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Obama Fever Is Breaking On the Web
Washington Post ^ | February 23, 2008 | Jose Antonio Vargas

Posted on 02/23/2008 5:17:21 PM PST by Kaslin

A Rash of New Sites Throws Some Cold Water On the Hot Candidate

It's the nature of the Web -- and, really, of life. What goes up must come down. What's popular becomes too popular. What's seen as hip and hot and cool eventually gets mocked.

Even, yes, Barack Obama.

In recent days, sites have popped up indicating that the ongoing online Obamamania has hit a wall. What kind of wall? A snarky, ironic, this-Obama-thing-has-gotten-over-the-top wall. Obama's smiling mug is mashed up on countless faces on SenatorObamas.com. He's Sumobama. He's Pharaohbama. He's Navajobama, complete with a blue-and-white feathered headdress. The blog Is Barack Obama the Messiah? features a photo of the Illinois senator standing on a flight of stairs, Christlike, above an adoring crowd while a ray of light beams from above.

And on the aptly titled Web site BarackObamaIsYourNewBicycle.com, the candidate caters to all your needs: Barack Obama made your bed . . . Barack Obama folded your laundry . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackhusseinobama; bo; chebama; cultofobama; husseinobama; nobama; obama
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To: Kaslin

That BarackObamaisyournewbicycle site is funny!


41 posted on 02/23/2008 6:07:05 PM PST by GVnana ("They're still analyzing the first guy. What do I have to worry about?" - GWB)
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The average voter will never even see those bias websites nor care what is on them.


42 posted on 02/23/2008 6:07:06 PM PST by CTSeditor
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To: Kaslin
This thing may blow over like Michael Jackson's career.

He was going along like he walked on water until one day, the whole world turned against him.

Americans can turn on a dime and bury yesterday's icons.

43 posted on 02/23/2008 6:11:17 PM PST by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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To: NeoCaveman

I have proof the Obama weighs as much as a duck.

So therefore................HE’S A WITCH!!!


44 posted on 02/23/2008 6:15:24 PM PST by TrueKnightGalahad (When you're racing...it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.)
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To: Kaslin

It’s a long way to November and already the “Oprah halo” on Obama is fading....


45 posted on 02/23/2008 6:21:51 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Kaslin

Call me crazy for thinking this, but with Hillary’s past coziness with McCain combined with the bad feeling between her and Hussein, if the empty suit gets the RAT nomination, I can see Hillary throwing her support to McCain.


46 posted on 02/23/2008 6:24:54 PM PST by white trash redneck
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To: depressed in 06

Actually yes, they hope for the second Carter Presidency, an unmitigated disaster.


47 posted on 02/23/2008 6:26:25 PM PST by alecqss
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To: Kaslin
Mathew adds. "He's not going to win on personality alone. I think the more people shy away from the mania of it all, the more they'll realize that there's actual substance in him and what he's been saying."

That actual "substance in him" is an old days socialism; Mathew better hope they stick to the mania...
48 posted on 02/23/2008 6:28:37 PM PST by alecqss
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To: Kaslin

49 posted on 02/23/2008 7:03:47 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Everytime McCain reaches out to conservatives, conservatives get poked in the eye.)
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To: Kaslin
The root of this 'mania', imho, and ALL the substance that is going to be required of Obama, is that he will bring the CHANGE Americans are longing for.

Only this morning, 10 mortar rounds were lobbed into the Green Zone of Baghdad.

Just imagine that, 5 years after Pearl Harbor, island insurgents were still lobbing rockets made in Bora Bora into downtown Honolulu.

McCain offers the people 95 more years to wrap it up...sending, presumably, even our grandchildren's grandchildren to Iraq, to perform dangerous, urban renewal projects that will eventually pacify the locals & win their hearts and minds...

Can Obama and his adoring followers change that?

YES...they can!

They are the ones they've been waiting for!

They are the change that they seek!

Until someone comes up with a with a credible counter to all this, and Hitlery has failed UTTERLY, and McCain has a lot of change to go through himself, the fuzzy concept of President Barack Hussein Obama emerging from the various HOPENOSIS sessions will continue to clarify among the voting public...

50 posted on 02/23/2008 7:13:10 PM PST by O Neill (Aye, Katie Scarlett, the ONLY thing that lasts is the land...)
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To: Kaslin

"For the Obamarishi's next trick..."

51 posted on 02/23/2008 7:13:21 PM PST by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
Next up: levitation
52 posted on 02/23/2008 7:14:42 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Everytime McCain reaches out to conservatives, conservatives get poked in the eye.)
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To: Kaslin
I will give everybody everything! How could you not love me you idiots?
53 posted on 02/23/2008 7:16:06 PM PST by eyedigress
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To: Kaslin

54 posted on 02/23/2008 7:16:53 PM PST by Roscoe Karns
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To: Kaslin

Thank you Rush Limbaugh, LOL;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzBEszyamrQ&feature=related


55 posted on 02/23/2008 7:26:47 PM PST by egginanest ( "Never interrupt me when I'm trying to interrupt you." -Winston Churchill-)
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To: The_Macallan; TornadoAlley3; 444Flyer
"Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual."
- Michelle Obama

Notice the dictatorial and totalitarian tone. This is the authoritarian style of the Black Muslims, of a non-Western "strongman" dictator like Muammar Gaddafi, Manuel Noriega, Fidel Castro or Mao Tse Tung. This is outside of the tradition of Anglo-American constitutionalism. Far Left Kooky loony tunes stuff. She's not talking to inner-city teenagers selling crack for Reeboks. She's talking to adult Americans this way. She makes Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosalyn Carter, and Hillary seem like Goldwater Republicans.

Is she just confused and delusional like the Obamarishi cult followers or do they really believe this kind of totalitarian crap?

This is not what an American presidential campaign should be about - the mystical healing properties of a Third World messiah. This is bizarre (even by liberal standards). Not even Howard Dean, John Kerry or Al Gore demanded worship.

56 posted on 02/23/2008 7:28:31 PM PST by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIERAsVcY7U

Nobody loves me like Obama

57 posted on 02/23/2008 7:32:05 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Everytime McCain reaches out to conservatives, conservatives get poked in the eye.)
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity

58 posted on 02/23/2008 7:32:21 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

59 posted on 02/23/2008 7:34:47 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Kaslin

The Clinton machine has apparently spoken to the WP board of directors.

“Print articles stating that Obama is not the in thing anymore”


60 posted on 02/23/2008 7:34:48 PM PST by kidd
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