The Cult of Obama

It's almost unexplainable; or at least it appears to be. Barack Obama changes his positions (or straddles the fence) from day-to-day, week-to-week, or month-to-month (as does John McCain for that matter). Obama has a gift for provocative scripted oration, but clearly develops a severe lack of clarity whenever he's forced to think and speak for himself. The media loves him, and anyone that has any knowledge of psychology can recognize an institutionalized effort to promote him. The media trumpets factoids like "he has raised more money than any presidential candidate in history" or "he has raised twice as much money as McCain" without any details given. Obama himself trumpets the notion that he receives his campaign funds in small amounts from people that care about his campaign, but that's only partially true: Half or more of Obama's windfall is coming from large donations, and from the usual suspects. On top of all this are rumors that Obama is not a natural-born American, and that he's unable to produce a valid birth certificate. I've seen the purported evidence, and it's shocking; especially when you consider that Obama's rumor-busting web page displays the same document this evidence refers to. Add to the list of questionable items Obama's cadre of crooked, self-interested, and well-connected cronies, too.

So what's going on? What's the deal? Whatever happened to investigative journalism? Why aren't these issues being examined? Why is Obama's campaign so well-funded? Why was there an organized effort to have Republicans switch parties to vote for Obama in the primaries? Why was Hillary Clinton, a candidate clearly being groomed by the powers that be, elbowed out of the way in favor of Obama?

I have some theories:

1. Obama is a plant. McCain has hinted that he intends to win the election in the last 48 hours of the campaign. Perhaps this means they're going to break the news that Obama has been disqualified at the 11th hour; perhaps with a side of racial unrest for good measure. If the riots are bad enough they may even get an opportunity to activate some of the more nefarious provisions of the PATRIOT Act.

2. Obama is a plant. They intend to let him win by putting him up against a candidate the Republicans clearly don't like, and bring up the birth certificate thing after the election is over to either: (a) Make his Vice President win by default OR (b) Try to turn public opinion against the Constitution by saying "Look at that. You voted for him. He's your President. Now the only reason that's being questioned is because of some 'silly' rule in that 'silly old document' that we don't want to have to deal with anymore."

3. Obama genuinely wants to win, but will be at the mercy of the special interests and his handlers via blackmail for the entirety of his term; contrary to what he's been saying.

Some of this depends on the candidates' selections for Vice President, and what happens at the upcoming conventions. We'll have to wait and see.

Update: It appears some of the purported evidence may not have been as strong as it seemed at first glance, but that doesn't mean this issue is resolved. There are still lingering questions surrounding the legitimacy of Barack Obama's citizenship status, and he will need to provide irrefutable proof that he meets the natural-born citizen constitutional requirement if he would like for these questions to go away.