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Buying Brand Obama
TruthDig ^ | 5/03/2009 | Chris Hedges

Posted on 05/04/2009 8:26:13 PM PDT by littlehouse36

Barack Obama is a brand. And the Obama brand is designed to make us feel good about our government while corporate overlords loot the Treasury, our elected officials continue to have their palms greased by armies of corporate lobbyists, our corporate media diverts us with gossip and trivia and our imperial wars expand in the Middle East. Brand Obama is about being happy consumers. We are entertained. We feel hopeful. We like our president. We believe he is like us. But like all branded products spun out from the manipulative world of corporate advertising, we are being duped into doing and supporting a lot of things that are not in our interest.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hopecrash; obama
The Left continues to wake up.
1 posted on 05/04/2009 8:26:16 PM PDT by littlehouse36
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To: littlehouse36

Wherever you find rants about “corporate this” or “corporate that,” you know you’ve got a real Marxist on hand.


2 posted on 05/04/2009 8:31:12 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: littlehouse36

What?! You mean Obama will NOT bring sunshine, lollipops, and fluffy bunnies for all?


3 posted on 05/04/2009 8:32:46 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: littlehouse36
We are entertained. We feel hopeful. We like our president.

Who's this "we" he's talking about?
I despise everything about this so called "president". And there's millions of Americans that feel the exact same way.

4 posted on 05/04/2009 8:33:35 PM PDT by Bullish ( Reality is the best cure for delusion.)
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To: littlehouse36
"What, for all our faith and hope, has the Obama brand given us?" chris hodges

Exactly what you moonbats deserved: suckered.
Trouble is we all took one because of whiny moronic shallow-minded imbeciles just like you, *Chris*.

"The Left continues to wake up."

Man I'd really like to agree with you; however, reading the guys pap led me directly to concluding his biggest beef is zerO isn't nearly enough. {~of course, I've been translating Libbospeak for years.}

5 posted on 05/04/2009 8:38:29 PM PDT by Landru (Arghh, Liberals are trapped in my colon like spackle or paste.)
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To: littlehouse36

Interesting article and lots of interesting comments at the link. Thanks for posting.


6 posted on 05/04/2009 8:41:19 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Bullish
Who's this "we" he's talking about?

Denial is pointless. The American People love this clown and his dog-faced wife (...er I mean the most beautiful woman in the world). Gallup # is near his inugural levels. Even Raz has him ridin' high. He is popular and powerful. Moreover the stock market is rallying like it's 1999. If the economy turns around Obama will be unstoppable. It's very depressing right now. 90% of the rants on FR daily are totally pointless. 90% of the predictions of his failure will fail.

But eventually Obama will falter badly, and the press won't be able to clean it up for him. Perhaps then the American People will finally see, unfiltered, the anger, arrogance and bitterness that reach into the core of this man.

But that's a conversation for a future day. Right now, the Pied Piper's got nothin' on Barack Hussein Obama.

7 posted on 05/04/2009 8:46:14 PM PDT by FreepShop1 (www.FreepShop.com)
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To: littlehouse36

No thanks.

I prefer to buy *American made* brands.


8 posted on 05/04/2009 8:46:43 PM PDT by Salamander (Cursed with Second Sight.)
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To: littlehouse36
I personally believe that Obama has nothing but contempt for 99.99% of the population of America. I never would buy his brand and I would like to return the portion that has been forced upon me. Please tell me where I can make the phone call so that I can return him to his Saudi/Soros cabal.
9 posted on 05/04/2009 8:52:14 PM PDT by madinmadtown (It is good to be right.)
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To: littlehouse36
Sounds like libtard buyers remorse filtered a buzzword bingo generator.
10 posted on 05/04/2009 8:53:20 PM PDT by Not now, Not ever! (The devil made me do it!,.......................................................( well, not really.)
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To: littlehouse36
We like our president. We believe he is like us.

No way in hell. He is the most UNLIKEABLE President in my memory. And he certainly is not of us. Raised a muslim in Indonesia, taught and mentored by communists, 20 years in a virulent anti-American church, routinely trashes the country and tramples its Constitution. He is unlike anybody I have known in my 57 years. What planet do these people live on?

11 posted on 05/04/2009 8:55:29 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: FreepShop1
But eventually Obama will falter badly, and the press won't be able to clean it up for him.

No doubt there.

12 posted on 05/04/2009 8:56:26 PM PDT by Bullish ( Reality is the best cure for delusion.)
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To: littlehouse36
Barack Obama is a brand

Hi...Billy Mays here....

13 posted on 05/04/2009 9:16:23 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli now reads "Oil the gun..eat the cannolis.")
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To: Bullish

The Left who infiltrate academic departments and professional organizations make a point of using “we,” to brainwash the not yet brainwashed and the already brainwashed into thinking they’re being accepted into a special club of wise elders.


14 posted on 05/04/2009 10:53:57 PM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: Salamander

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEnaAZrYqQI


15 posted on 05/04/2009 11:13:48 PM PDT by danamco
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To: danamco

Excellent video but I notice the website http://restoretheconstitutionalrepublic.org/ is DOA.

Did the usurper’s Brown Shirts have it yanked?

Not that it matters now because the SCOTUS doesn’t give a flying frig that the constitution has been used as toilet paper by this foreign Marxist mole.


16 posted on 05/04/2009 11:49:36 PM PDT by Salamander (Cursed with Second Sight.)
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To: littlehouse36

Brand Obama is a poison toy from China.


17 posted on 05/05/2009 3:13:40 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: FreepShop1

I think there still is a small matter of the bill for the unicorns and fairy dust. THAT, Obama can’t make vanish.


18 posted on 05/05/2009 3:15:48 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: littlehouse36

Summary: “We lefties are quite upset that Obama isn’t even leftier than he is. Let’s move on to the next hopeful.”


19 posted on 05/05/2009 3:19:00 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: Bullish

“But eventually Obama will falter badly, and the press won’t be able to clean it up for him.

No doubt there.”

Unfortunately there are so many Kool Aid drinkers out there that think Obama can do no wrong. Yesterday a guy put a remark on a website that stated that Obama does not use a telepromter, Fox News just made that up.


20 posted on 05/05/2009 6:31:07 AM PDT by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
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