The Obama Cult

[BeautifulBurnout]

Couldn't help laughing at Steve Bell in the Guardian though:

Blessed are the Carmakers

[Deckard]

Haha!

What will be interesting is seeing what the cartoonists and satirists eventually pick as the defining feature of Obama which then takes on a life of its own. As he inevitably become less revered, as he becomes more tainted through events (specifically, his responses/non-responses to those events), we would normally expect his physical features to start to be used to accentuate that transformation. Think of Rumsfeld who became the decaying corpse, Bush as the pea-brained, big-fingered chimpanzee sheriff riding backwards on his horse (ie. facing its arse!) And for us Brits, Blair's smile becoming a sort of demonic clown-like grin, splattered with the blood of all those who perished in Iraq, and Brown as a great bloated useless lump, an expressionless rock.

At the moment, the caricatures are obviously centered around the Messiah he-who-can-do-no-wrong thing - and physically they're still mostly holding back. Will his skinnyness be used against him in some way I wonder? If he's perceived as weak and wimpish, he will be the skinny boy at school. If he turns out to be a warmonger, then I can easily imagine Bell's colleague Martin Rowson turning him into a skeleton - morally dead, another corpse (though Rowson tends to turn everyone into corpses these days).

His stylish clothes and slickness might be aped as well - the man who's all style and spin, but no substance.

Now where have we heard that before?

[Strangelet]

Originally Posted by myrrh

So, wouldn't all this qualify that the Cult of Obama exists?

well yeah with definitions like those, you could say the donnie osmond fan club is a cult.

its the way humans are. so what, are we never going to be able to have a public figure that is generally loved?

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here's a nice example of the right spinning the issue - implant the obama cult, then link it to something else more harrowing

"It’s the 30-year anniversary of the mass murder/suicide at Jonestown. The toll was chilling: more than 900 lives ended, including 305 innocent children. We should never forget the deadly consequences of the cult of personality."

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/11/18...ing-jonestown/

[BeautifulBurnout]

OMG Obama is going to make 54% of the US population commit suicide!

I keep telling you, that woman is off her rocker. I don't even bother going there because she just has me saying very very rude words to my puter...

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i don't enjoy her bile; but it's worth keeping an eye on if only because she seems to set the fox news agenda...

[den]

Every day the Chicago Tribune puts giant links to articles and special sections on Obama on their website. There was even an article and online poll asking people if they had 'Obama Sex' the night of the election. I really hope that this circle-jerk journalism will stop. The sooner he gets down to business, the better.