Sunday, September 13, 2009

Building the Cult of Personality


So, I was at Target yesterday browsing through DVDs, wishing I could afford Dexter Season 3, when I passed by the children's book section and see a portrait of Barack Obama staring at me. Barack is an illustrated biography chronicling Obama's inspiring rise from humble beginnings to President of these here United States.

Call me oversensitive, but it kind of freaked me out that parents would be willing to buy their kids propaganda for $17.99.

There was only one copy left, and I promptly buried it behind a dozen copies of Where the Wild Things Are.

8 comments:

  1. Between Coulter, O’Riley, Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck, the right has more than its fair share of book-toting propagandists. The right has even suggested the travesty of putting one of the worst presidents in history on money: Reagan.

    Which gets me thinking… they should put Bush on the trillion dollar bill. I’ll always remember him for his trillion dollar bills.

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  2. We're definitely looking at the development of a cult of personality.

    The NEA got caught redhanded soliciting artists to create works to push the President's agenda.

    These books are popping up everywhere - I saw a book about Barack Obama at Petsmart.

    He has expressed his sentiment that he plans on being President for a while ala Hugo Chavez changing the Venezuelan constitution.

    Make no mistake, Obama is a third world dictator in a first world government. He is acting accordingly.

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  3. "He has expressed his sentiment that he plans on being President for a while ala Hugo Chavez changing the Venezuelan constitution."

    I call bullshit.

    "Make no mistake, Obama is a third world dictator in a first world government. He is acting accordingly."

    LOL at the US still being a first world nation.

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  4. He's actually President of the World, and is leading us all into the progressive utopia. All who disbelieve are racist.

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  5. "You know, I intend to be president for a while." Direct quote from his Sixty Minutes Interview. Sounds like a man who loves power to me.

    As for being a First World nation, the United States is. Go look up what First World means. :D

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  6. Wow, a guy who ran for president who loves power, alert the media.

    If you really think Democrats could mobilize like that... well I just wish I had your faith in their ability to accomplish anything.

    He's clearly a two-termer based on charisma alone... unless one of the nutballs on the right or left get to him (never rule out the crazy people on the left; Oswald was a radical Communist).

    It's not that opposing Obama is racist. It's just that if you're racist, chances are very good you oppose Obama.

    And if you oppose government redistribution of wealth, you are a passive racist. If you hold down the poor, you disproportionately affect minorities. Free market capitalism promotes wealth consolidation among those who already possess it.

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  7. Implying 'minorities' are inherently going to be poorer is a very racist thing to say.

    Who knows, maybe racism is simply one symptom of the problems of viewing society in terms of groups and not individuals...

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  8. Opposition to the redistribution of wealth is racist? This is has become laughably typical of the liberal method of arguing. Screw the facts - if they oppose you, it's clearly racism.

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