Walking on Water with the latest Messiah

Lots of people on the Left are stirring. They see Obama mania as a cult, and a dangerous one at that. I was involved with EST (The Forum) and went to a couple of seminars led by Werner Erhard and it is hard not to see the similarities between Obama and Erhard's movement, one that attracted a near fanatic female following. Both terrific speakers, both knew how to sway a crowd and get them going, but in the end Werner Erhard simply lost the air in his balloon. However it is the Obama followers (called Obamabots ) who are beginning to scare lots of people. They are indeed enthusiastic but all you have to do is look at the frenzied faces of some of the delirious women at his rallies to see the danger. We are listening to a guy with nothing but code words that mean anything we want them to mean. Change, the future, the past, and things like that grow old. We hope.

The Sacramento Bee (hardly a beacon of Conservatism) recently ran a small piece by someone who went to the "school" where the Obamabots were told what to say and how to say it. "Stay away from issues, they were told. Tell personal stories about how you came to Obama." Came to? Need I say more? They are told to keep stories compact, down to 30 seconds so a phone call can be effective. If anybody asks a policy question of the Obamabots they will be directed to a website; no questions will be answered. Communicating feelings is what is paramount, not boring shit like Health Care specifics.

In California, the campaign claims that 120,000 people have shown an interest in working for Obama. Seven thousand of those are actively involved, putting in five hours to 80 hours a week.

The campaign boasts 223 official organizing teams in all of the state's 53 congressional districts, and 700 community groups. Sacramento's was one of the first and is also one of the most active.

Statewide, 3,527 people trained as precinct captains oversee phone banking and canvassing door to door in precincts that generally include about 300 registered Democrats.

This is a religious movement and like all religious movements their tide is powerful. I don't see the Republicans matching this new machine. We'll see. Hillary has already been blown away (not that she didn't deserve it). Unless? Unless there is a sudden mass awareness of the nature of this movement. I confess that I was one of the people initially caught up in this excitement. But then I decided to think. And think. And think. Usually when I do too much of that I stress out and do up a doobie, get laid, and then head for Mexico til my brain recovers from the strain. Not this time. I've decided to stick around and share my observations. A lot of people from mostly the center are really upset by the tone and lack of content of Obama's campaign.

Taylor Marsh, possibly a feminist piece of shit who is pissed off that baby Hillary is in the toilet, absolutely a total Lefty of the nutroot variety, and a talk show host with listeners in at least two small cities and a car radio, has one of the best posts on the current Jesus out there complete with links, and she will make you think. She has a slimy background of bomb throwing, bias, but even a psychopath has a truthful delusion once a month. Problem on her site is that "guest" bloggers with no contact with the human race post there sometimes when they're off their meds and then the site stinks. There is also an Obama Watch set up at Slate for all the latest.

At any rate lots of people on both sides are stunned by the fanaticism of his "base," the obscene emails they send out to people who differ with them (that shit doesn't bother me, I actually get an erection every time I get a few death threats from white girls), but most of all plenty of the observers are concerned about the emptiness of his rhetoric. And what he might do if he takes over. Late Add: Daily Kos weighs in too; the natives actually are waking up.