# Obamamania – Does Obama knowingly hypnotize his followers? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 23, 2008, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamamania-does-obama-knowingly-hypnotize-his-followers/469179 "2008-10-23T05:15:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Aquila\_Be](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a698b9/32.png) [@Aquila\_Be](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquila_Be)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamamania-does-obama-knowingly-hypnotize-his-followers/469179/101 "2008-10-24T01:35:01Z")
> [@raindrop](#): > > **Aquila Be** , it was obvious to me even in your OP that what you were asking could be asked of any speechmaker. Specifically putting Obama’s name in the thread title (when the hypnosis theory could be applied to _ANY_ speechmaker) clearly reveals your leanings and biases. Does it really? The whole damn document focuses on Obama and his supposed hypnotic powers. To leave his name out of the thread title would be misleading. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamamania-does-obama-knowingly-hypnotize-his-followers/469179/102 "2008-10-24T01:56:52Z")
God you’re insufferable. When I said they were assumptions, I was saying you were making an assumption that your opinions themselves were assumptions that the rest of the world must find this guy as boring as you. You know what, you’re just going to keep volleying, and never offer anything of substance here. It’s not worth it for such a lame thread. Either form an opinion about the thesis you vomited in this forum or you leave me (us?) with no choice but to assume the most likey: you wholeheartedly endorse this bullshit. as for this: > [@Aquila Be](#): > > > [@cmyk](#): > > > > Also, concerning the whole “I’m not the author” thing, I’m beginning to think you doth protest too much. > > That’s a direct accusation that I’m the author. That’s what people start to think or say when someone keeps protesting they are not something they were never accused of being in the first place. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamamania-does-obama-knowingly-hypnotize-his-followers/469179/103 "2008-10-24T02:07:20Z")
I still haven’t gotten much feedback. Might powdered unicorn horn be the true explanation for Obama’s success? I’m not too enamored of the theory myself, but it’s hard to understand some of the more passionate reactions to his candidacy otherwise. I’d like to see what you people think, before I make up my mind. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamamania-does-obama-knowingly-hypnotize-his-followers/469179/104 "2008-10-24T02:29:41Z")
Well, I bought some powdered unicorn horn from an old woman down the street, and used it to whip up my very first [Pit Thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10353229#post10353229) Let’s hope its hypno-powers aren’t too much to bear for the Dope. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamamania-does-obama-knowingly-hypnotize-his-followers/469179/105 "2008-10-24T03:59:25Z")
Has onyone considered that Obama might be a “Magical Negro”? You know, like Baggar Vance or Morpheus or Morgan Freeman? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamamania-does-obama-knowingly-hypnotize-his-followers/469179/106 "2008-10-24T04:00:49Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Has onyone considered that Obama might be a “Magical Negro”? You know, like Baggar Vance or Morpheus or Morgan Freeman? Don’t forget John Coffey! ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamamania-does-obama-knowingly-hypnotize-his-followers/469179/107 "2008-10-24T04:56:06Z")
Good grief. I do not know that this was a troll, but there has been enough dodging around keeping the thread alive through non-statements that it has the same effect as a troll. Since the Original Post asks to discuss arrant nonsense and since the Original Poster does not appear to be interested in setting forth a thesis and defending it, I am closing this thread. [/Moderating] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamamania-does-obama-knowingly-hypnotize-his-followers/469179.md?page=5)