The Glade 4.0

Cult of Personality

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/candance-m ... ersonality

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Wow, she just lays it right out there.

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

Sounds like just good campaign management. There's nothing dishonest or shady about what she's saying on that page. It's basically a reversal of the inept campaigns Gore and Kerry ran in 2000 and 2004.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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I agree with that actually, it's just that it cheats the voting public. They aren't seeing the real guy, just what the campaign folks can get away with.

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

http://www.lacan.com/zizpopulism.htm

"Against the Populist Tempation" by Slavoj Žižek

I've posted this previously, but I would suggest reading it if you haven't.

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I don't see a major problem with Obama's campaign there.. they played smart.

The problem was with the press and their willingness to accept this due to the slobbering love affair.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Well, I'd argue that's true in most cases with politicians. Nobody sees the real guy campaigning until he cheats on his wife or his taxes and gets caught. What they managed to cut back on is the sound bites taken out of context, scare tactics and similar from the other party, by controlling the flow of information. It isn't that you got a more or less accurate portrayal of the man than you did with the John Kerry campaign, it's that instead of seeing Obama the way the Republicans wanted you to see him (what Kerry fell victim to), they showed him how the democrats wanted you to see him. In either case, it's not accurate, it's just a matter of which party won the political battle.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UErR7i2o ... r_embedded

Seven lies in under 2 minutes!

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill