OBAMA: Cult of Personality

We found an interesting exchange at Western Hero last weekend.  Kurt always provides us with fascinating posts, and his readers always provide interesting points of view.  In one exchange, Sam Huntington proposed that Islam is more of a cult than a religion; I thought he laid out a good argument for his point of view.  It made me wonder whether a similar argument pertains to the presidency of Barack Obama.  We have all seen visuals of his “messiah” personae, but is it true?

A personality cult appears whenever an individual uses mass media propaganda to create idealized, quasi-heroic public personae arising from unquestioned flattery and praise.  Personality cults aim to make the leader and the state synonymous, so that it is nearly impossible to make a distinction between them. 

This is possible whenever the leader owns the press —either as a function of the state, or by cooperative arrangement with liberal media.  The media alone has the ability to make or break an American politician.  As an example, the manner in which the press transformed Mitt Romney into the main story, rather than extremist attacks on our Embassy or the ineptitude of Obama foreign policy, evidenced by the unraveling of the Middle East.

Of course, we don’t for one moment think of this unraveling as a spontaneous event; it has been in the works since Obama gave his “New Beginnings” speech in Cairo in June 2009.    

Nevertheless, the cult of personality stands in direct contravention to the cult of individuality; we see this expressed in the writings of Karl Marx, Nikita Khrushchev, and in the behavior of Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Mao Zedong, and now, Barack Obama.  We began to notice this trend at the very beginning, as liberal teachers taught their first and second grade students how to chant adorations for Obama.  This trend continued as Barack Obama appeared at the Democratic convention in 2008 as a nearly Julius Caesar apparition standing among Roman columns.

Laughingly, Barack Obama recently appeared in front of network television cameras telling interviewers that he is seriously in danger of losing the 2012 election.  This is how people behave whenever they own the state and ministry of propaganda: they portray themselves as an underdog because doing this will earn for them one percentage point at the voting precinct.  We find this laughable because the only way Obama could lose this upcoming election is if the press suddenly disappeared from the planet tonight as the clock strikes twelve.

While the Middle East erupts in massive anti-American demonstrations, the Obama Administration contends that none of this has anything to do with Obama, or his administration.  This is a classic response of one engaged in the cult of personality.  No matter what happens, no matter how severe or dire the circumstances, we can always explain it away as someone else’s fault.  It goes far beyond “stuck on stupid.”  It is seriously psychotic.

We believe Barack Obama has based most of his Middle Eastern policy on what he thinks is his own unique ability to reach out to Muslims.  Why he thinks he can relate to these people, beyond his middle name, is mystifying —although, we suppose it is possible there could be a religious connection.  Well, in June 2009, he did tell the Muslim world that he could identify with their anger and frustrations. 

We think a clear majority of Americans have bought into this Obama Cult.  We think this will stand Mr. Obama in good stead in the November elections.  But apparently, the Middle Eastern people have not swallowed this bait—they are burning Mr. Obama in effigy.  It is enough to give us a renewed respect of Islamic peoples, but not so much for the folks here at home, Obama OR his cult followers.

-Mustang Sends.....with a tiny bit of input from Z

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