PROOF ITS A CULT....PROOF I SAY!!!!

[THUNDER HANDS]

This is Ethel, he's the longest-standing member of the cult, been in it 68 years, waiting for this moment.


A follow signs their name on the wall of death.


A young indoctronated soul tries to chew his way out of his chains.


A visibly shaken youngster plea's to be released from bondage.


A lineup of identical groupthinkers prepare for indoctronation.


Cast out from the cult, a former worshipper bids farewell to her life of insalvement.


That kool-aid tastes good, doesn't it, kid?


A snapshot of the Obama forced-labor camp in China.


Ebony and Ivory? No, cult leader Omega and cult leader Alpha.


Preparing the cross for the anointed one.


The messiah speaks, obviously terrifying this young woman.

[H2O Man]

1. They look dangerous.

They clearly pose a threat to our insecurity.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. perfect!

exactly.

[mdmc]

91. RIGHT ON

[SharonAnn]

118. A "life of ensalvement"? Death by ointment??? What???

[sellitman]

2. Onto the Greatest page!

Voted and kicked

[Bright Eyes]

3. All those poor cultists!

It amazes me, that Clinton supporters are allowed to get away with calling Obama supporters cultists, but if anyone DARED to call Clinton supporters cultists, we'd never hear the end of it.

Kicked.

[Bonobo]

95. .

[mckeown1128]

5. Kick and Rec..

Great pictures. This post really made me laugh. :spray:

[Scurrilous]

6. LOL

Hilarious!

:thumbsup:

[Deny and Shred]

87. I laughed too.. but this whole cult thing has me worried

Y'all do realize Obama is playing politics, and if the people in these pics are going to do the grunt work, he will accept it, yes? Even the staunchest Hil supporter will vote for Barack if he's on the ticket, yes? Seriously, I can't take 4 more Repub years, and the divisiveness I see on DU has been awfully stark.

Yo Scurilous, love the avatar. Keith was one of a kind. Got a picture on my wall of him exiting a limo with a stuffed dog on a leash, looking proud as a peacock, wearing a silver tux with pants at mid-shin. Hope the next boss ain't the same as the current boss - I'm sure you can decipher.

[Scurrilous]

114. Yep..

...Keith was an original.

:toast:

[Cooley Hurd]

7. Better to laugh at inane tactics than to raise our fists, I always say...

Excellent job, MR!:thumbsup::rofl:

K&R to the greatest page!:kick:

[underpants]

8. Wear are the black sweatsuits?

:shrug:

[JackintheGreen]

11. and the cool sneaks?

When do I get my effin' cool sneaks?!?

[stillcool]

9. I'm liking what is coming out...

of this 'cult' thing. Great pics...Thanks!

[zonkers]

72. Nominated. Fuuunnnny!!!!

[DiamondJay]

10. seriously it looks like Jonestown

[KittyWampus]

12. "A snapshot of the Obama forced-labor camp in China." What cuties :)

[Nickster]

13. My God it's terrifying. I'm afraid that I might be falling under the spell of this cult leader too.

[tridim]

14. Finally, a GD:P thread that is completely idiot proof

You stumped them. I've been trying to figure out how to do the same without much success.

Great images and funny commentary, thanks for posting.

[niceypoo]

16. Another 'cult' thread started by an Obamite

[tridim]

18. I stand corrected.

[Scurrilous]

35. LOL

:rofl:

[racaulk]

38. Snap!

:rofl:

[ForeignSpectator]

43. LOL absolutely LOL, that just had to happen, Murphy's law... n/t

[Tatiana]

99. OH Hell! DUzy-worthy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:rofl:

[liberalhistorian]

49. You people just never give up, do you?

We are not O-bots, Obamababies, Obamabozos, waiting for the Obamessiah (all things we've been called on here). We are Obama supporters, period. What's the matter, you afraid of a little democracy in action? You think Hillary should just automatically be crowned the Queen?

[murielm99]

60. How many does that make now?

I have counted nineteen in the last two days.

Is this to detract from the lack of substance in his message?

[DarkTirade]

70. If you make something idiot proof...

someone will just go and build a better idiot.

[niceypoo]

15. Cult of personality

A http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality">cult of personality or personality cult arises when a country's leader uses mass media to create a larger-than-life public image through unquestioning flattery and praise. Cults of personality are often found in dictatorships but can be found in some democracies as well.

A cult of personality is similar to general hero worship except that it is specifically built around political leaders.

