Redacted: I goofed when reading the story this am, read too much in to it through a link at a hard left site. But, not going to disappear it down the memory hole. We all make mistakes.

It begs the question, what type of cult is it though? A benign one, or more like North Korea or Jim Jones’? NY Times - Obama Supporters Take His Middle Name as Their Own

Emily Nordling has never met a Muslim, at least not to her knowledge. But this spring, Ms. Nordling, a 19-year-old student from Fort Thomas, Ky., gave herself a new middle name on Facebook.com, mimicking her boyfriend and shocking her father.

“Emily Hussein Nordling,” her entry now reads.

With her decision, she joined a growing band of supporters of Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who are expressing solidarity with him by informally adopting his middle name.

What is a cult? Steven Ala Hassan came up with his own BITE Model (I usually do not like to rely on Wikipedia, due to the reliable information in many articles, but, this one is pretty good, based on real information. You can also find the deep dive information at Hassan’s webpage)

1. Behavior Control
2. Information Control
3. Thought Control
4. Emotional Control

Well, Obamacons obviously have little emotional control of their own, but, that is not the point of #4, of course. Think of the emotional control Obama has over his crowd at rallies. People faint. They sing out “you tell it, preacher!” They yell out “Amen.” They weep, they cry, they look at Barack Hussein Obama as a Messiah.

I’m sure everyone who is paying attention can come up with their own rememberences of he first three, as well. For behavior control, he now has people taking his middle name as their own. He gets millions of rubes to act as if they are at a tent revival at his speeches. He gets them to write even more petitions, and to unburden their true thoughts at his MyBarack(hussein)Obama.com webpage.

Information Control. What better example is there then the Fight The Smears website? Oh, wait, I got one: the way that all the Obamacons mimick the theme that anything that Obama does not want to discuss is a “distraction from the real issues.”

Thought Control: the model defines this as

Need to internalize the group’s doctrine as “Truth”

a. Map = Reality
b. Black and White thinking
c. Good vs. evil
d. Us vs. them (inside vs. outside)

‘Nuff said on that subject.

Of course, the way liberals/progressives have been moving for decades, forming a true Cult of BHO is not that much of a stretch. Just one little step over the line.

BTW, that graphic above, which many of you might have seen, has been called “cultish” before, along with many of the creepy graphics that both the Obama campaign and his supporters have come up with.

Sweetness and Light looks at the Daily Kosbat reference in the Times story.

The Moderate Voice loves the symbolic effort of changing ones name. Interestingly, Ann Althouse wonders if trying to show how little meaning the name “Hussein” has, that the Obamacons are actually highlighting it as a dirty word.

Last thought: this is more like the social model, where “the cult is formed through a social implosion, in which cult members dramatically reduce the intensity of their emotional bonds with non-cult members, and dramatically increase the intensity of those bonds with fellow cult members – this emotionally intense situation naturally encourages the formation of a shared belief system and rituals.”

What are your favorite Obamacon cult references?

Crossed at Right WIng News and Pirate’s Cove

If you hang with terrorists, how can you be president?

If your wife has never been proud of the country you are running to be the chief executive, how can you be president?

If you have virtually no experience in government, and not enough related work experience to get hired on as a manager of a McDonald’s, how can you be president?

If you have trouble debating without a teleprompter, how can you be president?

If you find yourself getting caught saying patronizing and ugly things about the people you want to lead, how can you be president?

If your entire platform revolves around, change, hope, and “hey, I’m Black!”, how can you be president?

Or, we can go with Jane “Black Face” Hamsher’s If You Can’t Use a Computer, How Can You Be President?

I’m at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York and during the last session, Tracy Russo (formerly of the Edwards campaign, with me in the photo) got into it with Mark Soohoo of the McCain campaign. Tracy wondered how someone who doesn’t use a computer can be president of the United States.

Mark said that someone doesn’t have to know how to use a computer in order to understand them. Tracy said most emphatically that you do, and that someone who is going to be expected to lead the country through the social, political, economic and communication upheavals that are happening as a result of the changes in computer and online technology very much needs to be able to use one.

If you cannot control the racist, anti-semitic, bigoted, and unhinged content of the websites that have your name on them, how can you be president?

If you forgot to hire competent webmasters to run the websites with your name on them, how can you be president?

Tuesday update: Don Surber - Question: Are lefty bloggers so full of themselves again that they think the Internet rules the universe?

They are having meltdowns in Nutroot Land over Obama’s support of the new FISA bill

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) today announced his support for a sweeping intelligence surveillance law that has been heavily denounced by the liberal activists who have fueled the financial engines of his presidential campaign.

In his most substantive break with the Democratic Party’s base since becoming the presumptive nominee, Obama declared he will support the bill when it comes to a Senate vote, likely next week, despite misgivings about legal provisions for telecommunications corporations that cooperated with the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program of suspected terrorists.

Anyone want to bet that, despite his pledged support, he doesn’t actually vote yea on the bill, instead, he will either vote present or not vote at all? That way, he can always change his mind, talk out of both sides of his mouth, and not have to actually take an official stand.

