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The obligatory “people keep fainting at Obama rallies” post

posted at 6:25 pm on February 15, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Just a tad too Truther-y for my taste. Like the man says, “I give a good speech.” Is it some shock that morons who think he’s the messiah might get panicky at being so close to the Word?

Taranto notes that it’s arguably more worrisome if this is all on the level, but be honest: If women were swooning for Fred (like, er, some of our commenters), we’d shrug it off as proof of his immanent awesomeness, no?

Still worth checking out, though. Our moral superior commanded his legions to tape everything at Republican events in hopes of catching something YouTube-ably quoteworthy, untoward, or unusual. This certainly qualifies. Transparencymania!


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It’s kind of scary if it’s true. Do we really want to have a bunch of overly emotional fainters voting in the fall? I don’t want them choosing wallpaper, let alone a President.

MagicalPat on February 15, 2008 at 6:28 PM

I fainted when I read this.

There are Muslims who are members at B. Hussein Obama’s “church.”

Huh.

Akzed on February 15, 2008 at 6:29 PM

Taranto notes that it’s arguably more worrisome if this is all on the level, but be honest: If women were swooning for Fred (like, er, some of our commenters), we’d shrug it off as proof of his immanent awesomeness, no?

No. I’d still find it disturbing. ;)

Midas on February 15, 2008 at 6:31 PM

(like, er, some of our commenters)

Snickers…

Allah, do you wish it was you?

upinak on February 15, 2008 at 6:35 PM

fainters voting in the fall?

MagicalPat on February 15, 2008 at 6:28 PM

Heh.

davidk on February 15, 2008 at 6:37 PM

I love this response to Kos’s call to stalk republicans.

A sad day in america. We’re getting to the point where everything will be recorded. They have a security system that recognizes faces on scan. Everything will be on video, everything. This is George Bush’s America

ninjapirate on February 15, 2008 at 6:39 PM

Sounds like the orgasm selector switch got flipped to full auto by mistake. Rapid fall in cerebral blood pressure. Put some ice on it.

a capella on February 15, 2008 at 6:40 PM

“We are the hope of the future,” says Obama. We can “remake this world as it should be.” Believe in me and I shall redeem not just you but your country — nay, we can become “a hymn that will heal this nation, repair this world, and make this time different than all the rest.”

tomas on February 15, 2008 at 6:48 PM

Speaking of trutherish, is this author and/or article credible?

http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272618845.shtml

I’m having trouble finding any other mention of this(possible?) Obamanation.

funky chicken on February 15, 2008 at 6:49 PM

OH OH OH Ohbamaaaaaaaaaaaaaa……..

I got some water for you my flower…

tomas on February 15, 2008 at 6:49 PM

Obama’s greatest weakness is his unreconstructed socialism. Unfortunately, that won’t be a campaign issue until 2010.

spmat on February 15, 2008 at 6:50 PM

Seriously, were they fainting or falling asleep?

hopechangehopechangehopechangehopechangehopechangehopechangehopechangehopechangehopechangehopechangehopechangehopechangehopechangehopechangehopechangehopechangehopechangehopechangehopechangehopechange

ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz ….

fogw on February 15, 2008 at 6:53 PM

His appeal: He doesn’t sound or look like the, “angry black man,” (ABM) which has personified the black leaders in America since the death of MLKjr. Think about it — this isn’t racist, just a fact.

Unfortunately, this is just packaging as his message is the same as every ABM since MLKjr. Rather then espouse personal growth, accomplishment, and responsibility he blames evil corporations, Republicans, and the rich.

Obama is the ABM in a Non-ABM package.
DKK

LifeTrek on February 15, 2008 at 6:55 PM

Speaking of trutherish, is this author and/or article credible?

funky chicken on February 15, 2008 at 6:49 PM

Yep, Rush did a segment on it. It’s S.2433, seen here.

amerpundit on February 15, 2008 at 6:56 PM

Hugh Hewitt is talking about a ‘remarkable’ speech made by Michelle Obama. I still don’t know what she said, but Hewitt’s callers are going nuts over it. Anyone know what she said?
One of the callers asked Hewitt “I wonder what color uniforms she wants us to wear.” That got my attention.

infidel65 on February 15, 2008 at 6:57 PM

http://obama.senate.gov/press/080213-obama_hagel_can_1/

Oh dear.

funky chicken on February 15, 2008 at 6:58 PM

infidel65 Yes, the hope that Michelle Obama will save us from her husband’s socialist/fascistic leanings doesn’t seem to be founded on reality.

funky chicken on February 15, 2008 at 7:01 PM

Ugh, Obama’s”Global Poverty Act” had Hagel and Lugar as cosponsors. I know Hagel’s leaving the Senate this year, right? Isn’t Lugar due for retirement also?

Those would be two very important Senate elections.

funky chicken on February 15, 2008 at 7:02 PM

Everything about this post is creepy from the fainting females to Big Brother Moulitsas.

The evolution of the female voter:

Soccer moms>Security Moms>Smelling Salts Moms.

Buy Danish on February 15, 2008 at 7:03 PM

For the love of Christ… (no not Obama, the real Christ), you know this worship nonsense if going to implode. Dude. His record, his plans (not that anyone seems too interested in learning about them), and his inability to think on his feet (his speeches are ALL pre-written, teleprompted, and strictly followed) are going to bubble up in the next few months. Hell, if this is how the Dims want to pick a candidate, can’t they give us Denzel or Affleck? At least those guys have done something in their lives… uh… besides drugs.

Sugar Land on February 15, 2008 at 7:03 PM

be honest: If women were swooning for Fred (like, er, some of our commenters), we’d shrug it off as proof of his immanent awesomeness, no?

Eh, no. I’d worry the message was getting lost in the sea of spontaneous lubrication from incapacitated halfwits. I’d also worry that the MSM would pick up on the ridiculousness of it all a hell of a lot quicker than they have with their ideological soulmate Obama.

And to wit, I have never fainted, spoken in tongues, or had wet dreams about Fred.

Mark V. on February 15, 2008 at 7:04 PM

And to wit, I have never fainted, spoken in tongues, or had wet dreams about Fred.

Mark V. on February 15, 2008 at 7:04 PM

Thanks for sharing!

One of the callers asked Hewitt “I wonder what color uniforms she wants us to wear.” That got my attention.

infidel65 on February 15, 2008 at 6:57 PM

Brown?

Buy Danish on February 15, 2008 at 7:06 PM

If this bubble bursts after November, God help us all.

Chuck Schick on February 15, 2008 at 7:07 PM

This reminded me of the late wrestler, Rick Rude. His schtick was after winning a match some “random girl” from the audience would hop into the wring and he would give her the ol liplock move – she’d always faint dead away…

Bradky on February 15, 2008 at 7:09 PM

yikes! ring not wring

Bradky on February 15, 2008 at 7:10 PM

Our moral superior commanded his legions to tape everything at Republican events in hopes of catching something YouTube-ably quoteworthy, untoward, or unusual. This certainly qualifies. Transparencymania!

Taping every single Republican appearance with the hopes of a “gotcha” moment is okay, but listening in on potential terrorist cell phone conversations is litigation-worthy. Nice sense of priorities, that.

Captain Scarlet on February 15, 2008 at 7:10 PM

Hugh Hewitt is talking about a ‘remarkable’ speech made by Michelle Obama. I still don’t know what she said, but Hewitt’s callers are going nuts over it. Anyone know what she said? One of the callers asked Hewitt “I wonder what color uniforms she wants us to wear.” That got my attention.

infidel65 on February 15, 2008 at 6:57 PM

Heard it. You must go back and listen to the archive via TownHall.com (Talkradio Online > Hewitt > 02/15 Hr 1 once it’s posted). It is frightening what this cult of Obama has become. She sounds like she’s believing the hype. It has definite messianic tones. This must be discussed more.

Captain Scarlet on February 15, 2008 at 7:13 PM

infidel65, AP, etc.

Soon as anyone has any word on that speech, please link. I’m highly curious. If anyone’s going to provide a clue to what Obama will try to accomplish in office, it’ll be her.

spmat on February 15, 2008 at 7:16 PM

spmat….off to the ovens for those of too much “middle classness?” Or for those with the “mindset” that led to the Iraq invasion?

funky chicken on February 15, 2008 at 7:18 PM

It could be these women are fainting because they are waiting in long lines to get into these events and not having water or food for hours?

terryannonline on February 15, 2008 at 7:21 PM

Some people said that Obama wouldn’t defund the troops very much.

Here’s Glenn Beck:

GLENN: Okay, this is a great sounding bill, it really is. The Global Poverty Act just passed. It was number 4 on the list of things to do today, on Valentine’s Day. My heart to you. It is sponsored by Barack Obama. Now, yesterday so you know, Barack Obama said, and I quote, it’s time to stop spending billions of dollars a week trying to put Iraq back together and start spending the money on putting America back together. Got it? He wants to put America back together. That’s why he proposed $210 billion yesterday to create jobs, $210 billion to create jobs. That, by the way, is a 2, a 1 followed by 10 zeroes. He wants $150 billion to create 5 million green collar jobs to do things for the environment. $150 billion, green collar jobs. Environmentally friendly energy sources will be found. It will be fantastic. He wants $60 billion to go to a national infrastructure reinvestment bank to rebuild highways, bridges, airports and other projects. He says he can create the — the Government will generate 2 million jobs. It sounds like work projects. My gosh, how great. It sounds just like the new deal. These two million jobs, many of them will be in construction, which has been hit by the housing crisis. So don’t worry. We’ll fix it as the Government.

So he’s proposing $210 billion yesterday and saying it’s time to stop spending billions of dollars trying to put Iraq back together and start spending the money on putting America together. At the same time he proposed the Global Poverty Act. It just today passed the Senate. This is great.

Senator Biden trying to rush the Global Poverty Act through his committee, got it done. It now, if it passes — it already has passed the House mainly because people didn’t read it. If it passes now in the Senate, it will commit the United States to spending .7% of our gross national product on foreign aid, which will amount to a phenomenal $845 billion over what we already spend on foreign aid. But here’s the great thing. It doesn’t commit it to — we’re not committing to ourselves. We’re committing to the United Nations. The United Nations will take the .7% of our GDP and — wait a minute. That kind of sounds like — a poverty act. That almost sounds like a global tax. A release from Obama’s Senate office says the U.S. joined more than 180 countries with the United Nations Millennium Summit and vowed to reduce global poverty by 2015. But we’re halfway there and it’s time the United States makes this a priority, to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective in promoting the reduction of global poverty.

Something tells me there just won’t be much left over for the defense department.

funky chicken on February 15, 2008 at 7:23 PM

The cheers of the crowd rose to a shrill, hysterical scream. Women fainted in the crush and their rigid bodies were passed out from hand to hand over the heads of the crowd…

…”Here is the law that closes a period of our history and opens a new one with enormous future possibilities”

From a Time Magazine article.

Deety on February 15, 2008 at 7:23 PM

funky chicken on February 15, 2008 at 7:18 PM

Hyperbole? Or are you seriously characterizing her speech?

spmat on February 15, 2008 at 7:28 PM

spmat, sorry– hyperbole based on the Trinity UCC mission statement (resist middle classness) and Obama’s statement that he wanted to eliminate the mindset that got us into Iraq.

funky chicken on February 15, 2008 at 7:29 PM

Ok. I’ve been harboring a certain dread that Obama is actually a Marxist/Leninist. I know that he’s a socialist, but God help us if he’s worse than that. I can handle a Jimmah clone taking the White House; we have the ground forces to mobilize a Congressional response in 2010 (or earlier if our folks would stop wasting time on an old man’s vanity campaign). We don’t have the infrastructure to handle a true Bolshevik. There’s no telling what he’ll do once in office if he’s that far to the left.

spmat on February 15, 2008 at 7:39 PM

Here is the clip of Hugh Hewitt and Michelle Obama’s clip.

terryannonline on February 15, 2008 at 7:39 PM

oops thanx for making me look like a moron terryann lol

funky chicken on February 15, 2008 at 7:45 PM

I will be fainting once Obama’s Global Tax is up and running, ceding control over parts of federal spending to the United Nations. Just what the economy needed at the moment.

All those cretins thinking of voting for Hussein, we will know who to blame when 900 billion dollars poorer.

Pax americana on February 15, 2008 at 7:47 PM

“We have to fix our souls.” Just. Wow.

“The only person in this race that can heal the nation.”

“Government had forgotten them long ago.”

“What are we ready for? Wait wait wait.. we say we’re ready for change. But see, change is hard. Change will always be hard. But it doesn’t happen from the top down. We get change because folks from the grass roots get sick and tire of other folks telling them how their lives will be, and they decide to roll up their sleeves and work… Barack will require you to work… Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual.”

Workers of the world unite.

Second look at supporting McCain.

spmat on February 15, 2008 at 7:54 PM

Barack will require you to work… Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual.”

Socialism is barack.

Pax americana on February 15, 2008 at 8:09 PM

Can someone please tell me exactly when Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton started supporting Barak Obama? I remember when they were on different pages from eachother. I remember when Jessie and Al were taking shots at him. But I didn’t hear of the meeting that brought them around to him. Does anyone have this news for me?

Skidd on February 15, 2008 at 8:15 PM

Can someone please tell me exactly when Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton started supporting Barak Obama?

Probably when they realized that Obama might get elected and that they might be out in the cold if they didn’t fall in line and genuflect early enough.

baldilocks on February 15, 2008 at 8:29 PM

Barack will require you to work… Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual.

Will he ride a horse through the fields and carry a whip, too? (How about ride in a bulletproof limo and carry the power of the IRS?)

aero on February 15, 2008 at 8:31 PM

funky chicken on February 15, 2008 at 7:43 PM

I think some more on Barack and the Obamamaniacs would be very healthy around here. I’m not talking to the head cases whose seething hatred is so extreme that they’d rather see almost anything than a McCain victory, or who’ve convinced themselves (against historical evidence) that a post-2008 calamity is sure, or even just more likely than not, to revive Republican chances.

I think a little more consciousness of the downside risks might make righties, or really any patriots, currently on the fence a little more hesitant about spreading defeatism and disunity – because this is seriously weird stuff. Obama is either an empty suit driven insane by hubris and success or a far left pied piper. Either way, we cannot afford to give the most powerful office in the world to him. Forcing McCain to secure the border and convincing him that Shamnesty would destroy his presidency would be child’s play compared to dealing with an Obama presidency.

I’d love to see Hillary come back, somehow – and not because I think she’s a weaker candidate. I actually think the odds are that Obama would be easier to beat – that his phenomenon is more subject to rapid deflation, and that who and what he is (and isn’t) would be easier to expose. But I don’t want to take the chance. If he beats Hillary, then it’s in the lap of the gods, and anything could still happen.

I’m hoping that the bursting of the Obama bubble has already begun. I see signs of it, but because I want to see signs of it, I don’t trust my judgment.

CK MacLeod on February 15, 2008 at 8:47 PM

Pax americana on February 15, 2008 at 8:09 PM

Interesting.

History shows they are wrong. To win the next election and to win in the long term, we need to redefine the political center.

No, screw that. Scary as hell.

Time to start inoculating the American electorate. This is quickly becoming more than a presidential election. This really is about the political soul of America, the last bastion of liberty in the world. An America that flirts with and commits to a socialist agenda is an America that has accepted its own self-imposed terminal illness.

We need to start buying adds that do nothing more than teach basic economics and the purpose of free markets and the free exchange of ideas. I still don’t think McCain can win, and any campaign on his part that focuses on McCain alone will both fail and take conservatism down with it, but a campaign that is focused on the realities of socialist/Marxist policy will buy us time to mobilize a working legislative resistance.

spmat on February 15, 2008 at 8:53 PM

They went gaga for Hitler at Nazi rallies too.

Just sayin’

infidel4life on February 15, 2008 at 9:25 PM

Probably when they realized that Obama might get elected and that they might be out in the cold if they didn’t fall in line and genuflect early enough.

baldilocks on February 15, 2008 at 8:29 PM

Yea. But when was that? He and Hillary have been frontrunners since the beginning, but only in the last two weeks has it looked like he’s going to pull it out.

I just find his whole “aura” amazing. He was a nobody in 2003 and was about to get trounced in the Illinois Senate race when Sen. Ryan’s licentious lifestyle was exposed enough to force him to withdraw from the race.

Then Obama’s 2004 convention speech sent everyone a-twitter. “Oooh…he’s grrreat!” They said.

Now, he’s surging past Hillary without ever going negative on her (or Bill). As much as people say that they hate negative campaigning, it works.

This newbie who has never accomplished anything is not only capturing the hearts of a too easily swayed public, but the entrenched powerbrokers of Washington.

