Is the Obama following similar to the Michael Jackson hysteria in the 1980s?
JUSTICE asked:
I remember how Michael Jackson was so popular. All celebrities wanted to be a part of him, including Brooke Shields and Elizabeth Taylor. Men, women, children were fainting just to touch his white glove. Everyone got caught up in the moonwalk. Won all these Grammies etc etc. Selling out to millions of crowds. And he was the acceptable black man because he didnt do rap or acted like a thug. Also looked white(because of the surgeries).
Is Obama the Michael Jackson of our times?
I remember how Michael Jackson was so popular. All celebrities wanted to be a part of him, including Brooke Shields and Elizabeth Taylor. Men, women, children were fainting just to touch his white glove. Everyone got caught up in the moonwalk. Won all these Grammies etc etc. Selling out to millions of crowds. And he was the acceptable black man because he didnt do rap or acted like a thug. Also looked white(because of the surgeries).
Is Obama the Michael Jackson of our times?
Tags: 1980s, Black Man, Brooke Shields, Celebrities, Crowds, Elizabeth Taylor, Hysteria, Men Women, Michael Jackson, Moonwalk, Obama, Rap, Surgeries, Thug
By stev, July 3, 2009 @ 7:34 pm
Now that’s an insult. lmao.
People forget he is 46 years old. Other
than being a senator for a few years,
what has the guy been doing all of his
life? He is and has been a well-paid
CIVIL RIGHTS lawyer. Why in the heck
do people think that makes him qualified
to be the president of the most powerful
country in the free world?
Ignorance.
By Food Warrior, July 4, 2009 @ 7:09 pm
Now that is just plain silly.
By information_police, July 4, 2009 @ 8:07 pm
No, because Obama does’t wear a single white glove. And he can’t dance.
By Pam H, July 6, 2009 @ 4:29 pm
No, he is not.
And having an ex-civil rights lawyer for president wouldn’t be all bad. We need someone that is aware of the importance of our civil rights.
By Katie Wojo, July 7, 2009 @ 11:32 pm
Ah he he! *grabs crotch*
No, but that was fun
By passinthru, July 8, 2009 @ 4:03 pm
No. Obama is a Senator, running for President (and doing well). Michael Jackson was a singer.
Being confused about this looks a little racist.
By Kirk D, July 9, 2009 @ 4:18 am
That sounds pretty racist. I think he is more like a guy who is the answer to a bogus war that has killed 100s of thousands of people and a government that has ruined our economy and stripped away our civil rights.
How come you didn’t say that the Obama excitement was like the one when Madonna was big in the 80′s?
By HELLary, July 10, 2009 @ 10:37 pm
Much much better than that!!!
i start off i would like to note some of Senator Obama’s accomplishments.
*Obama has been in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004 ( 7 years)
*He’s been in the U.S. Senate since November 2004 (3 1/2 years)
* Was A community organizer in Chicago
* President of the Harvard Law Review
* A civil rights lawyer
*He was a lecturer of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School
co-sponsored bipartisan legislation for controlling conventional weapons and for promoting greater public accountability in the use of federal funds
sponsored legislation on lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for returned U.S. military personnel.
*death penalty reforms
* health care in IL
Now that i got some of that out of the way, I’ve been asked this question by some of you
“What’s the political views that i like”
Good Judgment
He opposed the war from the start, this earns him big brownie points by me. This war has cost us Billions of dollars, thousands of lives, and now more people around the world hate us. He is the only one running who spoke out against the war (even when it was the unpopular thing to do & could hurt his career). That shows honesty & good Judgment.
By Lori K, July 12, 2009 @ 6:27 am
Well, I think the way you phrased your question is insulting, BUT you do have a point. That is that Obama voters seem to be “jumping on the boat” simply because the idea of the “first black president” is exciting. Mr. Obama IS articulate and well spoken, which impresses the easily impressed…BUT it’s hard to pinpoint any real accomplishments in the political arena. As a senator, his record as a Senator isn’t very impressive. He heads no committees and is a member in 3, I believe. He shows up to vote on issues a little more than 1/2 the time and just doesn’t seem interested in serving as a representative to the people who elected him. I’m not impressed, but a lot of people are overlooking that. I don’t understand why?
By rxing, July 15, 2009 @ 6:11 am
no way. he’s not a rock star. Michael was way cooler back in the day before he started becoming weird.
By me i, July 18, 2009 @ 4:57 am
i think obama graduated from Havard law school, MJ didn’t pass along that path, i hope you are also heading that way, else just wisen up, and contribute something consturctive.
By themurph2000, July 21, 2009 @ 2:02 pm
Now that’s an insult. lmao.
People forget he is 46 years old. Other
than being a senator for a few years,
what has the guy been doing all of his
life? He is and has been a well-paid
CIVIL RIGHTS lawyer. Why in the heck
do people think that makes him qualified
to be the president of the most powerful
country in the free world?
By that standard, McCain should be President by a landslide. Hilary only got elected to her second term as a senator in 2006, and from a state that she didn’t grow up in (Illinois) or gain political experience (Arkansas). That only puts her 6 years up on Obama. By contrast, McCain’s been a senator for 20 years and was a Rep for 4 years before that. Hell, we just spent 8 years with someone who was a Texas governor, with no D.C. experience.
I think that might be the point Obama’s running on: he’s the outsider with the ideas. Of course, Bush campaigned on that, too.
And Michael had a disease that did that to him: LaToya has the same issue.