Posted by James V. Lacy at 12:00 am on Jan 17, 2009 Comments Off on Cult of Personality evident on Obama Love Train
As the Obama Love Train makes its way
from city stop to city stop to the inaugural in Washington, D.C.,
the idea of a budding "cult of personality" is becoming starkly
real.
The Wikipedia
definition of cult of personality or personality cult "arises when
a country’s leader uses mass media to create a heroic public image
through unquestioning flattery and praise. Cults of personality are
often found in dictatorships. Acult of personality is
similar to general hero worship, except that it is created
specifically for political leaders. "
The major examples of "personality
cult" leaders all come from one-party states where the leader
controls all the media. Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and the
"Great Leaders Kim" of North Korea.
Everytime that Love Train stops, and
Joe Biden finishes his saccharine introduction, the high fldelity
speakers start blaring some of the most pompous and bombastic music
I’ve ever heard associated with a politician in
America.Maybe Communist Romania, but not
America.
And though the Goverment and Obama don’t… Read More