"Now look closely at the above photo released by the Obama White House today, take a good look of the faces of his worshippers that throng him. Here we are in 2014, after suffering through 5+ years of the Obama Imperial Presidency, and still the millions come to worship at his feet, tears streaming from their faces just to touch him."

Don't know if "terrify" is the correct description but it certainly is disquieting. Obama laps this stuff up and sees it as evidence of how the masses really feel about him, polls notwithstanding. Truly sick.

Truly stomach-churning.

Oft times when I see such pictures of Obama I am reminded of how another egomaniac wanted the public to view, even worship, him. Gros' famous painting Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in Jaffa.



"In this painting, which measures more than 17 feet high and 23 feet wide, Gros depicted a legendary episode from Napoleon's campaigns in Egypt (1798-1801). On March 21, 1799, in a make-shift hospital in Jaffa, Napoleon visited his troops who were stricken with the Bubonic Plague. Gros depicts Napoleon attempting to calm the growing panic about contagion by fearlessly touching the sores of one of the plague victims. Like earlier neoclassical paintings such as David's Death of Marat, Gros combines Christian iconography, in this case Christ healing the sick, with a contemporary subject. He also draws on the art of classical antiquity, by depicting Napoleon in the same position as the ancient Greek sculpture, the Apollo Belvedere. In this way, he imbues Napoleon with divine qualities while simultaneously showing him as a military hero."

Like Obama, Napoleon was a complete fraud.

"Napoleon was a master at using art to manipulate his public image. In reality he had ordered the death of the prisoners who he could not afford to house or feed, and poisoned his troops who were dying from the plague as he retreated from Jaffa."

http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/gros...n-in-jaffa.html [emphasis added]

During the bad old days of overt Communism we used called this sort of manufactured public worship "The Cult of Personality".

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In the initial stages of nearly every recorded tyranny, the saucer eyed dumbstruck masses exhibit astonishing and masterful skill when denying reality. The facts behind their dire circumstances and of their antagonistic government become a source of cynical psychological gameplay rather than a source of legitimate concern. Their desperate need to maintain their normalcy bias creates a memory and observation vacuum in which all that runs counter to their false assumptions and preconceptions disappears forever. It is as if they truly cannot see the color of the sky, or the boot on their face. The concrete world of truth becomes a dream, an illusion that can be heeded or completely ignored depending on one’s mood. For them, life is a constant struggle of dissociation, where the tangible is NOT welcome…

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In the initial stages of nearly every recorded tyranny, the saucer eyed dumbstruck masses exhibit astonishing and masterful skill when denying reality. The facts behind their dire circumstances and of their antagonistic government become a source of cynical psychological gameplay rather than a source of legitimate concern. Their desperate need to maintain their normalcy bias creates a memory and observation vacuum in which all that runs counter to their false assumptions and preconceptions disappears forever. It is as if they truly cannot see the color of the sky, or the boot on their face. The concrete world of truth becomes a dream, an illusion that can be heeded or completely ignored depending on one’s mood. For them, life is a constant struggle of dissociation, where the tangible is NOT welcome…

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Yes, that is what we are seeing.

Terrify? I makes me break out laughing. Zero is reduced to cobbling together a handful of human debris for validation. Good luck with that....