - these Dems will turn on you in a f-ing heartbeat! -- Bartcop
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