Obama: Nothing Succeeds Like Success
In my other life, I sell real estate and daily face the truth that nothing helps business like a third-party testimonial.
Watching America translates news about the U.S from all of the world’s “third-parties” – every country that has a stake in America’s choice for president in ‘08. And today we see, in an article from the Hamburger Abdendblatt of Germany, Obama’s being discussed with plenty of JFK and MLK references, in a manner every bit as favorable as anything his own campaign could write.
If the “Obama Aura” is opening eyes this wide on the other side of the ocean, could we be approaching the creation of a kind of “inspirational critical mass”, rare indeed, in which the phenomenon itself, the aura, and thence the zeitgeist, becomes so strong that people will support it mostly for the psychological “feel good” of participation and not wanting to feel “left out”?
Perhaps the question is premature (and it certainly not meant cynically), but with the Germans writing third-party testimonials that recall American’s great modern political pioneers, it looks like the whole world may be gearing up to campaign for him? Now, that’s leverage.
Read the Germans on the Obama Phenomenon here at Watching America
