Home @ 03 Feb 2008 12:47 pm by Christina Waters
Isn’t anyone else getting tired of his mechanical chanting, the chilling delivery, the obvious manipulation?
The last time Americans voted for someone who spoke in such repetitive, glib generalities and revealed so little of substance about himself, we ended up with George W. Bush.
Obama is starting to bear an eerie resemblance to Bush in that he refuses to take any actual position. Mr. Neutral doesn’t say anything that might give someone an idea of where he’s actually coming from. Betting that less is more, he has carefully kept himself free of specific agendas, strategies or intellectual analysis - simply relentless style, a cold smile and natural social charisma. (Check out Robin Morgan’s resounding commentary at Women’s Media Center.)
The O man is a quintessential social construction - fueled by the media-driven frenzy in order to sell advertising. And the amount of air time they’re giving him has gotta amount to an illegal campaign contribution. Don’tcha think?
Martin Luther King, Jr. - a man who paid more than his dues, and whose exact speech patterns have been memorized by the O man - is spinning in his grave.
Yesterday C-SPAN broadcast an Obama rally at UCLA featuring Oprah Winfrey, Caroline Kennedy, Maria Shiver, Michelle Obama and Maria Elena Durazo, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Local LA AFL/CIO. Whereas, I respect the achievements of all of these women, I was upset by the emotional speeches they each gave about why everyone should vote for Barck Obama. No one gave any substantiated facts about his record nor about the methods he would use to “achieve the greatness he promises for America”. All I saw in the audience was the wide-eyed wonderment of the sheep who cheered the elevated cadences of these women’s speeches. Apparently shouting always makes the speaker believable.