take them out with a punch
People (ahem, Manish) ask why folks refer to Obama supporters as a cult. And I have referred to Obama as the Messiah (apparently, others have too). Well, it started out small. The groups getting ecstatic and holding up signs or chanting things about hope and change and other warm-fuzzies that sound less like policy and more like religion. At first, it was just fan stuff rather like the videos showing when The Beatles got to the US. Then you got some bozos saying things like:
“He walks into a room and you want to follow him somewhere, anywhere,” George Clooney told talk show host Charlie Rose.
“I’ll do whatever he says to do,” actress Halle Berry said to the Philadelphia Daily News. “I’ll collect paper cups off the ground to make his pathway clear.”
Not healthy. Ok, beyond not healthy. It’s frightening. And now people cheer at his mucous.
And I thought Ron Paul (say, he’s out I can spell it out now, right) supporters were a bit kooky.
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:28 pm
“I’ll do whatever he says to do,” actress Halle Berry said to the Philadelphia Daily News. “I’ll collect paper cups off the ground to make his pathway clear.”
“Gee, this Flavor-ade takes kind of funny”
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:31 pm
I saw it many moons ago (back when he was considered a long-shot at getting the nomination). There was some video blog girl at a campaign rally and she almost fainted as she was touched by him as he was passing by the crowd. She was just ecstatic beyond belief that she actually got to touch him.
My response at the time: “Was she healed?”
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:30 pm
“My response at the time: “Was she healed?””
Nope, she’s still brain-damaged…
February 23rd, 2008 at 4:00 am
I remember this same reaction to Jack Kennedy. I still don’t understand it. I think every 40 years there must be a hormone overflux that drives this. It sure doesn’t have anything to do with brains.