Building The Obama Religion
This video got censored as inappropriate for children by the YouTube people. It’s not the first time we’ve seen underhanded stuff like that online.
(Via Professor Reynolds.)
This video got censored as inappropriate for children by the YouTube people. It’s not the first time we’ve seen underhanded stuff like that online.
(Via Professor Reynolds.)
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Probably inappropriate for children because of the lines of coke.
Other than that, I didn’t really get it. Seemed to show Obama acting like just another politician.
It is obviously inappropriate to expose children to anything that might lead them to doubt the chosen one, Obama, the one we have been waiting for and who will bring change and hope and hope for change.
Plus, it would be racist.
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That’s pretty well done. Better than other similar videos I’ve seen. And it has uses a Cake song, which is always worth extra points with me.
Paul S., the phenomenon being mocked here is not Obama’s behavior, but rather the fervor of his supporters and the tone of his campaign.
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Yup, the lines of coke are the excuse they are using to flag it. Of course, I wish I believed that it was just money that Obama was after.
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Paul S., the phenomenon being mocked here is not Obama’s behavior, but rather the fervor of his supporters and the tone of his campaign.
I understand that was the intent, and I sympathize with that view, but I just don’t think they did it very well. There was nothing particularly clever about the lyrics, and the clips they showed could have applied to just about any politician.
Paul S., the phenomenon being mocked here is not Obama’s behavior, but rather the fervor of his supporters and the tone of his campaign.
Don’t most successful campaigns have fervor? Didn’t Clinton, Regan, or Bush have die hard supporters? How about Kennedy? Fervor means a campaign is succeeding. Instead of mocking Obama supporters perhaps the McCain supporters need to generate a little McCain fervor.
No. Not like this. Hitler and Mussolini had "fervor" like this.
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To those who believe the censoring may be because of the two photos of cocaine:Here is a video of Amy Winehouse actually snorting cocaine on stage with over 4 million views and it has not been censored in any way.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YSH6LKHPLyk
My video was clearly targeted by people who are politically motivated, not because of an image of a line of cocaine (which is innocuous as a simple image — DARE officers show this stuff to fifth graders).
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No. Not like this. Hitler and Mussolini had "fervor" like this.
I would hardly compare the large crowds of people chanting, "Yes we can" to Mussolini and Hitler. If you want to talk about fervor do not forget Regan won by a landslide victory in BOTH elections. He beat Mondale by almost 18% of the popular vote! He destroyed Mondale by getting 49 states he holds the record for the ‘winniest’ of wins! He only missed 13 Electoral College votes. I doubt Obama will do that.
He also caters to a younger demographic. You know, twenty somethings, people that like to cheer and shout and do not yet know they are wasting energy by being a little over-passionate about the ideals they support (it really isn’t a bad thing). ‘A religion’ is an exaggeration of what is a normal result of youthful campaign rallying.
Here’s Obama on Regan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaoYD7iZG9w
I don’t really endorse the full sentiment of the song–Obama’s campaign is marked by a near-religious zeal, true, but comparisons to Nazism and such are over the top. I’m just appalled at the dirty underhanded censorship.
Well, Dean, at what point does it become ok to compare a political movement based on a charismatic leader promising to restore lost prestige and honor, forgiveness for past failures, and economic prosperity through highly concentrated government control, along with fanatical underground followers who devote themselves to hero-worship and censorship through intimidation and Nazism?
Do we want to wait until the ovens are cool before we let historians sort it out?
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I don’t really endorse the full sentiment of the song–Obama’s campaign is marked by a near-religious zeal, true, but comparisons to Nazism and such are over the top. I’m just appalled at the dirty underhanded censorship.
Oh, I agree there. In fact there is nothing in this video that should be deemed unfit for young viewing in comparison to the standards that govern the rest of the videos there.
Actually I should back off my last comment a little, the video doesn’t make that comparison, a commenter did. The song/video is just a sardonic note at Obama’s general Politician-ness, and the questionability of the fervor he generates. I don’t think it’s wrong to be excited about your candidate, but it does help restore perspective to note that fervor can be excessive.
As for Phelps’ question: I’d say that the real issue with fascism was not that they depended on a charismatic and beloved leader, but on the powers that the fascist leaders usurped. But I’m also not buying the notion that Obama’s program is all that close to fascist policies; if you work hard enough, you can find things in the Nazi Party platform you agree with. Actually you don’t have to work that hard, they believed some things pretty much everyone believes. This is like comparing patriotism to jingoism if you ask me: warning that one can bleed into the other is good, but paranoia and overanalysis carry their own dangers.
Obama is the Apple Mac of political candidates. Sure some of his followers are rational but they are overshadowed by the people who pay $100 for an Obama T-shirt; a grand if it had his sweat on it.
And my view is that when you have a charismatic and beloved leader who also harbors dangerous, authoritarian views (as Obama has expressed) then the power that following lends is going to be abused (power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.)
It is like comparing patriotism to jingoism. And Obama is sailing right past patriotism as we speak in that analogy. Thankfully, there are signs that the American people are not being fooled again.
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And my view is that when you have a charismatic and beloved leader who also harbors dangerous, authoritarian views (as Obama has expressed)
I’m sorry I must have missed the speech about how Ferdinand Marcos was awesome and a police state is the way to go for victory. You know the guy likes Reagan right? I hear mainly leftist idealism mixed with capitalism. Which authoritarian concept has he expressed that would plunge our country into the throngs of fascism?
then the power that following lends is going to be abused (power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.)
I’ll be amazed if he can usurp absolute power considering he has two branches of government to stop him from doing so and the military does not (I’m certain) want to stage a military coup led by a Democrat.
Two branches? You mean the Democratic congress that won’t even stand up to Bush and the 5-4 Supreme Court that is likely to have multiple positions filled by the next president? Those two branches? And he won’t need the miltiary. The police are plenty para-military enough now. He just needs the military to stick with posse comitatus and stay on the sidelines.
I’m yelling as loud as I can from the soapbox. I’ll do what I can at the voting box. But I am really afraid that this one might come down to the ammunition box.
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Phelps,
If that’s what you truly believe then I think Obama’s supporters may not be the only ones who has succumbed to fanaticism. I really don’t think I could say it any better than Dean’s #13 comment.
"Say all you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos."
Yeah, I gotta buck up. I can’t go into the election with all this negative attitude, right?
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Two branches? You mean the Democratic congress that won’t even stand up to Bush and the 5-4 Supreme Court that is likely to have multiple positions filled by the next president? Those two branches? And he won’t need the miltiary. The police are plenty para-military enough now. He just needs the military to stick with posse comitatus and stay on the sidelines.
Most police I have met are not Democrats either. Also, Bush does not try to usurp power from the entire government using military force. If he did I am sure we’d get a different response from them. Er you sound like Democrats did when Bush won ‘04. Is this humor?
It is not humor, and I sincerely hope that I am as wrong as the Democrats were about Bush.
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