Me, opining about human nature a little over a month ago…

I do not understand how this fools people. It seems to be a public-relations ploy that goes back to Roman times, and doubtlessly extends back thousands of years before that…unchanged.

The political contender says,

I want people to be unified _{after they’re forced to agree with me}

And what he really means, is…

_{I want people to be unified} after they’re forced to agree with me

And after untold thousands of years of this bait-and-switch game, people still gulp it down like it’s yummy caramel-covered popcorn. Mmmm…look, he wants to unify people!

DRJ, offering a guest post at Patterico’s today:

Now that the primaries are over and Obama is the presumptive nominee, he wants the Michigan and Florida delegations to have full voting rights in the interests of “party unity” … a/k/a party unity for him.

From the story linked:

Obama sent a letter Sunday to the party’s credentials committee, asking members to reinstate the delegates’ voting rights when the committee meets at the start of the convention in Denver.

The delegates were originally stripped because the two states violated party rules by holding primaries before Feb. 5. The delegates from each state were given half-votes at a contentious party meeting in May, as part of a compromise designed to give two important states some role at the convention.

Obama’s former Democratic rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton, had won both primaries, though Obama’s name was not on the Michigan ballot and neither candidate campaigned in Florida.

“I believe party unity calls for the delegates from Florida and Michigan to be able to participate fully alongside the delegates from the other states and territories,” Obama said in the letter.

Unity! +++chuckle+++

Okay, it wasn’t that much of a prophecy because I was already talking about the Obamessiah. But it is an interesting commentary on how little the tactics change over time, and are likely to change from here on out.

And that — you know, that’s a little bit on the strange side if not on the unexpected one. The dude talks about “change” all the time. But he doesn’t do much of it, does he?

Cross-posted at House of Eratosthenes.