The power of the political portrait goes back to 326 BC, to Alexander the Great of Greece. Since then, to let the multicultural masses know who has the central power, the political portrait has been stamped on coins by kings, rulers, presidents, and dictators. The powers of the enhanced portrait to persuade are the vital tools of politicians and Hollywood, those big ego’s in the industry of image management.

During this election year, we will be bombarded with daily portraits of politicians to persuade us that they have courage, passions, strengths, character, soul, and to put trust and hope in them. We need to ready ourselves for the deceptions. Then comes the conventions and the masses will be flooded with portraits, icons, and images. Then comes the punch line.

Obama the Great has decided to give his acceptance speech, the closing of the 2008 Democrat convention, in a football stadium. The powerful image will be that used by Hitler in his march to power, to stand upright, outspoken, and strong in front of 70,000 encouraging, cheering and swooning multicultural faces. The media camera will focus on the faces, back and forth, between Obama’s and certain individuals of the masses, the Black, the Asian, the Hispanic, the Woman, the young, the old, the handicapped, the Hollywood celebrity icons in the stadium. To the multicultural observer, all will be emotionally persuaded to unite with the crowd, to scramble to the bandwagon. And, it will work, for it worked for Alexander the Great back in 326BC, when he ruled over a multicultural empire, and invented this political unifying tactic.

Talk cooks no rice.  Words come and go.  But powerful images become embedded forever!  In this election go-around Madison Avenue will prevail over Wall Street, personality over substance. History will repeat itself.   The blind masses will get what they deserve.