Posted by
Dwayne Horner on Thursday, February 28, 2008 10:14:32 PM
I was watching an old episode of M*A*S*H, you know the one where they ran out of pain killers and had to use sugar pills as a placebo. If you sell it well enough, they'll believe it is what Colonel Potter said. It doesn't have to be made of anything, but if they believe it does, they'll feel better.
This past week, one of the biggest controversies has been what do you call Barack? Well, his mother and father called him Barack Hussein Obama. Other's have had the three names used....ow about Richard Millhouse Nixon. I've even heard Dwight David Eisenhower. We've all heard Hillary Rodham Clinton...so much so it caused Rush to use her maiden name in parodying All-President Adviser David Rodham Gergen. The feminist loved it, the three name era was alive and well.
Now, we've got name-gate with the likely Democratic Nominee: Barack Hussein Obama. First, it was Cincinnatti's Conservative Talk Show Host Bill Cunningham's
introduction of John McCain that included three uses of the "middle" name. You would have thought he would have called him Dubya or something, because John McCain immediately denounced the comment. In a time when Sen. McCain NEEDS the help of Conservative Talk Show Hosts, it doesn't seem wise to repudiate one in Ohio of all places. Second, the Tennessee GOP gets into it with a
press release that ruffled the feathers of not the DNC, but the RNC?!?!
So, we cannot use the middle name because it reminds us of a certain dictator that we removed that in turn has saved countless number of lives of innocent Iraq citizens. Obama, hmmm, sounds too much like the mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. What do we call this man?
Well, take a deep look at the candidate himself. When asked why they are supporting him, many cannot give you anything beside "change" or "hope." Have them name one substantive thing he has accomplished, and talk about a deer in the headlights look. Just ask Texas State Senator Kirk Watson and his "
want to get away" moment on MSNBC!
So, back to the question, what do we call him? Let's go back to M*A*S*H for inspiration...ready for Barack Obama's new name? He is the "Placebo Candidate." Yep, that's right. Sell it long enough, and it works without anything inside because the people MAKE their minds THINK it works. For years, anyone who listened to Rush Limbaugh was labeled a "mind numbed robot" by the left, well now they have their own legion of mind numbed robots. (even though Rush's listeners actually have true self-inspired thoughts in their brains.) Robots who are flocking to someone without substance, but with a ton of style.
When I got questioned, "Why do you like Mike Huckabee?" I could always come back with..."he left Arkansas with a budget surplus of 850 million dollars" or "he's been fighting for th life of the un-born before he entered politics." I had an answer. The Barackobots, nothing. Oh, wait, Hope. Or Change. Style, not substance.
The "Placebo Candidate!" Pla-ce-bo: "a substance having no effect but given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a medicine." Sounds like the Obama Campaign to me! Folks, we've got a name!
UPDATE: Now he is the
Christian Leader? Check out
this flier that is being used in Texas by the Placebo Candidate. "My faith teaches me that I can sit in church and pray all I want, but I won't be fulfilling God's will unless I go out and do the Lord's Work," Barack Obama. Excuse me? Being For Partial Birth Abortion (Voted against the Hyde Amendment) and For Abortion is not doing the "Lord's Work" my friend. What a fake and empty individual. And what does it say about his followers?