Re: [Pen-l] The Obama cult

["Jim Devine" <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think that the "Obama cult" isn't going to last long, what with Paul
Volcker and Hilary Clinton in major positions of power.

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.



-- 
Jim Devine /  "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange
days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL.
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