Wow! I just got done watching Houston drink the kool-aid that is Obama-mania. If you haven't read it, Charles Krauthammer had a great piece last Friday in the Washington Post that puts these speeches/cult revivals in context. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/14/AR2008021403105.html
"Obama's Super Tuesday victory speech was a classic of the genre (cult revival). Its effect was electric, eliciting a rhythmic fervor in the audience -- to such rhetorical nonsense as "We are the ones we've been waiting for. (Cheers, applause.) We are the change that we seek." "
If you watch these speeches with this framework you can see he is no different than any cult figure even setting up false enemies with lines such as "They said this couldn't be done" and "They say I must be naive, to talk about hope". The worst part is that the media outlets not only do not question any of his rhetoric, but rather seem to be nothing more than propoganda towers to brodcast his messianic message. Tonight he spoke for 45 minutes and every cable news network broadcast the speech in its entirety (after cutting away from an in-progress Clinton speech) with no commercials. Here's to hoping America shakes itself out of this trance before we make a big mistake! Now that's hope I can believe in!
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