Obama's Creepy Cult of Personality
he Presidency: Last week, the Obama campaign started selling a refashioned American flag with its logo replacing the stars, and then urged Americans to pledge allegiance to Barack. Did we just wake up in Mao's China?
The flag print, designed especially for the campaign by a pair of obviously incredibly hip artists, tries to improve the musty look of Old Glory by taking out a few stripes and swapping the star field for the Obama "O" logo. The campaign is selling the limited edition prints for just $35.
Amazingly, this isn't the first time the American flag has been desecrated to better suit Obama sycophants.
Earlier this year, a local Democratic Party headquarters in Florida decided to fly a flag that replaced the stars with a photo of our Dear Leader.
Bad as these flags are, the Obama campaign's "pledge" drive is even more disturbing.
The "For All" effort encourages celebrities, politicians and regular folk to submit photos of themselves with their hands — on which messages are scrawled — held over their heart, pledging to vote for Obama so he can provide (fill in the blank) "For All!"
Equal pay ... For All!
Women's rights ... For All!
Food ... For All!
A Future ... For All!
The only thing missing from these frightful pictures is the new and improved Obama flag.
It's one thing for Obama to encourage all this — which he obviously does. After all, this is a guy who promised he would heal the planet and keep the oceans from rising, and made himself the subject of his only two books.
He's the guy who ran around during his first campaign with a fake presidential seal that replaced the stars and stripes on the eagle's shield with, naturally, the Obama logo. And he's the guy who gave his first acceptance speech in front of a bunch of faux Greek columns.
He's the guy who, when Neil Armstrong died, saw fit to commemorate that event by tweeting a picture of himself, and the guy who'd rather talk with David Letterman and party with Jay-Z than work with Benjamin Netanyahu to stop Iran from going nuclear.
But the question is, why are so many Americans so willing to voluntarily buy into Obama's personality cult?
Remember that will.i.am video from Obama's first campaign?
Or the equally creepy video of elementary school students signing Obama's praises:
"Mmm, mmm, mmm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said that all must lend a hand
To make this country strong again
Mmm, mmm, mmm!
Barack Hussein Obama."
Or how about the endless news photos of Obama with his head centered in the middle of a circle in the background, giving him the appearance of being surrounded by a halo.
Anyone want to guess how many times a press photographer decided to snap a picture of Reagan like that?
In totalitarian countries, leaders can force their greatness on unwilling subjects because they own the press, they own the entertainment industry and they own all the schools.
But here in the U.S., we don't worship our presidents. We hire them to do a job for us. And we only pledge allegiance to the flag — the one with 50 stars and 13 stripes.
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