Reply #23: You need to reign in the divisive rhetoric ... we are smarter, more affluent, [View All]

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better educated, we have more money, we more progressive remarks here on DU by the Obama supporters. It's very adolescent, offensive, clickish ... and to some cult-like. Further, Obama's speeches need to move away from cheer-leading theocractic stupors and toward more substance.

From the Village Voice.

"Once in a while, Obama makes a passing reference to our diminishing individual liberties, but hardly ever in his stump speeches. At an early-morning rally the day of the New Hampshire vote, he told some 300 students at the Dartmouth College gym: "My job this morning is to be so persuasive . . . that a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany, and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Barack."