Well said, D!

Dymphna, she of the red veil and soulful wisdom I so enjoy, gets the quote of the day award - or maybe the whole election cycle. She sums up Barack Obama's appeal better than anyone I've heard to date:

I've never seen people act so weird about a candidate before in my life. His supporters seem to think he's Jesus, their absent dad and dream lover all wrapped into one.

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Spot on!

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The cult of personality associated with BO, the Che Guevara-like posters, the mindless hysteria he generates, his rise from being a provincial political agitator...honestly, sometimes I wonder if this is what Germany was like in 1937.

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(And no, despite my bizarre dream last week, I don't think he's about to invade neighboring countries, ethnically cleanse our country or anything like that - it's the phenomenon, not the philosophy - that they seem to share).