“Given the legitimate threats we face, providing effective intelligence collection tools with appropriate safeguards is too important to delay. So I support the compromise, but do so with a firm pledge that as president, I will carefully monitor the program,” Obama said in a statement hours after the House approved the legislation 293-129.

Yes, because he did a marvelous job in monitoriting Jeremiah Wright, his associations with Bill Ayers, what his wife was saying on the stump, and the filth on his official website’s community pages.

• Greg Sargent is bummed out.
• Digby is annoyed, because “Nothing is more associated with us than this issue.”
• MyDD is not that surprised that Obama is punting the issue, and, regarding change, “We’ve done our part, now you do yours.” IMPORTANT WRIST SLITTING ALERT to follow.
• Atrios names Obama Wanker Of The Day.
• Liberal Values is “disappointed” but has “hopiness” that Obama might do the right thing, despite the view that Obama is acting like a typical politician.

Sock Puppet, who wrote some books, ya know! writes “Nobody should be fooled by Obama’s vow to work to remove telecom amnesty from this bill.” Don’t worry, Glenn, we won’t be.

He’s also pissed off at Pelosi, Hoyer, Emanual, and every Democrat who pushed the bill and voted for it. Watch out, he might start emailed Sybil-like!

This is interesting, though. There is a project by ACTBLUEPRO-TERRORIST to put some ugly ads into newspapers and such about the bill, and

Placing this as a full-page ad in The Washington Post (at an extremely discounted rate) is also the ideal way to announce the beginning of this campaign to all of them…. (emphasis mine)

So, how does this group get an “extremely discounted rate?” Would a pro-FISA bill group, say, one of the telecom PAC’s, get an extremely discounted rate if they wanted to put a pro-FISA bill ad in the Wash Post?

Sister Toldjah breaks down who the Missiah actually is, based on the reactions of the puppy upper needing Missiah disciples.

So, I wonder how the Missiah is doing at being a hands on administrator, as I mentioned yesterday at McCain Blogs (Via Memeorandum)

NY Observer - Clinton Bundler on Obama’s Doyle Pick: The Biggest ‘Fuck You’ Ever

A former bundler to Hillary Clinton just called in to tell me that Barack Obama’s selection of Patti Solis Doyle as chief of staff to the campaign’s eventual vice presidential nominee is the “biggest fuck you I have ever seen in politics.”

The bundler said that Clinton loyalists were livid over the pick.

“You don’t hire Patti Solis Doyle for her operational expertise,” said the bundler. “You don’t do that. This is someone who failed dramatically at her job. You only bring her on to fuck someone else.”

But, hey, Obama is a new type of politician. Why am I reminded of the line from Battlestar Galactica “All this has happened before and will happen again”? Eh, it’s just part of his Changiness and Hopiness.

Meanwhile, out in children’s book land

Telegraph: Barack Obama aide: Why Winnie the Pooh should shape US foreign policy

Richard Danzig, who served as Navy Secretary under President Clinton and is tipped to become National Security Adviser in an Obama White House, told a major foreign policy conference in Washington that the future of US strategy in the war on terrorism should follow a lesson from the pages of Winnie the Pooh, which can be shortened to: if it is causing you too much pain, try something else.

Mr Danzig told the Centre for New American Security: “Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.”

Seriously, you just have to read the rest of the article. Apparently, Mr Danzig, and experienced government employee, has been infused the power of the Obamissiah Cult, which is making Scientology look sane and benign.

Carl at Israel Matzav has a good question.

Commentary fears that the Winnie The Pooh thing is not a spoof.

Townhall says “talk about childlike thinking.”

Right WIng News: Looking at these idiots is almost enough to make you want to build a bomb shelter in the back yard and stockpile food and gold..

The Sundries Shack says “We should not let this guy get within 50 miles of our national security policy.” Jimmie also catches teh funny! at Ace, where the funniest comments are: No Blood For Hunny!

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Today’s liberal freakout: Salon: Fox News calls Michelle Obama “Obama’s baby mama”

An alert reader wrote in just a little while ago to let us know about something he’d spotted on Fox News Wednesday afternoon. During a segment discussing conservative attacks against Michelle Obama, the wife of presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama, the network described the former as “Obama’s baby mama.”

They’ve even got screenshots and video. Oooooh!

In full, it says “OUTRAGED LIBERALS: STOP PICKING ON OBAMA’S BABY MAMA!” It was featured in the bottom news scroller.

Well, if Obama and his little America hating mama want to be all hip and fist bump……

Not to self: stop reading the quote, hard to finish post when ROTFLOL.

Oliver Willis (who finally has a better header graphic), is in complete freakout mode: Hey Fox News, Just Call Her A N***** And Be Done With It, Okay?

According to some white guy at Shakesville, this is racist. Tomorrow, I assume Fox will put up a graphic, “Obama downs a 40 of malt liquor, and shoots cop in drive-by.” Yawn.

It’s an irony alert at Pandagon, who feature an Obama monkey doll, probably made by liberals. Check the header: there is an Obama logo, and next to it a caption that says “It’s a jungle out there.” I find that highly offensive and racists! BTW, the post of the Pandagon post is “Watch Out For That Tree.”

Doesn’t that seem racist? Or, am I reading too much in to it?

An