Political Punch

I don't feel it is out of order to call some of Obama's supporters .... cultish. Get a grip people let the man do the job he has been elected to do. Im a Rep. and I will say so far I am pleased. Obama ran on the campaign idea to raise taxes on what he called the "Rich". I believed raising taxes was a hugh mistake and so did McCain.... and here we are just 2 months later and he is doing the opposite what he said he would do and exactly what McCain was going to do.... Think I may like this man! hahahahahahahah

There was another time in history when the intelligent masses blindly followed a charismatic leader who promised his people to restore their country to it's former glory.

Children sang songs of change. The people didn't use any critical thinking. They didn't ask enough questions. They trusted the government to fix their little troubles.

And then world war II broke out.

People - do not entrust another person to handle your mistakes. Trusting others will take care of you is why you're in trouble now.

Obama is not Hitler but Obama is a fraud. He is inexperienced. He will not save you.

But it is too late. Once the primaries ended we were already screwed.

As the great and prophetic LL COOL J once said... BAMA SAID KNOCK YOU OUT!

Wear your politics on your sleeve and on your t-shirt.

Obama shoud use OLD versus NEW instead of change.
OLD are te financial institutes that do'nt work. OLD is McCain. OLD versus NEW is positive, change merely says you dislike the current situation. OLD versus NEW you cannot McCain cannot copy like Change. Because he is OLD and never can play the NEW guy. Amaricans shoud admid that their capitalism and democracy (the OLD) should change. That's a hard thing for OLD people and figter pilots that build america. But building it doesn't give the right to bring america down by repeating old dreams. Every tome you say OLD v.s. NEW, you think at OLD McCain, OLD Banks and this McCain cannot copy, he is OLD.

These posts disgust me. I didn't start following this campaign until pretty late in the game but I too was a little nervous about Obama at the start.

But instead of making generalizations about the candidate and his followers or letting his opponent tell me what he was all about, I did my research. He's not perfect but according to factcheck.org, many of his proposals are achievable and from the looks of his speeches over the past few years (circa 02 though 07), he genuinely seems to want to move toward a less partisan structure, move on from Iraq while supporting the soldiers returning, and get America vested in renewable energy.

At least go to his website and check out the independent sites. The best thing about politics in the age of the internet is that we don't have to take politicians at their word anymore It's disturbing that so many people would prejudge a candidate now that when there is so much information to be had through a simple google search.

Have we forgatten that Biden plagiarized a political speech from a British student????

Now he is plagiarizing a Barak speech.

I also am afraid of Obama, his supporters do seem like a cult. It reminds me of Jim Jones. I have never seen anything like this, the media is falling all over themselves about him. They talk about real change, what is the change he is supposed to be making??? I haven't heard anything but him raising taxes and giving more money away to the "poor" people. Tax the rich and give to the poor. That is the way of the communist party. AMERICA, WAKE UP, DO NOT ELECT THIS ANTI-CHRIST!

America may be ready for a black president, but does that mean we are obligated to elect someone president, just because they are black? Obama has extremely minimal experience and minimal credentials, not to mention his 20 years joined at the hip with anti-American racists. Also, about 15% of our population is black, so in a democracy, why are the other 85% of us made to feel obligated to elect a black man? I think the problems confronting America today are too dire and too complex to elect someone who is less qualified, just because it is politically correct.

Thank you New Yorker magazine. Your cover reflects what many of us feel/think but don't dare say for fear of being called racist, etc. The carton is not funny or satirical, it's FACTUAL in essence. This is why it's so uncomfortable. It speaks to our inner voice. Thank you again for saying what I can't outloud!!!

Didn't Tim Russert and Joe Klein wept in NH when they witnessed a Bill Clinton's I feel your pain moment?

Hilarious that the Clinton sock puppets say Obama is an empty suit when he has two substantive bills that he co-authored now as laws and Hillary's total: ZERO! What can Hillary hang her hat on in her eight years as a senator? That Woodstock museum? $2.3 BILLION in earmarks requests? She has NEVER authored or passed anything remotely approaching something substantive and constantly lies about her "experience." Obama has plenty of substance if you choose to take the blinders off.

Obama is nothing more than a smooth-talking bureaucrat, a slick recruiter for the Church of Obama. As a Senator, he was INVISIBLE until he began campaigning for the presidency; he never even spearheaded ONE major piece of legislation, and STILL hasn't. I believe he is all hot air and will be as ineffectual in the White House as he has been in the Senate. Ineffectual, or INCOMPETENT. (To be fair, Hillary has been equally inactive in the Senate, and McCain is a flake who has voted all over the board. What a rotten choice of candidates we have this time around.)

Why should we expect Obama to rise to the occasion as a president when he couldn't even rise to exceptional prominence and brilliance in the Senate? His lackluster performance as a legislator is the only record we have of Obama's ability to govern (or not) at a national level, and it demonstrates to us that he is an empty suit.

Obama's worshipers have no cause for ecstatic celebration that he has finessed his way to the top of the Democratic candidacy. Instead, the glassy-eyed believers should think of him as a "junior executive" with no experience and probably no aptitude as a controlling authority; he will most likely make an unremarkable or wretched "CEO" if he is allowed to manage the institution that is America.

Notice how many Obama supporters use the word "shame" or variations of it when countering others opinions. Very interesting indeed...

Jake,

Clinton supporters have been saying this for months! lol.

Great article. Obama terrifies me almost as much as John McCain. He reminds me of Deval Patrick, governor of Massachusetts, who got elected after doing a very similar grassroots campaign. So far, the only things of importance he's done in office are change the Governor's car from a Crown Victoria to a Cadillac, and try and push through a casino bill that he himself has said won't pass. I think that for all his cheap talk and good looks, he will end up being a do-nothing if elected.

I COMPLETELY agree. I get a bad feeling when I see Obama on television. I dont know exactly what it is, but something about him really creeps me out and sets off my instincts. And, btw, his little futuristic logo with the sun over the stripes seems the most cultish of it all. Looks like doomsday to me.

like many political runners for the highest office in the land,the people never realy know what to exspect until the stage has been set and all the players are on stage for the grand opening.it's the not knowing that kills you.

I am personally disgusted by the blatant reference to Charles Manson's cult in relation to Barack Obama followers. As a previous commenter noted, much of the excitement over Mr. Obama comes more from a general sense of apathy, languor and general disgust at the current state of affairs in this country. Having to deal with George Bush's somber, grim demeanor for the past eight years has been eight years too long, and it has been decades since there has been a candidate who is so polarizing to so many different people. To mark Obama supporters as creepy is just a clue to me that Hillary's camp is starting to crap their pants a wee bit. Sure, Obama may be rising to favor more so by his enthusiasm and inspiring words, but Hillary is only rising because she is a lying, conniving, mudslinging bitch who will stop at nothing to get her way - even at the expense of her own political party.

This world is getting just a tad too nasty and jaded when those that are inspired by someone are likened to cult-followers.

I completely agree. The Obama cult creeps me out.

Helter Skelter? Really? You're comparing political enthusiasm to a group who brutally murdered a house full of people at the direction of its leader?

Back off, Tapper. You're way out of line.

Perhaps Obama's supporters are exuberant because there has been so little for the American people to be excited about lately. That doesn't make them loony or homicidally maniacal. Maybe you should go back and watch some of the footage of Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1968. Do you compare those excited citizens to Manson's marauders?