Okay, I see what you are saying. Very interesting.
NLP attempts to codify the process of hypnotic induction as part of the persuasion process.
Anchoring is a classic NLP technique.
But Obama makes use of other NLP techniques as well. For example, let's take some sentences from the close of his SC primary victory speech:
When I hear that we'll never overcome the racial divide in our politics, I think about that Republican woman who used to work for Strom Thurmond, who is now devoted to educating inner city-children and who went out into the streets of South Carolina and knocked on doors for this campaign. Don't tell me we can't change.
[Notice the locution "when I hear that we'll never overcome...don't tell me we can't change" (obvious reference to the spiritual). His first example of change is a Republican who now avidly supports him. The "don't tell me we can't" is crafty. It is framed as a challenge: "can't" rather than "won't". People who oppose his ideas might respond in an oppositional manner, as in "well, I, for one, can change"]
Yes, we can. Yes, we can change. Yes, we can.
[In NLP terms, this is called pacing and leading. First, he paces his audience with the familiar slogan, "yes we can". Then he leads them: "yes we can change". Then paces them again. Then, in the next two sentences, he leads them into a set of abstractions...]
Yes, we can heal this nation. Yes, we can seize our future.
[Next, onto even greater abstraction. Who is the "we" he is referring to in the phrase, "And as we leave this great state..."? All along, he has been speaking of his campaign. Now, he is taking his audience with him on a mental journey of the US. The simple, iconic images of each state are asking the audience to "go inside" and access the images...]
And as we leave this great state with a new wind at our backs and we take this journey across this great country, a country we love, with the message we carry from the plains of Iowa to the hills of New Hampshire, from the Nevada desert to the South Carolina coast, the same message we had when we were up and when we were down, that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we will hope.
[Especially interesting is the "while we breathe, we will hope". Connecting a subconscious behavior such as breathing to support of "hope", i.e. his campaign, is a classic post-hypnotic suggestion construction]
And where we are met with cynicism and doubt and fear and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of the American people in three simple words -- yes, we can.
[Every fable must have a force that obstructs the journey of the hero...again, we will respond...who is "we"?]
I can’t bear to listen to O speak. He has this rhyming sing-song rise at each sentence that’s as annoying as a Valley girl’s. He has such a fake “black preacher” manner (although copied pretty well for someone who never listened to Wright’s sermons) that it’s laughable — especially for someone with his background.