Re: [Pen-l] The Obama cult

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 28, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:

> Recently I have noticed an interesting but disturbing phenomenon in  
> New York City. On the streets, subways and buses, you can see people  
> still wearing Barack Obama buttons even though the election is long  
> over. I wonder to myself whether these buttons express an inchoate  
> political/psychological yearning. In some ways it reminds me of how  
> people wore pictures of the fifteen year old guru Maharaj-ji, who  
> counted former 60s radical Rennie Davis as one of his main followers.

Seen in Fort Greene, a hotbed of the Obama cult. A poster in a shop  
window featuring portraits of JFK, MLK, and BHO. Caption: The Dream  
Lives On.

Dog
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