Buying Brand Obama

[rhonda15]

Barack Obama is a brand. And the Obama brand is designed to make us feel good about our government while corporate overlords loot the Treasury, our elected officials continue to have their palms greased by armies of corporate lobbyists, our corporate media diverts us with gossip and trivia and our imperial wars expand in the Middle East. Brand Obama is about being happy consumers. We are entertained. We feel hopeful. We like our president. We believe he is like us. But like all branded products spun out from the manipulative world of corporate advertising, we are being duped into doing and supporting a lot of things that are not in our interest.

Truthdig - Reports - Buying Brand Obama

Obama is just a brand - spot on analysis

[sauntersplash]

Barack Obama is a brand. And the Obama brand is designed to make us feel good about our government while corporate overlords loot the Treasury, our elected officials continue to have their palms greased by armies of corporate lobbyists, our corporate media diverts us with gossip and trivia and our imperial wars expand in the Middle East. Brand Obama is about being happy consumers. We are entertained. We feel hopeful. We like our president. We believe he is like us. But like all branded products spun out from the manipulative world of corporate advertising, we are being duped into doing and supporting a lot of things that are not in our interest.

Truthdig - Reports - Buying Brand Obama

Obama is just a brand - spot on analysis

What's all this we business?

Everything on television/in print/in politics is a brand. Everything on television/in print/ in politics is about us being happy consumers. I don't think it has much to do with the electorate supporting anything, that's largely irrelevant nowadays, outside of the actual election nonsense.

Only a politically illiterate fool would have 'believed' in Barack Obama at any stage. The scariest thing is that there are people out there in the crazy crazy world who don't realise that 'The West Wing' with Martin Sheen is about as close to the real world as 'Battlestar Galactica'. I pity them, and envy their lack of imagination.

Barack has done a lot for the t-shirt industry though, but then again, I'm pretty sure Bush did more.

[rhonda15]

What's all this we business?

I was quoting the article

[rhonda15]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eQN_3rn9CY&eurl=]YouTube - Obama Administration: Bushism without Bush[/ame]

[Libero]

With enemies like these...