[stellanoir]

17. Clearly

they are all mind controlled zombies and their eyes are totally vacant. . .NOT.

great picts

thanks

[DavidDvorkin]

19. Brilliant post

[alteredstate]

20. Magic Rat

This is hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!

[THUNDER HANDS]

21. thank you

:)

[davsand]

22. This just made my trip into GDP worth it!

Magic Rat, you rock! Best EVER!


Laura

[yardwork]

23. I'm a Hillary supporter and I love this thread!

Look, most of us think that this "cult" thing is stupid. I've never called anyone supporting Obama a member of a cult. The only people I ever refer to as "brainwashed" are freepers.

Don't believe everything you hear on the internets. And thank you for this thread. I will proudly vote for Obama or Hillary - whomever gets the nomination.

[workinclasszero]

24. Thanks for the post!

Love the pictures.

Democratic swifterboaters can go piss up a rope!

The people back Obama. They are afraid of these little children and all the good democrats that support Obama! Shame on them...

[polichick]

25. Just spoke with someone in Rome...

The cult has spread all the way to Italy ~ they're pulling for Obama over there!!!

GREAT POST ~ thanks!

[alteredstate]

36. This must be bad news for those who are planning to flee the country

in a desperate effort to prevent the indoctrination of their family members into this dangerous group.

[polichick]

39. Lol - and forget the rest of Europe too...

According to my friend in Rome, Obama's the man everywhere he travels!

[Yuugal]

42. I planned on fleeing the country

but my gf and ex-wife and kids won't let me leave if Obama wins! Help me, please! They seem to be filled with some sort of optimism and since I'm a Mets fan I know how dangerous that can be....

[druidity33]

108. ahh

The Knicks destroyed my optimism, not yet the Mets. Give them a couple of years to lose WITH the best pitcher in the game on their side. THEN i'll be a confirmed Cynic.

:shrug:

[newmajority]

67. I KNEW IT!!! IT'S A VATICAN/CULT CONSPIRACY !!!!!11!!!!!!!111!!!!!

CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN RIGHT FUCKING NOW !!1!! THIS IS SERIESLY HUGH!!1!!!!!!111

[CorpGovActivist]

26. I have the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch...

... and I'm not afraid to use it!

:rofl:

Nice work!

- Dave

[Kittycat]

27. Great post!!

Posters above me said it best, but perspective is an eye opener. Gobama!

[TexasObserver]

28. for the times, they are a changin!!

Dylan is relevant again.

[rch35]

51. Dylan is always relevant nt

[Raiden]

29. Best. Post. Ever.

I love it!!!:patriot:


:kick:

[Straight Shooter]

30. Someone could post pics of individuals attending Barack rallies and buttress the cult argument.

Where are your pics of people chanting, like they're spellbound?

People see what they see, based on their life experiences. What I see from Barack is, "If it feels good, believe it."

[FlyingSquirrel]

33. I have news for you....

People usually go for the candidate which engenders and/or embodies the most optimism.

http://www.ppc.sas.upenn.edu/cvabs.htm#ab119

119. Abstract from Pessimistic ruminations predicts defeat of presidential candidates, 1900 to 1984.

Two psychological variables, pessimistic explanatory style and rumination about bad events, combine to predict depression and susceptibility to helplessness. We hypothesize that these variables should also predict the appeal of a presidential candidate’s message, and analyzed pessimistic rumination in Democratic and Republican nomination acceptance speeches from 1948 to 1984. A blind, reliable content analyses showed that the candidate who was more a pessimistic ruminator lost 9 out of 10 times, and the victory margin was proportional to the difference between the candidates in pessimistic rumination. This was not due to a poor showing in the polls at nomination leading both to pessimistic rumination and defeat. Partialing out incumbency and standing in the polls around the time of nomination, the pessimistic rumination difference correlated with the victory margin (partial r=.89, p<.01). This basic finding was replicated for 1900 to 1944. The pessimistic ruminator lost 9 of 12 elections, and the difference in pessimistic rumination correlated with the size of the loss (r=.71). Three mechanisms are proposed by which pessimistic ruminators should lose: (a) voter aversion to depressive personalities, (b) the appeal to voters of hope, and (c) candidate passivity. As evidence for the third mechanism, pessimistic ruminators make fewer stops per day on the campaign trail. These results suggest that the American voter, across historical periods, place a high premium on the appearance of hope.

