Showing posts with label Obamamania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obamamania. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Obamissism

Yes, yes, yes, Obama! The world still loves you – for NOW! So you can keep on looking into that pool of water! – Mark

MAIL Online: He is the most photographed man on the planet.

And, just in case we had forgotten that, the White House has issued a new series of photographs to commemorate Barack Obama's 100 days in office today.

One hundred photographs for 100 days would have been enough for anyone - but, just to drive the point home, the White House has decided to include three times that number in the set. >>> By Mail Foreign Service | Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Das Ende der "Obamania"?

STUTTGARTER ZEITUNG ONLINE: Berlin - Deutsche Politiker haben das Eintreten des demokratischen US-Präsidentschaftsbewerbers Barack Obama für die Todesstrafe für Kinderschänder kritisiert. "Barack Obama sollte sich für die Abschaffung der Todesstrafe einsetzen, nicht für ihre Ausweitung", sagte Grünen-Chefin Claudia Roth der "Bild"-Zeitung. Die Todesstrafe sei nicht zu rechtfertigen, auch nicht zur Bestrafung schlimmster Verbrechen. CSU-Chef Erwin Huber sagte der Zeitung: "Kinderschändung ist mit das abscheulichste Verbrechen. Aber das Verbot der Todesstrafe muss absolute Gültigkeit haben." Das Ende der "Obamania"? >>> | 27. Juni 2008

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Sunday, February 24, 2008

Obama Criticised Over ‘Cult-Like’ Rallies

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: For many it is simply a sign of his charisma. But for a growing number of Barack Obama sceptics, there is something disturbing about the adulation with which the senator and Democratic presidential frontrunner is greeted as he campaigns for the White House - unnervingly akin to the hysteria of a cult, or the fervour of a religious revival.

Thousands wait in line to see him wherever he stops. Members of the audience have taken to rushing the stage during campaign rallies, forcing the public-address announcer to plead with them to back off.

And when Mr Obama eventually takes the platform to rhythmic chants of his mantra-like slogan, “Yes we can, yes we can!” fans swoon with euphoria. 



Now critics are quietly voicing the fear that Mr Obama and his campaign have deliberately adopted the tone and tactics of an evangelical preacher, whipping up “Obamamania” at the expense of more serious discussion of policy and government. 



There is “something just a wee bit creepy about the mass messianism” deployed by the black senator and his supporters, observed Joe Klein, the veteran political commentator the first to latch on to the political potency of Bill Clinton, then an obscure Arkansas governor, early in the 1992 White House campaign. 



“The message is becoming dangerously self-referential,” he wrote in Time magazine. “The Obama campaign all too often is about how wonderful the Obama campaign is.” Barack Obama criticised over 'cult-like' rallies >>> By William Lowther in Washington

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Saturday, May 12, 2007

Obamamania

For some time now, the United States has been in the grip of Obamamania. In many ways, it could be classed as a pandemic.

I have been racking my brains for quite some time to understand this phenomenon. This morning I had a breakthough: a friend of mine in the States, the director of Transactions Magazine, drew my attention to the following image of Barack Obama, and my thanks go to him for doing so.

The reason for this phenomenon, for this pandemic, for Obamamania are clear! I don't have to rack my brains any longer! And just in case you were racking yours, then you don't need to do so any longer, either. Here is our answer:

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Mark Alexander