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The Crisis of the Obama Cult

Posted on | November 29, 2013 | 58 Comments

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail)

Ace nailed it the other day:

[T]he Liberal Chattering Classes are facing a question now: “Will my reputation and sense of pride survive Obama’s incompetence?”
And: “How absurd am I willing to make myself in order to cover up for this arrogant buffoon’s incompetence?”
Some people may begin to peel off — not because they’re not in-the-tank partisan shills, mind you, but because they’re in-the-tank partisan shills who still have some functioning sense of self-respect left in them.
They are beginning to realize that loving Obama means, in the end, hating yourself. You have to sacrifice everything for him — your honesty, your integrity, your autonomy. Your reputation, your legacy, your pride.
His incompetence and deceit are at such a level that he will not permit you to support him and retain a shred of self-respect for yourself.
Devotion to Obama requires destruction of the self. Obama is a jealous Messiah, and will not permit you to love anything else — even yourself.

Josh Marshall has gone all-in on self-abnegation. Other cultists may be less willing to “step out on faith” so boldly. Remember that the phrase “drink the Kool-Aid” is a reference to the means of mass suicide at Jonestown. And remember that Jim Jones was a leftist.

 


Comments

58 Responses to “The Crisis of the Obama Cult”

  1. MrEvilMatt
    November 29th, 2013 @ 2:44 pm

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  2. CHideout
    November 29th, 2013 @ 2:44 pm

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  3. Lockestep1776
    November 29th, 2013 @ 2:45 pm

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  4. Resista38176897
    November 29th, 2013 @ 2:45 pm

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  5. Lockestep1776
    November 29th, 2013 @ 2:45 pm

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  6. Citzcom
    November 29th, 2013 @ 2:45 pm

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  7. jwbrown1969
    November 29th, 2013 @ 2:45 pm

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  8. ArmorCavSpin
    November 29th, 2013 @ 2:48 pm

    Steel On Target estimate of the situation: The Crisis of the Obama Cult http://t.co/Wh81Yg4L9B

  9. richard mcenroe
    November 29th, 2013 @ 2:49 pm

    Living the Obamite life at this point is like being the little guy on the crutch at the finale of “Help!”

  10. 150_mac
    November 29th, 2013 @ 2:54 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM The Crisis of the Obama Cult http://t.co/wOt8HS8gK2 #TCOT

  11. dave_mears
    November 29th, 2013 @ 3:00 pm

    The Crisis of the Obama Cult http://t.co/BiK0EC2pZt @rsmccain – it’s not really his cult, he’s just the head priest at the moment.

  12. rsmccain
    November 29th, 2013 @ 3:56 pm

    The Crisis of the Obama Cult http://t.co/PJDosGjZrV Hat-tip @AceofSpadesHQ

  13. rsmccain
    November 29th, 2013 @ 3:57 pm

    RT @dave_mears: The Crisis of the Obama Cult http://t.co/BiK0EC2pZt @rsmccain – it’s not really his cult, he’s just the head priest at the…

  14. rsmccain
    November 29th, 2013 @ 4:01 pm

    @dustbury The fancy word I looked up, BTW, was “abnegation” http://t.co/PJDosGjZrV

  15. Earl Scruggs
    November 29th, 2013 @ 4:03 pm

    The Kool-Aid people will be sure to point out that they used Flavor-Aid at Jonestown.

  16. rrobertschwartz
    November 29th, 2013 @ 4:05 pm

    RT @rsmccain: The Crisis of the Obama Cult http://t.co/PJDosGjZrV Hat-tip @AceofSpadesHQ

  17. robertstacymccain
    November 29th, 2013 @ 4:07 pm

    Yes, I know. But nobody ever says, “Don’t drink the Flavor-Aid.”

    It’s a brand thing.

  18. embryriddlealum
    November 29th, 2013 @ 4:10 pm

    RT @rsmccain: The Crisis of the Obama Cult http://t.co/PJDosGjZrV Hat-tip @AceofSpadesHQ

  19. laurahollis61
    November 29th, 2013 @ 4:19 pm

    RT @dave_mears: The Crisis of the Obama Cult http://t.co/BiK0EC2pZt @rsmccain – it’s not really his cult, he’s just the head priest at the…

  20. Katie Scarlet
    November 29th, 2013 @ 4:23 pm

    LOL, You went to all the trouble to look-up abnegation and then got called out on Kool-Aid.

  21. BeccaJLower
    November 29th, 2013 @ 4:49 pm

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  22. Josh_Painter
    November 29th, 2013 @ 4:50 pm

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  23. Matthew W
    November 29th, 2013 @ 5:15 pm

    You don’t blow your nose on a facial tissue, it’s a Kleenex.
    It’s a brand thing

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  26. PensativeGuy
    November 29th, 2013 @ 6:29 pm

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  27. PensativeGuy
    November 29th, 2013 @ 6:29 pm

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  31. BobBelvedere
    November 29th, 2013 @ 7:14 pm

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  32. AmericanBand911
    November 29th, 2013 @ 7:46 pm

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  33. rsmccain
    November 29th, 2013 @ 8:09 pm

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    November 29th, 2013 @ 8:27 pm

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    November 29th, 2013 @ 8:54 pm

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    November 29th, 2013 @ 8:54 pm

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    November 29th, 2013 @ 9:12 pm

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  39. Eastwood Ravine
    November 29th, 2013 @ 9:38 pm

    Along with the Kool-Aid, they can eat Skittles. “Taste the rainbow!”

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    November 29th, 2013 @ 10:28 pm

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    November 29th, 2013 @ 10:29 pm

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    November 30th, 2013 @ 12:43 am

    Both Kleenex and Xerox have almost lost their respective trademarks because the names have become ‘generic words’.

    Yours…
    Cliff Clavin, USPS-Retired

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  45. Steve Skubinna
    November 30th, 2013 @ 10:17 am

    It’s tough to realize that you are not as smart as you think you are. Finding out that you’re downright stupid is nearly impossible to deal with.

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    November 30th, 2013 @ 11:49 am

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  50. DclareDiane
    November 30th, 2013 @ 4:30 pm

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