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For President Barack Obama and his Followers, The Upcoming Election is Just a Mere Formality
Beacon Street Journal ^ | 7/24/08 | John Kinsellagh

Posted on 07/25/2008 5:05:36 AM PDT by beacon street bandit

What explains all the over-the-top media coverage and adulation for Barack Obama? The presumptuous treatment by the press of Obama as president-elect or a head of state, stems from a belief that an election isn’t necessary, because, in the eyes of many in the mainstream media, as the first African-American candidate for the presidency, Barack Obama is entitled to the office. In a very real sense, Barack Obama is an affirmative-action candidate for the presidency. Should he be defeated by the American voters, it will not be a mere loss due to his numerous shortcomings and foibles, but rather, an example of the lingering vestiges of indelible racism in the country.

By virtue of their unquestioned belief in the virtues of the politics of grievance and the manifestation of this philosophy in the adoption of aggressive practices of affirmative action in most newsrooms, it matters not one whit to his adoring fans in the media that Obama has no substantive experience whatsoever that would qualify him to serve as Chief Executive, nor that his actual deeds are in stark contrast to his professed and fraudulent message of Hope and Change, all that matters is making history. Because for them, Obama represents an unstoppable train that all had better get on before it leaves the station.

For most members of the media, Barack Obama is the perfect vehicle to assuage the prevalence of their liberal white guilt. As liberals suffer from the intellectual conceit of their own moral superiority,

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2008; mainstreammedia; mediabiasforobama; obama; proapgandawingofdnc

1 posted on 07/25/2008 5:05:37 AM PDT by beacon street bandit
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To: beacon street bandit

* Speeches in stadiums filled with mesmerized, adoring audiences - Check
* An uninspiring background before meteoric rise - Check
* Creates his own new symbols of power - Check
* Associates with racists, hatemongers and violent radicals - Check
* A propaganda machine willing to show him only in the best possible light - Check
* Uses, “glorious leader” style Agitprop posters common in totalitarian nations - Check (see German campaign poster for example)
* Wants Secret Police force - Check
* Somebody powerful people think they can control - Check
* Often dismissed as a light-weight by his opponents - Check
* Seeks to replace God with the State - Check
* People adopting his name as their own - Check
* Inspires adoration art - Check
* Appropriates symbols of past German glory - Check
* Never plans on giving up power - Check (Obama to be president for the next “eight to 10 years”)
* A narcissistic megalomaniac - Check
* Brazenly Takes credit for other people’s accomplishments - Check
* Wants to build “youth” movement through State service - Check
* Acts as if in power before he is - Check
* Some followers believe him to be divine - Check
* Worshiped and aided greatly by the media - Check


2 posted on 07/25/2008 5:09:04 AM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: beacon street bandit
They support Obama partly because they both do see the world the same way and they support him because he's the first affirmative action candidate in American history.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

3 posted on 07/25/2008 5:11:35 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Also, the MSM NEVER reports on his untruths.



"I was the youngest Editor of the Harvard Law Review in its entire history.
My writings alone, composed several of the issues. Veritas."

4 posted on 07/25/2008 5:19:14 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: beacon street bandit

I still think that Hillary has an ace for the last play and it may be a very big one.


5 posted on 07/25/2008 5:19:41 AM PDT by Vaduz (and just think how clean the cities would become again.)
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To: beacon street bandit

He can pretend to be President after he loses.


6 posted on 07/25/2008 5:31:41 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Boycott Washington D.C. until they allow gun ownership)
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To: Vaduz
"I still think that Hillary has an ace for the last play and it may be a very big one."

Yep! If, God forbid, something terrible happened to the President-select, Mrs. Bill Clinton could cash in with the media's sympathy with the sheeple, and, of course, Pubbies would be blamed indirectly!

7 posted on 07/25/2008 5:33:09 AM PDT by kcm.org (Conservatives bashing Sen. McCain has Ronald Reagan spinning in his grave!!!)
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To: beacon street bandit
For President Barack Obama and his Followers, The Upcoming Election is Just a Mere Formality

So just stop this stupid and outdated technicality of an Election. Osama/bama is now our FUERHER, er president of America and the entire world.

The graphic below shows, the only difference between o-B-ama and o-S-ama is just a bit of B.S.


8 posted on 07/25/2008 5:36:12 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Obama gets the special-ed treatment as our untouchable affirmative action candidate)
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9 posted on 07/25/2008 5:57:58 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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