Kool aid meme - Obama Started It!

[zabet]

The Obama Juice
By Ted McClelland
June 4, 2004

BARACK OBAMA'S POLITICAL director calls it "drinking the juice." Once campaign volunteers "start drinking the Obama juice," Dan Shoman told the New Yorker, "you can't find enough for them to do."

Political writers are drinking the Obama juice, too, and they've gotten so drunk on the Senate candidate they're shouting over each other to offer the most obsequious toast. No Chicago pol has heard this kind of flattery since an alderman compared Richard J. Daley to Jesus Christ.

http://www.chicagoreader.com/obama/040604/

:rofl:

[MadBadger]

1. Id check O'Lielly Archives cuz he loves to use that phrase.

[zabet]

4. I do not poison my mind with O'Lielly...

I 'learned' that word here on DU. :P

[NC_Nurse]

2. That meme's been around forever....

I remember it from when I joined DU.

[ellisonz]

15. It is an old meme.

And came back in 2004 with the Dean campaign.

[bbinacan]

3. I hate the word MEME!

:mad:

[zabet]

5. Do you hate 'Obamanation'?

Chicago residents were using it in 2004
also.....

"...someone shouted. "No more Obamanation!"

"To V.O.T.E.'s 31-year-old spokesman, Mark Carter, Obama is a tool of Mayor Daley and the rest of the City Hall fat cats who've ignored Lawndale. "Barack Obama is so much entrenched in the status quo in the city of Chicago that he does not support the issues of the black community, especially our generation," said Carter, who did time in the 90s. "Joblessness, homelessness, police brutality. We don't have to vote the same way our grandmothers did. When you look at the numbers supporting the Democrats, it's the civil rights generation. The younger generation, the hip-hop generation, we're more open."

http://www.chicagoreader.com/obama/041029/

[Exultant Democracy]

11. Once every 4 years there is a meme surge, don't worry after the primary it will

start to taper off and after the general election you won't see it for a few years.

[intaglio]

28. It comes out as

Me - Me and just continues Me Me Me Me Me ...

[NMMNG]

6. Oh my

That actually sounds pretty gross as well as scary.

[BlackVelvet04]

7. Obama juice sounds nasty.....

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[zabet]

8. I wonder if all the Obama supporters

have been 'juiced'.

::beer: :o

:rofl:

[BlackVelvet04]

9. They've certainly been

something....I'm not sure what happened to them. I guess it's not possible they all have been dropped on their heads.

[Danger Mouse]

16. All Obama supporters drink of the blood of Obama when we are inducted into the Cult.

We mix it with a dash of goat's blood for extra panache, before feasting on roasted kittens, in accordance with the Word of the Dark Lord Obama.

[zabet]

21. OMG

:rofl:

[Danger Mouse]

24. Every night, we say the 'Prayers to Obama'...

to this picture...

[zabet]

25. OMO!!

Oh My Obama!!

:rofl:

[Danger Mouse]

26. Yesss....you are learning. Soon you will no longer be citizen_jane.

You will be Pepperoni.
Pepperoni of BORG.

[AtomicKitten]

10. Drink your juice, Shelby.

[Bok_Tukalo]

12. Are people supposed to grudgingly support their candidates?

Why is enthusiasm being spun as a negative?

[goldcanyonaz]

13. Husband just did his nightly check for Pods growing in the backyard.

Coast is clear.

:rofl:

[Sulawesi]

14. If you did a simple web search, you would find the Kool Aid expression has been used for years. wtf.

[Blue_In_AK]

17. Ick Juice???

Ick.

[nonconformist]

18. "Drinking the kool-aid" began in reference to the Jonestown massacre

Where cult leader Jim Jones had brainwashed his followers to the point where they voluntarily drank poisoned Kool-Aid to commit suicide.

[zabet]

Wrong.

The Jonestown cult drank Flavor Ade.

[nonconformist]

23. But that's where the term comes from. nt

[Maddy McCall]

27. Grape Flavor Ade.

[rucky]

29. Then you might want to change your OP title.

Seeing as there was no kool-aid involved there, either.

[Maddy McCall]

19. Sounds like a communion thing.

The religiosity of this campaign is scary.

Is this the same political director who told the Obama team not to talk policy with potential voters, because that's "boring," but to give a "testimony" instead--of how Obama has affected their lives?

Gross. This kind of stuff really turns me off.

[zabet]

22. Body of Christ....

Juice of Obama...
YOU ARE SAVED!!!

:evilgrin:

[WillyT]

20. Ok... And Thanks...

:evilgrin: