You are being manipulated...

...and you probably don't even know it. Of course that's the whole purpose of advertising, to manipulate you into buying the advertised product or service. But what about politics? Are you being manipulated there as well?

According to a recent broadcast on NPR's Science Friday, you are and have been for a long time. I think the difference this political cycle is that the candidates and their campaigns are getting a better understanding of the science and using it to their advantage.

According to "The Science of Getting a 'Yes'" there is a proven relationship between the method of displaying an apparent large group of like minded people, and an individual's decision, conscious or otherwise, to go along with the group.

Obama is using this concept tonight to, for the first time ever, filling Denver's Invesco field with some 70,000 people, hoping those in attendance will use their cell phones to bring others there as well, at least in a virtual reality sense. If you are part of the group, well...if all these people believe it must be true. Right?

Of course, if you are armed with information, you can inoculate yourself from the manipulation, well, at least to the degree you want to be immune. So take 20 minutes or so and take a listen to the podcast by clicking on the player below.




If that doesn't getcha thinkin' maybe this will. Is Obama the Messiah? Of course you've heard it mentioned on talk radio for weeks, even months. But there are true 'believers'. Check out the following:

Is Barack Obama the Messiah?
The Obama Messiah Watch
Barack Obama's Messiah Complex
Obama, The Anointed ONE
AP Photo Evokes Obama as Christ at His Baptism

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has declared him "a leader that God has blessed us with at this time." Of course conservatives need to be careful about this. Many declared the same thing about George W. Bush.

But Bush didn't march around acting as though he was the answer to the worlds problems and that it was "our time." Obama acts as though he believes he is "the ONE" and the scripting of his campaign carries out that message both overtly and subliminally.

Of course thinking people know that anyone who thinks he has all the answers to the worlds, or even America's, problems doesn't. But then, it appears that those who support Obama have either checked their brains at the door, or have agenda that is supplemental (race) to or tangentially related (consolidating power) to an Obama presidency.

"We are all in the same boat on a stormy sea and
we owe each other a terrible loyalty." - G. K. Chesterson