Matching Suit and Tie

I've heard of mirroring, but this seems awfully blatant:

I was just reading this article describing how Mr. Obama engaged in a mass Eriksonian hypnosis, presumably using neuro-linguistic programming techniques, and I'm poop-poohing the whole idea. Please, let's not subscribe to wacky conspiracy theories like the lefties!!  But then I see this photo at Drudge Report taken from a Bloomberg News article about Mr. Obama's visit to the White House today.  Yikes, not just the matching suit and tie (Bush's trademark color) and pin, but even their hands at their sides and the slope of the shoulders and body look identical.  Weird! 

I'm trying to keep an open mind on the man won the presidential election, but it's difficult. The cult of personality leaves me ice cold.  Something is wrong here. I have never felt the Obama-mania that many of my work associates feel, I've never understood the irrational adoration for the man who has no record of achievement.

If this is mass hypnosis - and plenty of others feel this way - why are some of us immune?

Comments

[Obama-rama]

it's not hypnosis, Miss Kelly, it's mass relief to have a thoughtful pragmatist in the White house after so many years of knew jerk policy.

Granted, he's got a steep hill to climb, but people are savoring this moment where America seems to have corrected itself, both present injustices and past.

his supporters do live in the reality based community, and we'll be his harshest critics too.

[dahozho]

Well, if it is hypnosis, there are just some of us who are too bloody-minded to be so suggestible.

I was taught to question and think. I don't just blindly get on bandwagons.

And I agree. This cult of personality is just plain *scary.* I hope people come to their senses before we go too far.