i dont understand anything about this word "obmania"
it seems like a silly one-dimensional television meme that speaks entirely to how the rallies look on camera.
i have talked to a fair number of obama supporters and find their range of informed-ness about his policies to be not too much unlike any other range--this being amurica after all, land of wholesale conflation of political choices with other types of consumer activity. so there are system problems, not obama-supporter problems, which are expressed in the levels of buying a politician for his image.
besides, no=one who supported george w bush EVER, AT ALL is in a position to complain about the power of image in dictating political choice.
on the last two posts:
i don't consider obama particularly left in policy terms--that he can be taken as such by our more conservative to extreme-right comrades is an index of how far to the right the center has drifted across the last 20 years--this is an effect of (rapidly imploding) conservative mobilizations, an index of the extent to which conservative memes have infected even the terminologies that get thrown around as indices of relative position
in political terms, i think the ways in which obama's campaign has worked are kinda interesting and at time innovative---but i think the main driver behind much of the enthusiasm that he generates is that many many many many people are quite excited about the possibility of the united states collectively ridding itself of the multi-variate disaster that has been the bush administration.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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