Obama is to Liberalism What the Marlboro Man Was to Cigarettes

They both made a dangerous product look attractive.

One of the most successful marketing campaigns ever was the Marlboro man, the handsome cowboy who rode the range smoking Marlboros and living life as men were supposed to live it.  He made smoking very attractive to millions of people.

I met one of the Marlboro men actors one time.  He was a customer as one of my bank's branches.  He was dying of lung cancer at the time.

Marlboro was able to brand their very dangerous product by using a handsome spokesman.  Liberalism did the same thing with Barack Obama, and now the successful branding is no longer able to hide the dangers of the bad product:

If Barack Obama had been a commercial product instead of a political candidate, then he and his brand creators — Axelrod et al — would be facing one of the most massive class action suits ever to hit any American business.

Branded as the superhero of smarts, Barack Obama would be to American government what Einstein was to science.

Branded as an epochal Lightworker, Barack Obama would be a president whose very life formed a dividing line of history. All things would henceforth be measured in before-Barack and after-Barack metaphors.

Branded as a peacemaker of unprecedented prowess, Barack Obama would usher in the era of worldwide kumbaya, while catching the elusive butterfly of civilization’s perfection in his outstretched hand — all without so much as breaking a fingernail.

Sold to the American public as “sort of God,” marketed as a political savior of such extraordinary intelligence and giftedness that there had simply never been anyone like him, Barack Obama so misrepresented himself that hundreds of pundits are still trying to make sense of what went wrong.

When reality met branding-myth, the whole thing fell apart.

Truth happened, you nitwits.

So, imagine that corporate laws against fraudulent branding applied to political advertising.

Well, if they did, then Barack Obama would prove the quintessential false branding case. There wouldn’t be a law school in the country without a case study of the Barack Obama swindle.

I imagine the lawsuit would be akin to a tobacco liability suit on steroids.

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This whole thing reminds me of a post I wrote just five days after the inauguration on January 25, 2009:

Obama Shocked to Discover He Has No Actual Magical Powers