-----

Now I'm not saying Hillary Clinton is a pessimist. Just that Barack Obama is MORE of an optimist than Hillary, which bodes well for his future in the coming months.

[Straight Shooter]

46. I have news for you, too :)

"It's morning in America." "Sunny optimism." Ronald Reagan. It was a crock then, it's a crock now. It's all packaging. One reason I refuse to watch television is because of advertising, which incidentally Rove took great advantage of people's susceptibility to packaging in 2000 and 2004.

Give me a realist, a pragmatic politician who doesn't rely on evangelical rhetoric to bring his/her message to the people, and maybe I won't be so leery. Give me someone with the courage to actually vote on critical issues and make a permanent historical record, instead of flowery speeches. (For example, the votes regarding condemnation of MoveOn, Kyl/Lieberman)

From The Village Voice:

"Once in a while, Obama makes a passing reference to our diminishing individual liberties, but hardly ever in his stump speeches. At an early-morning rally the day of the New Hampshire vote, he told some 300 students at the Dartmouth College gym: "My job this morning is to be so persuasive . . . that a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany, and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Barack."

[murielm99]

61. During the 2004 campaign,

people were posting pictures of starry-eyed bush supporters and making fun of them. They looked like they were at a tent revival meeting.

The shoe is on the other foot now.

[flpoljunkie]

31. Wonderful photos! "VOTE FOR OBAMA, YOU KNOW YOU WANNA!" Love that one!

[K Gardner]

32. Oscar Nod for Best Cinematography, Best Subtitles and overall BEST IN SHOW !!!

[THUNDER HANDS]

40. thanks : )

:hi:

[Skwmom]

34. Now that was funny!

[racaulk]

37. Awesome post!

Very funny! Thank you for this! :rofl:

:thumbsup:

K&R

[Vektor]

41. OMG - this is hysterical.

I love those cute little kids!

[TheDonkey]

44. Great pics. On a serious note, this is why Obama is good for America

he really does bring people off all types together. Shillbots may view people working together and feeling hopefully as cultish but it really is just AMERICAN.

[ForeignSpectator]

45. Can only imagine how you must have cracked up while making that post...

Absolutely funny post and the kids are great, too!

[NanceGreggs]

47. BRILLIANT!!!

:kick: :applause: :kick:

[ForeignSpectator]

48. Brilliant, too! That's right! n/t

Hey there Nance, gonna write something about the primaries? :hi: Sure you hear that often, but love your stuff...

[Bullet1987]

50. ROFL!!!

[Danger Mouse]

52. Traitor, how dare you show our secret rituals?

You will pay the blood price.

[Bullet1987]

53. ALL HAIL OBAMA!!! ALL HAIL OBAMA!!!

[Danger Mouse]

54. OH DEAR LORD OBAMA, LET ME KISS YOUR ROBES!!!!

:crazy:

[Apollo11]

55. Here's another reporter for your blacklist

THE INDEPENDENT (London, England)
Friday, 8 February 2008

A man who sounds like a winner already

By David Usborne in New Orleans

This was a new Barack Obama, liberated from the anxiety of the multiple Super Tuesday contests, buoyed by the realisation that the knock-out punch that Hillary Clinton had once predicted for herself that day had not come to pass and energised by the new flood of cash being given to his campaign.

Super Tuesday was also Mardi Gras, of course, and the necklace beads were still hanging from the live oaks along St Charles Avenue when supporters started queuing for Mr Obama shortly after a chilly dawn.

Louisiana holds its primary tomorrow, though most people here – a crowd more iPhone than Lower Ninth Ward – knew who they will vote for. "Yes he can!" is still the favourite chant.

And Mr Obama, who travelled also to two more states voting tomorrow, Nebraska and Washington, did not tire them with his pre-Super Tuesday addresses.

True some of his better jokes have survived, like the "embarrassment" of discovering last year that Dick Cheney is a cousin. It was a speech not even much about his stalemated match with Mrs Clinton. He did not mention her. It was about New Orleans and most of all about the "broken trust" between the city and the federal government in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. And it was delivered by a man sounding like he had won the nomination already. "When I am President of the United States, I will..."

The near-messianic cadences – uplifting to his followers, disconcerting to critics – remained of course. Barbara Ganucheau, 47, high in the stands, calls Mr Obama her "prince". When he appeared she began to cry. She was weeping still when he was done. "I get the chills from my toes to my head," she says of the candidate. Why is he her candidate? "It comes from inside of me, I just know."

