Obama campaign should try and get a handle on the cult discussion.

[jillan]

This story has legs.

You don't believe me? Google 'cult obama'. There are 12 pages at this moment on this.

I'll admit it, at first I snickered about this, but now I'm getting a little nervous. It's all over the place.


Is the Obama campaign going to put this to rest or are we going to go through 2004 all over again?

[busymom]

1. This Obama cult thing is ridiculous

I think that this has been taken too far. What are the origins of these cult remarks?

[nonconformist]

3. Independent observations. nt

[Drunken Irishman]

7. I thank you busymom for being rational.

You're ok in my book. :)

[Webster Green]

13. Are you fucking serious?....Here's what you said in another thread..

You: "I don't want any part of group think...of the obamanation"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4494309&mesg_id=4494309

WTF?! :crazy:

[busymom]

19. That's different.

I think there is a group think dynamic happening....BUT...that is different from CULT behavior. In regards to the obamanation I was referring to something that had just been said about the obamanation coming together."

I don't like the group think thing...but groupthink is not CULT in my book. I guess when I think of a cult I think of the hare Krishna's or someting...and THAT is what I think the MSM is trying to do.

[Webster Green]

23. Silly me!...I thought it was a play on the word "abomination"..

I had no idea it was intended to be a positive statement. Considering all the name calling on this board at this time, do you understand how I could make that leap? :smoke:

[busymom]

32. I'm sorry...I didn't mean any offense.

And yest, I can understand how you would make that leap. The name calling is crazy.

[dailykoff]

2. Dream on.

[jillan]

4. While you are dreaming, this is growing.

This is not an anti-Obama thread.
This is the wtf is going on thread.

[dailykoff]

9. Sour grapes by any other name still smell as sour.

Pure jealousy. Obama's immensely popular, Hilly's never has been and never will be. She's only making a fool of herself by putting this nonsense out.

[Webster Green]

16. OMG!...It's on Google!....It must be true!..

What a load of bullshit!

Hey!...what's the latest on "snub-gate"? Is it getting legs? :rofl:

Snap out of it, you fucking idiots!

[sandnsea]

5. That is just sick

What kind of person are you really?

[jillan]

11. Someone who doesn't want to see Obama swiftboated -

what is it with you Obama supporters? Why do you always assume everything is an attack?

[sandnsea]

17. You're doing the swiftboating

This is exactly what DUers did to Kerry.

[sfam]

6. The truly sad part about this is you think this is a good thing somehow...

Slimey campaign tactics like this are just that - slimey.

Cool - so 15-20 stories propping up the "Obama supporters are cultists" all came out yesterday from a myriad of sources. We all know where they originated. This was not spontaneous combustion in the MSM - this slime was clearly planted.

So are you saying you support this tripe, or are you just thrilled that it was such a successful slime-ball attack? Which one?

Personally, its this sort of stuff that sickens me. I truly hope it also gets out and discussed that all these sources simultaneously started talking about this. This will discredit both the sources and the Clinton campaign for spewing it. Politics as usual - Welcome to Lee Atwater redux...

Rejoice Clinton supporters - your campaign is on the move!!! Just spare us the "People are starting to get to know Hillary" line if she closes the gap with this crap.

[jillan]

10. I DO NOT think this is a good thing.

What is wrong with wanting the Obama campaign to put an end to it?

[dailykoff]

12. Hilly's flop sweat works to Obama's advantage.

He's best to let her marinate in her own slime.

[Webster Green]

8. What story?

A bunch of dip-shits are trying to marginalize Obama.

Is that the big story that's getting legs?:rofl:

[jillan]

15. Fine - just hope it blows over.

Gee - where have I heard that before?

[Webster Green]

20. Thanks so much for your concern

:rofl:

[jillan]

27. I am a democrat first,

and I want to win in November regardless of which candidate.

[Webster Green]

31. Good!...Me too!......I'll even vote for Hillary Clinton if I have to.

We are all in this together. Hardly anyone even mentions the daily outrages and crimes still being committed by the war-chimp and his thugs.:patriot:

The "cult" bullshit has no legs and never will. Obama is set to roll over all the tiny, desperate, and hopeless detractors that are trying to derail him with idiotic slurs, and fabricated bullshit. It's going to be really fun to watch! :smoke:

[islandmkl]

14. Fuck all this...I'm thinking of starting a legitimate Obama Cult and getting all this shit over with

[Qutzupalotl]

18. It's not a "discussion"

It's a plate of spaghetti repeatedly thrown at a wall to see what sticks.

Sure, if you do it enough, the wall doesn't look so hot anymore. But do you blame the wall for that?

[grantcart]

21. it will create a backlash and help Obama. And it fires up his supporters.

[Sensitivity]

26. "CULT" campaign is designed to CAGE Obama and to create the "closed booth" effect

for undecideds who will out of FEAR switch to Hillary in a booth decision.

This is a well established strategy. Bush used "terror" alerts, Hillary is using "cult" alert.

[grantcart]

29. it has no play outside of places like this. What is happening now in

Washington state (just got off the phone with my brother there) is that there was considerable publicity for Hillary on her quick trip there and a huge amount of coverage because he is not only packing huge venues they are overflowing.

[newmajority]

22. The only reason this shit exists is because it was on a DLC talking points memo

probably personally authorized by Hillary Clinton. Or if not her, one of the other damned fools in this picture....

[jillan]

24. Do you have a link to that memo?

[JI7]

25. .

:puke:

[jillan]

28. You're right - it is sick

How supporters of different candidates cannot even have a discussion anymore.

[JI7]

30. answer like Obama did when asked about Biden's comments

concerning people of other ethnicity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOXzyTGsC1c

[sandnsea]

34. That would take class

and I'm glad you had enough to point it out. Wish I'd thought of it.

[ClericJohnPreston]

33. It has legs because his speeches are hollow patitudes

mistaken for speeches of great weight. It's like reading Hallmark cards for inspiration.

To those with, um, slightly more political acumen, his MANIPULATION and chanting is seen for what it is, not the dreamy oratory his neophyte supporters perceive.