Unprecedented
or The Obama Superbowl
The amount of adulation afforded President Barack Hussein Obama is unprecedented, even unparalleled or unmatched. Never before in my lifetime have I witnessed such pandering, so much patronage to a political aspirant to the U.S. Presidency. The level of continuous media coverage by the major networks ABC, NBC, and CBS, of the Inaugural proceedings is unrivaled. I've witness a few in my lifetime, but, none even comes close to today's. The continuous air-time can only be matched by the coverage of JFK's assassination, and the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. They have further called Barack Obama an Agent of Change; Yes, it's true; I believe this is what they mean when use the term Paradigm Shift; We're in uncharted territory when it comes to all the propaganda and media blitz techniques (spin) being utilized. It's as if Obama is the Savior finally making his triumphant return. So, much idolatry is an abomination.
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From Lyndon B. Johnson, to Richard M. Nixon, to Gerald Ford, to Jimmy Carter, to Ronald Reagan, to George H. Bush, to Bill Clinton, and finally George W. Bush; None of these President's campaigns or eventual inauguration was provided so much coverage, or promotion. Well, the argument is that President Obama is the first African American ever elected to the office. I make a distinction in that the President is the first African-American, not, African American. His father the deceased elder Obama was not an American, but rather a Kenyan. We all know that Obama's mother was white, she's also deceased. So, the assessment that Obama represents the African American people is disingenuous; He is not the descendant of the sons and daughters of people brought to the Americas (North, Central, The Caribbean, and South America) as slaves. His parents met and procreated the President as a matrimony between a Kenyan Student, and an American woman (student) in Hawaii. There is no history shared with the Americans who were brought to the Western Hemisphere in bondage. So, please spare us the propaganda and spin. He's what has become "acceptable" to define as bi-racial; Not African American, just like Tiger Woods.
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What is most enigmatic about the whole propaganda campaign is that President Obama has few living relatives, except for a half sister Maya Setoro-Ng; Whom his mom had when she divorced his Dad, and married an Indonesian man. Yet, Obama's Mother, Father, and all Grand-Parents have passed away. Where are the interviews of his living relatives? Obama does have a number of half-brethren on his Father's side. He has eight half-siblings -- seven of them living -- by four other marriages or relationships of his parents: http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/familytree/545462,BSX-News-wotrees09.stng
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It's all unprecedented from the Superbowl ambiance of the Inauguration, to the meteoric rise in the Presidential Campaign, to his rising out of anonymity in the 2004 Democratic Convention to the present. It's all so hard to believe. Who is Barack Hussein Obama?
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Others say that all the celebration is because of the unpopularity of George W. Bush. If that's the case, it is a sad commentary on life in the American Republic; When people have to 'wait' out for a President's term to run out to get rid of him if he has completely governed by whim and not by the people's request. There is a precedent when it comes to the President having lost the favor of the people in recent history; This is the case of Bill Clinton which in spite of being impeached, resisted (unparalleled) and 'rode' out his term. To add to the peculiarity of the Obama (mystique) Administration, Bill Clinton will be back in Washington via his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton who will be the new Secretary of State. Go figure? So, George W. Bush is gone from office, yet, there's no excuse for all the gratuitous promotion for Obama.
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We've acquired a media spun President. Will he have a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame? He's a Superstar. This has been an award winning performance. My compliments to the producers and directors. (Also the Anchormen and women, and reporters). Bravo! Orson Wells couldn't have done a better job.
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