(...)

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/a-man-who-sounds-like-a-winner-already-779819.html

[Straight Shooter]

56. "I get the chills from my toes to my head,"

What is he? A virus?

This weeping thing gives me the creeps. Now he's a prince to some people. Those are the photos and comments that should be combined into a thread. Show the other side of this campaign and how it affects people, like a religious experience. He sure is touching the hippocampus on a mass scale, I'll grant him that.

[Binka]

120. Your Profile States Hiking Is Your Hobby

Maybe you should take one.

[FATCATs]

57. Yep, Now I real scared

:scared: :scared: :scared:

[Thrill]

80. LOL

[Guava Jelly]

58. He is evil!!

I knew I liked him for some reason.

[Matariki]

59. Great post!

[XemaSab]

62. The last picture she's making Sophie's choice...

Sorry, little girl... :scared:

[Nitrogenica]

63. Thank you for posting this.

[D23MIURG23]

64. My GOD!! Its gotten more serious than I thought!!!

Or maybe its just sour grapes on the part of the Clinton stalwarts who's candidate can't generate any excitement or enthusiasm whatsoever.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

65. TEH CULT! TEH CULTZZZZZZ!!

:rofl::rofl:

Beautiful pics. :thumbsup:

[sfam]

66. I love it! Great reply! nt

[mzmolly]

68. Cute, and a great idea I might add. Embrace the "cult" meme and reveal it for what it is.

Ignorance. :hi:

[Labors of Hercules]

69. I DIG YOU!!!

[blogslut]

71. The man is a blowhard!

See?



;)

[Rosa Luxemburg]

73. When "they" say "Cult" it means there are very desperate

they HRC and her Repub;icans are very very desperate

[ginnyinWI]

78. and I think going negative will blow back on them. n/t

[Arugula Latte]

74. Magic Rat, you freakin' RULE!

:rofl:

:applause: :applause: :applause:

[Laurab]

75. BEST. Post.In.A.Long.Long.Time

says this cult member!!!111

[shireen]

76. nice photos!

did you take them? do you know if they came from the same photographer? It has a really nice genuine feel ....

[SalmonChantedEvening]

77. Magic indeed

Superb post, great pics and brilliant captions!!

:applause: :patriot:

[usregimechange]

79. Only a Magic Rat could produce such glory!

[ProudBlue08]

81. Awesome!

This is great

[bagimin]

82. K&R

Hysterical.

:rofl:

[Umbram]

83. I could care less whether HRC or BO wins, but....

I approve of this post.

[ecstatic]

84. I enjoyed the pics. Thanks for making my trip to GDP

fall short of being completely disgusting.

[bluerum]

85. Damn. If only you could spell,,,

[THUNDER HANDS]

86. it's the kool-aid

it deactivates your inner spell-check. ;)

[Binka]

121. Those three commas show how smart you are

Punctuation grammar cops need to be more careful.

[lib2DaBone]

88. Get ready for "Change"

Change is coming alright. Large tent cities set up underneath freeway overpasses. :scared: "

[guruoo]

89. Exactly how the Obama camp should have handled it in the first place.

Better late than never, I suppose.

[FogerRox]

90. I like snark, and this is snarlolicious, KnR

[grantcart]

92. cult member/ duer (me) can be seen

on the far right about half way up with the head sandwiched between the tilted sign and the man in the white shirt standing and applaucing.

The speaker is a 93 year old korean woman who warmed up the audience with stories about racial encounters in the deep south 60 years ago. She moved to the back of the bus so that she could sit in the 'black only' section but the bus driver told her that she had to sit in the white section. She was a hoot, and a cult member.

[Bonobo]

93. Lovely movement of hopeful Americans = Cult

[StarryNite]

94. You should have had a warning!

Now I'm going to have nightmares about all those poor people!

Actually you did a wonderful job! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :toast:

[Califooyah Operative]

96. Thank You Magic Rat! nt

[CadenBlaker]

97. Nice!

Now this is my kind of cult!

[Name removed]

98. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[KitchenWitch]

100. Fucking EAT something then.

[lisainmilo]

101. very nice! great photos!

:-)

[davidlynch]

102. Thank you for posting this was very inspirational n/t

[WildEyedLiberal]

103. The fact that this has nearly 150 recs....

.... makes it pretty clear to me that there's a "silent majority" of GDP lurkers who have no desire to get involved in the shitslinging who are fucking sick of Camp Hillary's grotesque sense of entitlement and juvenile namecalling.

