Re: [Pen-l] The Obama cult

[Sandwichman <lumpoflabor@xxxxxxxxx>]

Time for another Two Minute Hate?


On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
> When I spoke to a fellow radical in my department at Columbia University
> about my concerns, his eyes lit up and he said:
>
> "I know exactly what you mean. There's this guy in my health club who wears
> an 'Obama Knows' t-shirt. The other day I went up to him and asked him,
> 'Knows what?' He really couldn't answer me."
>
> At some point I will ask one of these Obama button wearers the same kind of
> question. What's up with the Obama button? What are you trying to say? I
> once asked someone wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt the same kind of question.
> Trust me; they did not decide to wear the t-shirt after reading "Socialism
> and Man in Cuba".
>
> full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/the-obama-cult/
>
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