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The cult “was the campaign” to bring Obama “into power”

January 22, 2009 by GayPatriotWest

It’s always refreshing when a blogger, or, in this case, a blogress diva, you respect echoes a point I’ve made in a previous post.  Even if she didn’t read the post (& I highly doubt she did), it’s nice to know a smart pundit has a view similar to your own.

Just a few moments ago, when I discovered Glenn had just linked a post I had written on Monday, I followed another link in his post to learn that Ann Althouse echoed something I had written last week about former President Bush.

“Taking his popularity for granted in the wake of 9/11” I contended that Bush “didn’t work hard enough to burnish his image and defend his policies in the wake of unrelenting attacks on his character and motives.”  Today Ann Althouse reaches a similar conclusion:

Any glorification of [Bush] was a consequence of those events [attacks of 9/11] and not through a conscious campaign to inspire a cult of personality. . . .  When the love subsided, he and his people did little — too little — to pump us up again.

Exactly.

Ann, however, explores this issue of image with far greater depth than I did, comparing Bush team’s failure to build up their guy’s image with the Obama team’s dedication to that task:

By contrast, the entire plan to bring Obama into office depended on the glorification of the man, whose actual experience was so bizarrely limited that it took some nerve to claim to be ready. Magic was required. The cult grew up not as he held power and needed to respond to a crisis. The cult was the campaign to bring him into power.  It depended on our projecting all sorts of hopes and dreams onto him, and he knew it.

Read the whole thing. And bear in mind that these are not the rantings of an angry Obama opponent, but the thoughts of a woman who voted for the Democratic nominee last fall.  Indeed, Ann hopes that now that he’s in office, “he’ll do the job that must be done.”  I hope she’s right.

Related:  Why Leftists Assume Conservative Bloggers Revere Bush.

Filed Under: Blogging, Bush-hatred, Obama Worship & Indoctrination

Comments

  1. V the K says

    January 22, 2009 at 1:32 pm - January 22, 2009

    I find myself hoping that the media keeps up their fawning, worshipful treatment of the Dear One. Gradually (at first), people will come to doubt the media. If the media keeps up the mindless cheerleading for Obama, they’ll become a joke, and that will make it harder for him since the media have been carrying his water for him his entire career.

    Either that, or they’ll turn on him to *prove* they aren’t a joke.

    Either way, win-win.

  2. Kevin says

    January 22, 2009 at 5:02 pm - January 22, 2009

    What I find interesting is so many self-professed libertarians voted for Obama, despise the knowledge he was statist, unprepared, and tainted by Chicago politics. Althouse for one, McArdle for another…the list goes on.

    The press won’t turn on him as he’s their candidate and checks all the right boxes for them. However, I suspect he will make them even less respected. Personally seeing the Times and the DMN fold will make up to some extent for the oppressive gun and speech laws already being introduced. The draft will bother me thro.

    Now if the Republican party can just grow a pair and really be the opposition, but based on Hillary’s confirmation, it doesn’t look likely.

  3. Peter Hughes says

    January 22, 2009 at 5:53 pm - January 22, 2009

    #2 – Kev, the only Republican I know with a pair is Ann Coulter.

    ‘Nuff said.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  4. V the K says

    January 22, 2009 at 6:05 pm - January 22, 2009

    Wow, someone named “Kevin” made a sane remark on this blog. It really is a new era.

  5. Peter Hughes says

    January 23, 2009 at 10:28 am - January 23, 2009

    #4 – V, I think the poster above is the “good” Kevin, not the evil one.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  6. Kevin says

    January 24, 2009 at 9:22 pm - January 24, 2009

    You know I don’t think I’ve ever been called good before but yes, I’m different from that other fellow. I am the sane Kevin as I view it. I may need to start calling myself the Other Kevin so you can keep track

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