Obama: Cult of Personality x 2

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Wang Dang Doodle A-Coming

At least that’s what Pastor Manning says.  I first saw this video on Sugar N Spice and even though I’ve been aware of Rev.Manning for awhile now (who isn’t?) Sugar deserves props for spotlighting his latest proclamations.  Like him or not, he’s a hoot.

Some of “you people,” to paraphrase Obuhbuh, might not know exactly what a Wang Dang Doodle is.  Well, nobody’s really sure, but according to Koko Taylor, it sure sounds like a hoot, too.

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Who’re You Callin’ Republican?

A lot of Dems are so disgusted with the DNC’s “presumptive nominee” selection that they have either left the party or vowed to actively work against him.  Some are doing both.  This is a fact.  It’s a damned inconvenient fact for the best laid plans of certain people, but it is a fact nonetheless.  Understandably, this pisses a lot of those movers and shakers off, to the point that they go to ridiculous lengths to minimize the impact of that fact.  They call us deadenders, Clinton diehards, bitter, angry white women, sore losers and crybabies.  No big deal, even if some of us are really men, not all of us are white, most don’t feel like we’ve lost yet, and we’re all too pissed to cry.  We understand, the wannabe gamers are pissed too, so name-calling is to be expected.  But the worst thing they call us is (gasp!) Republicans!  Republicans?  Why would on earth would Republicans be upset if the Democrats nominate an inexperienced Nutty Professor whose whole campaign is based upon pie-in-the-sky classroom theory?  They should be so over-the-moon happy that hell, they could even run an unpopular, uncharismatic old geezer against him if they wanted to, and still expect to win. Calling people who are upset because they feel they are being strong-armed into voting for a candidate they find unacceptable Republicans is just stupid.  But, gee, that’s the Howard Dean for you.

The whole Republican smear is pretty dangerous, too, considering that CampO has it’s own dubious associations with the dark side.  There’s Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign against Alan Keyes for starters.  Alan Keyes?!?!!  C’mon, in the whole state of Illinois, (hell the whole country since they had to import Keyes from Maryland) they couldn’t find a more viable candidate against Obuhbuh than Alan Freakin’ Keyes?  Obuhbuh who had lost an earlier (2000) election for Congress to Bobby Rush by an embarrassing margin was so intimidating that all the good Republicans were quaking in their boots about the prospect of facing him, except Alan Flippin’ Keyes?  Suuuurrrrre, I buy that.

But I admit, I could be wrong, everything could be straight-up and above board; just because a guy has a tendency to benefit from the implosion of his oppositions’ campaigns doesn’t make him a Republican, right?  Just like it could be a coincidence of little to no importance that in 2006 a small group of GOPers  formed a group called Republicans For Obama for the express purpose, in their words, to “encourage Senator Obama to run for the Presidency.”

Then, there’s the now-famous Democrat For A Day campaign: