What do goats and Obama supporters have in common?
Some of them are prone to Fainting. Obama's stirring speeches about hope, change, peace, love and understanding , are having a curious effect on some of his adoring fans. James Taranto, "We Shall Be Overcome", has the details:
"A woman standing in front of the stage appeared to faint as Obama spoke about Iraq," the Associated Press reported.
"Before the senator arrived, students were tossing around an inflatable cow above the crowd. Three people fainted in the midst of all the enthusiasm." (reported WISN-TV)
"Barack Obama's first and only rally on election day came to a sudden and lengthy stop when a young woman in the Dartmouth College gym fainted, and was eventually rolled off on a gurney by emergency medical technicians," the Los Angeles Times reported."And when a woman appeared to faint in the standing-only VIP section in front of the podium, Obama paused his speech for over a minute as he directed the crowd to make way for an EMT team and tossed a bottle of water from the stage," reported the Yale Daily News.
"Climate change, the Iraq war and Obama tossing a bottle of water to a woman about to faint all received big cheers," MSNBC.com reported.
As Michelle said, pass the smelling salts...and the barf bag. The creepy - and getting creepier - swooning Obama groupies are responding to his all rhetoric no substance campaign. Empty heads gushing over an empty suit.
Unreal. He hasn't done anything of note and doesn't say anything besides change and it's like mob hysteria! I recall seeing women dressed as nurses in black churches to take care of the overcome people! Should these people even be allowed to vote if they are so easily overcome?!
Posted by: Linda | February 16, 2008 at 09:50 PM
I'll bet you anything they're faking it.
Posted by: Scott Allan | February 16, 2008 at 10:40 PM
This is the song that Obama reminds me of.
http://www.hamienet.com/midi7595_Superstar.html
Barack Obama, Superstar.
Who are you, what kind of change are you are talking about?
Barack Obama, Superstar,
Who are you, what kind of change are you are talking about?
Barack Obama, Superstar
Who are you, what kind of change are you talking about?
Adoph Hitler could really rally those masses, and Olde Joe Stalin could make them walk barefoot through broken glasses, And Ho Chin Minn, he could bring the crowd in, and that Po Pot he know how his words could make them hot...
Now do you believe?
Now Marshall Applewhite made them think that they were going to go to Heaven on a comet, and David Koresh he sent his faithful on a path to Armageddon. And of course we all know about olde Jim Jones. His people did what he told em and that Kool-aid got overflowin...
Now do you believe? (the mesmerized crowd shouts back Yes we Believe) Now do you believe?(louder) Yes, we believe! Hallelujah now get that sister some water (the front row of women then faints).
Barack Obama, Superstar,
Who are you, what kind of change are you are talking about?
Barack Obama, Superstar
Who are you, what kind of change are you talking about?
Now do you see yourself as as Che's Second comin... Or maybe you set yourself up on a path even higher. Perhaps you do see yourself as the new Messiah, start a new religion with you as its idol.
Do you believe?
Cults of personalities well they very rarely end well and with yours it could set the earth a trembling... For when you come unglued as all cult leaders in the end do, you could push that nuclear button and set the earth afire..
Barack Obama, Superstar,
Who are you, what kind of change are you are talking about?
Barack Obama, Superstar!
Who are you, what kind of change are you talking about?
Barack Obama, Superstar!
Turing America into one big Manson Family
Barack Obama, Superstar!
Turning America into one big Manson Family!!!
Posted by: Steve | February 17, 2008 at 02:51 AM
Scott, Yes they could be faking it (maybe to get that bottle of water from Obama?) I'm waiting for some love-struck woman to throw her undies at him.
I have nothing against stirring, inspirational speeches, but this is getting ridiculous. Some of his "followers", (voters!) are getting downright creepy. His wife said in a speech at UCLA that "we have to fix our souls" and Obama is the only one who understands this. Captain Ed wrote about it here:
http://tinyurl.com/yrpjpq
Sell your soul to Obama so it can be fixed. Too many people are falling (literally) for it.
Posted by: mad_cow | February 17, 2008 at 07:04 AM
The New Kids on the Block had the same effect. Where are they now?
Posted by: Scott Allan | February 17, 2008 at 10:39 AM
This sounds sorta' like a common occurrence at performances of a "Rock Star", which is about what Obama seems, at best, to be. It's pathetic that selecting someone to be the leader of this nation has come to this low point.
Posted by: Don | February 17, 2008 at 02:33 PM