[ClintonTyree]

104. Pot, meet kettle.....

like Obama supporters haven't been doing their share of the same. :eyes: It's been a two way street here the entire way. To single out "Camp Hillary's grotesque sense of entitlement and juvenile namecalling" (sic) is utterly disingenuous. Get a grip.

[dragon82a]

107. I don't have a problem with this

As an Obama supporter, I think its pretty funny.

However, for the Clinton supporters who are Rabid about this. Think about this. Myself and many others have decided that we will vote for whatever crazed repubthug when Clinton takes the nomination.

Why?

1. At least we will get screwed openly rather than in the subtle ways that Clinton will do.

2. Anyone is better than what will be 28 years of either Clinton or Bush rule.

[ClintonTyree]

119. You're not a Democrat then....

you're a cultist, preferring to shoot yourself in the foot rather than support a Democrat for the Presidency. Go ahead, hold your breath until you turn blue. Stick your fingers in your ears and say "neener, neener, neener". You really SHOULD be ashamed of yourself for supporting a Republican over a Democrat, if that situation arises. But as I've come to discover, most Obama supporters have no shame. They're only in it for themselves and to hell with everyone else if they can't get their way.

How do you live with yourself? Disgusting. :puke:

[stickernation]

105. obama supporters are super sweet in general.

sometimes on these boards it's been a bit tough to handle, but after realizing that I fundamentally *like and respect* frenchiecat, I have come to understand just how much we have in common.

i want to assure you that it is purely my concern about Obama's advisors - such as Zbigniew Brzeznski - that make me super concerned that the kool-aid that is being passed out at Obama rallies has not been pissed in by Karl Rove.

forgive the ugly comparison... but it is a LOT easier to fool a BUNCH of people than it is to fool a single one, because that bunch will convince one another. to an outsider, this is the obama "cult" - a group of very nice people that are very in love with one another, as they should be, without truly looking at the soul of the candidate they support.

once again, will support the democratic nominee in november. just want to make sure the obama faction is able to answer: WHY ZBIGNIEW BRZEZENSKI ?!?!?!? and if you don't know who that is, you need to find out, and you need to learn about his innate conspiracy with the evils of modern-day Iraq. and if you don't CARE, frankly, get the heck out of politics as YOU KNOW NOTHING.

thanks obama supporters for being so damn cute though, it is truly cool seeing these photos and the good humor surrounding them.

ok i will bust it out: :rofl: that was freakin funny :)

-s

[Perry Logan]

106. Ah, but the poor people at Jonestown looked cute and sweet, too.

I'm pulling your leg. I do not for a moment think the Obama thing is a cult.

[Honeycombe8]

109. I worship at the altar of allthingsobama...praise be to the Mother Ship......

scottiebeammeup!

obamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobamaobama.....


Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
:hippie:

[BringBigDogBack]

110. Hahah

just saw this. Cute pics.

So a candidate running for prez is inspiring... Oh no, not that. What a terrible thing to have in a candidate, someone who connects with people. Run for your lives! Before it's too late, and you too are assimilliated into the collective. :evilgrin:

[Bitwit1234]

111. Have you ever seen pictures of the diversified group of people

kids and all, who belonged to Jim Jones ""group". Have you ever seen the group of people who belong to "Phelps Group"....to David Karaich Group.....Cults come in all sizes, colors, and age groups......that's the problem a lot of people can't recognize one until it is too late.

[psychopomp]

112. I so want this man to be the next President

People feel positive again!:bounce:

[awaysidetraveler]

113. Ethel is terrifying, and those poor children.

Kudos to you: this is a great response to the cult criticism.

I've written a post on a Turkish point of view on the Iraq War, and I'm curious as to what you might think.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4482617&mesg_id=4482617

Best of luck.

[THUNDER HANDS]

116. wow

i think that was an awesome post. Good insight.

I was curious, do you have any photos of where you are that you could post? I've never seen what Turkey looks like. Are you still feeling kinda tourist-ish, or do you feel like you've settled in there yet?

:hi:

[awaysidetraveler]

117. I'm settling in pretty well, and I have plenty of photographs.

Only I'm still figuring out how to post them.

I'll send you a few photos when I figure it out, and thanks.

[Strelnikov_]

115. "the longest-standing member of the cult" No, there are two in Iowa

that are older.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4482950&mesg_id=4482950