chud wrote:Pat wrote:to me, in a word- Charisma.
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Obama clearly has excellent NLP skills, it's the only way to account for so many people looking past his paper-thin experience, socialist/marxist leanings, and radical affiliations; he just projects confidence and authority, while he redirects and misdirects criticism. Pretty amazing.
A.Experience means shit. George W.Bush is the example.
B.Powers Of Persuasion are EXTREMELY important in leadership.
C.MANY other politicians use suggestion, as well as do the producers of your favorite products. I don't see you condemning them.
D.He's not a socialist- that was a grossly distorted interpretation of what Obama said.
E.He doesn't have radical affiliations.
The terms "radical" "terrorist" etc... are in this case the last acts of a desperate party trying to hang on to power.
The United States in general has had REAL ties to "radicalism" for many years...
AND, just out of curiosity,why is it that people are "radical" when they hold opinions other than that of White America?
IE: Rev Wright.
Rev. Wright holds a view of a segment of the population that is still very angry about Slavery, Jim Crow, Segregation, and current subliminal racism.
It's not a great thing, BUT it's a reality.
It's a reality in segments of the Black community that there is anger, and there's nothing wrong with that.
To say there is, is just devaluing and disregarding the feelings of a portion of society that has been devalued and disregarded for so long.
It's not your responsability to understand or to even care or try-
But in not doing so-
In not caring enough to try to understand-
In disregarding the opinions of people like Wright by writing them off as being "extremeists" is to emotionally perpetuate the same line of action as has been done to African Americans for so long.
And if you want to mention Bill Ayers, What the Fuck does anything Bill Ayers ever did have to do with Obama?
How is Barack Obama guilty of something that Bill Ayers did when Obama was 8?
If that's the case, then the University that Ayers works at as should be shut down for association with Bill Ayers.
Everyone Bill Ayers knows should be chastised and crucified for knowing him.
Barack Obama is not guilty of anything with regards to Bill Ayers.
That's the most fuckin ass backwards argument ever made in the history of the world, the universe and all corresponding membranes.