It’s weird and unsettling.

Michelle Obama’s speech only adds to the weirdness. She sounds exactly like a Lenin or Hitler. “Rise up, rise up people, and take your destiny into your own hands!! (But listen to me and do exactly as I say).

I don’t like this guy. I’d take a Hillary before him. You know what you’re getting with Hillary. Don’t have a clue what to expect with Obama. My feeling is that it’d be baaad stuff.

Skidd on February 15, 2008 at 9:29 PM

I went to a McCain rally and got all woozy.

CliffHanger on February 15, 2008 at 9:47 PM

Too bad there’s no sultry woman candidate saying all the right things to make us guys feel funny in the pants.

CliffHanger on February 15, 2008 at 9:50 PM

The Oprah-ization of America is nearly complete.

jgapinoy on February 15, 2008 at 10:03 PM

I went to a McCain rally and got all woozy.

CliffHanger on February 15, 2008 at 9:47 PM

Not to worry, that was only the metamucil vapor in the air. Just don’t go again.

infidel4life on February 15, 2008 at 10:30 PM

Yes, it is a subconscious reaction that these people are having. They love his speeches of audacity, hope, and change, but the other stuff doesn’t register. The body is reacting to dark cloud of socialism that is now forming above this country, it’s a reflex, it’s literally going to suck the life out of you, and make you a slave to the state. Many people are already working at least a quarter of their labor to taxes, that’s 25% Slavery, it’s tribute. Others have to give them a cut of their investment profit and everything else. They are sucking the life out of us literally, and Obama has plenty of plans and a whole load of people who think it sounds really swell without even understanding what he plans on doing, so forget about any considerations of unintended consequences, but I am commenting at Hotair so take it for what it’s worth.

LevStrauss on February 15, 2008 at 11:57 PM

Ummm, Fred just puts you to sleep, Obama makes you faint..

I’d rather just be put to sleep(I have problems sleeping anyhow), you could be injured, if fainting like that standing up.. then then have other hyped-up crazy fans trampling on you while all passed out..

Just saying, someone needs to look out for them.

>:}

Chakra Hammer on February 16, 2008 at 12:33 AM

Is there anything going on at Republican rallies that Markos shouldn’t know about?

snaggletoothie on February 16, 2008 at 12:37 AM

It doesn’t matter if people keep fainting at Obama rallies.
I wasn’t going to vote for the Beatles for Pres. either.

Speakup on February 16, 2008 at 12:39 AM

$845 billion (on top of our already-hefty foreign aid payouts) to end global poverty. Is there anything in the Senate bill that says where all this money is going to come from? Our economy is going into recession (and with the trouble in the credit markets, it may be worse than any recession any of us have seen in our lifetimes), and Obama proposes another trillion $$ or so of new government spending to finance his new government programs (e.g., universal healthcare, massive new infrastructure improvements, etc.).

Does anyone in any of these campaigns have any understanding of basic economics? They all seem to believe that money will just magically appear — in enormous quantities — to fund whatever liberal feel-good or buy-the-vote project they can dream up. This is really getting scary.

AZCoyote on February 16, 2008 at 2:38 AM

Should we be looking through the quatrains of Nostradamus for any references to Barack Obama yet??? Cus this has all seemed sort of ‘end of the world’-ish to me lately.

Linlou on February 16, 2008 at 12:09 PM

Obama has some serious weaknesses and thus some real problems.
Hillary was the inevitable candidate. We heard it for years. Well, her biggest weakness was, well, she really wasn’t. It was all a mirage. And when she tarted losing she proved her biggest advantage, that she was inevitable, was a lie for all to see.

Now Obama. Obama is becoming the next inevitable. Not in quite the same way, but it is still just as much a mirage
He is being pumped up by the media as this messiah because of his so called great speeches. Makes people cry and the girls swoon. Well, his speeches really aren’t that great. And at some point, they will have to stop.This is where is biggest weakness is.
That is, in actually doing something.
Obama can make the girls cry talking about hope and change. Specifics and details are his biggest enemies. Actual policies that people can see, taste and touch like screwing with their pensions, opening our borders, raising their taxes, spreading abortion, pushing the homosexual agenda will only make the libs swoon.

JellyToast on February 16, 2008 at 9:33 PM

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