Posted on 02/15/2008 10:46:53 AM PST by Kaslin
WASHINGTON -- There's no better path to success than getting people to buy a free commodity. Like the genius who figured out how to get people to pay for water: bottle it (Aquafina was revealed to be nothing more than reprocessed tap water) and charge more than they pay for gasoline. Or consider how Google found a way to sell dictionary nouns -- boat, shoe, clock -- by charging advertisers zillions to be listed whenever the word is searched.
And now, in the most amazing trick of all, a silver-tongued freshman senator has found a way to sell hope. To get it, you need only give him your vote. Barack Obama is getting millions.
This kind of sale is hardly new. Organized religion has been offering a similar commodity -- salvation -- for millennia. Which is why the Obama campaign has the feel of a religious revival with, as writer James Wolcott observed, a "salvational fervor" and "idealistic zeal divorced from any particular policy or cause and chariot-driven by pure euphoria."
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I think his “change we can believe in” platitude will be a dead duck closer to the general election.
Yeah, but he is wrapping up his depression in a shiny wrapper. On the other hand, McCain, last time he spoke, depressed the hell out me, one of his biggest supporters.
I figured he was tired and had an off day....but if that’s the best he is going to do, message alone is not going to get it done.
Is anyone truly surprised that a pop culture is swooning over its messianic, pop politician. Having a black hero who sets the white man straight is a scenario ingrained on the psyche of young voters. It is in all the movies and TV shows they grew up on. Obama is the whole point of PC. Get ready. We are in for one wild ride, and Republicans better be ready to offer something better when the Obamrama comes to an end.
No, I’m not surprised. But is he the Antichrist?
He’s not the Antichrist, he is just the secular version of a child watching Bambi.
It’s a cartoon that makes kids feel good.
And as you know, with the Rats, it’s about their feelings, not facts.
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