Monday, June 30, 2008

BARACK OBAMA

Barack Will Never Allow You To Go Back To Your Old Middle Name

I came across this on a comment at Talking Points Memo, of all places, from someone responding to a comment that Hillary Clinton was a narcissist...

"A cult may require members to change their name or other identifying characteristics to symbolically reject their former selves."

Why bring this up? Oh, no reason in particular...

Emily Nordling has never met a Muslim, at least not to her knowledge. But this spring, Ms. Nordling, a 19-year-old student from Fort Thomas, Ky., gave herself a new middle name on Facebook.com, mimicking her boyfriend and shocking her father.

“Emily Hussein Nordling,” her entry now reads.

With her decision, she joined a growing band of supporters of Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who are expressing solidarity with him by informally adopting his middle name.

I know, I know, you can't compare Obama's supporters to cult members. It's not like the leadership of the campaign runs around telling people that the campaign is a life-changing experience, and that they are going to have to symbolically reject their former selves...

"Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed."

Oh, dear.

06/30 08:48 AMShare