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The great danger posed by the Obama candidacy lies in its lack of any serious content. Better a candidate whomakes mistakes, than one who feeds and fools his dupes with his empty rhetoric, as Obama has done. Bad ideas can be corrected; braying inanities promote no such remedies.

So, Obama’s babble about change has much of the quality of the legendary account of Elmer Gantry, the quality of the celebrated revival meetings at which “more souls were made than saved.” A serious search has found not one single programmatic commitment by candidate Obama which has actually positive relevance to the real world today’s ongoing greatest, global financial crisis in all modern history. His sophistry has the hollow resonance of his uttered rhetoric; it is an echo of the style of the mythical demagogue, who promised the true believers the guarantee of infinite “strawberries and cream” forever. Populist candidates of that empty-headed style of campaigning,burn out duped citizens as voters, and thus leave a thus embittered section of the electorate ripe for the use of the next swindler to come along.

The battered Obama voter must be presented with the concrete options around which to rally, in the absence of a candidate in whom they had “believed.”

http://www.larouchepac.com/files/pdfs/20080430-lpac_USA_Election_2008.pdf