Posted on 02/19/2008 6:54:08 AM PST by bahblahbah
At first it seemed like a few random cases of lassitude among Mary Chapin Carpenter devotees in Berkeley, Cambridge and Chapel Hill. But then psychotherapists began to realize patients across the country were complaining of the same distress. They were experiencing the first hints of what’s bound to be a national phenomenon: Obama Comedown Syndrome.
The afflicted had already been through the phases of Obama-mania — fainting at rallies, weeping over their touch screens while watching Obama videos, spending hours making folk crafts featuring Michelle Obama’s face. These patients had experienced intense surges of hope-amine, the brain chemical that fuels euphoric sensations of historic change and personal salvation.
But they found that as the weeks went on, they needed more and purer hope-injections just to preserve the rush. They wound up craving more hope than even the Hope Pope could provide, and they began experiencing brooding moments of suboptimal hopefulness. Anxious posts began to appear on the Yes We Can! Facebook pages. A sense of ennui began to creep through the nation’s Ian McEwan-centered book clubs.
Up until now The Chosen One’s speeches had seemed to them less like stretches of words and more like soul sensations that transcended time and space. But those in the grips of Obama Comedown Syndrome began to wonder if His stuff actually made sense. For example, His Hopeness tells rallies that we are the change we have been waiting for, but if we are the change we have been waiting for then why have we been waiting since we’ve been here all along?
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
My family is a big bunch all Democrat, myself excluded. We have a little e-mail group, and I see the ebb and flow of the sweeping enthusiams for Mrs. Clinton and Obama played out in that group. I would say that Devid Brooks is about three days behind the curve.
Last Friday, they were all getting tired of the “Change/Change/Hope/Hope” mantra, and wondering whether or not Obama was an empty suit. But as of this morning, they are all back on board the Obama Express, having concluded that Mrs. Clinton is just more of the same, and what we need here is more Hope for Change, or Changed Hopes... or Hopeful Changing or Changeful Hoping... or something.
It swings pillar to post pretty fast. I just hope Obama is up on Tuesdays, and Mrs. Clinton can have the rest of the week.
The Hope Hope Hope Change Change Change mantra requires one thing, that we are all doomed, in a hopeless situation and are all oppressed. At some point people will have to realize we have it pretty damn good here. Won’t they?
Hopeful Changing......You should enter the race! Just smile and say it 5 dozen times. You will win. My HOPE is that Clintons are out forever.
I hope you are right. I think there’s something like 250 days to the election.
Cult of Personality + Sweeping Rhetoric = Primary Wins
David, I caught a typo for you. That's "dope-amine."
You're welcome.
David, I caught a typo for you. That's "dope-amine."
You're welcome.
Who knows...the left may be multi-Obasmic.
Well, it's like Buckaroo Banzai says....
Good article, but please read to the end. SR has it right and Brooks says the same, that even if no one believes he will do what he says, for the true believers, it does not matter. Really frightening.
Whatever you say, dont say "number one with a bullet!"
Yeah, I feel ya. Change what? Hope what? I kinda like my country the way it is thank you very much.
Yeah, talk about an empty suit....Obama has yet to say what he is hoping for. I can bet ya that it is more tax money from us so he can spread it around to the have nots.
Obviously many of the Obama supporters believe his election to prez will be the coming of the millenium. All their, and the world’s too, problems will immediately (well, maybe in a few months) disappear. When their problems don’t disappear, (in fact, when their problems get worse because of Obama’s nitwit socialist “solutions”) what will these people say then?
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