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I Guess They Can Get the Bust Done in Eight Years
The Sundries Shack — ... Jan. 13. The goals are to secure a national holiday in Obama’s honor, to organize celebrations around his inauguration and to celebrate the 200th birthday of President Abraham Lincoln, who was born on Feb. 12 1809. This Obama-worship has gone past ridiculous and is careening dangerously toward the mentally-disturbed. I fear that on the day the fantasy land of “Yes we can” meets reality, there’s going to be a national case of buyers’ remorse the likes of which we’ve never seen. (via Mark Hemingway and ...

The Ironist-in-Chief
Ross Douthat — ... just make him a more interesting politician than your average baby-kisser: It has the potential to be crucial to his success as President. Mass democracy has a way of creating cults of personality around its most charismatic national politicians - we've seen this with the Kennedy brothers, with Reagan, and even with Sarah Palin - and it's very easy to imagine an Obama Presidency that ends up being captive to the unprecedented hero-worship he generates, and the image that his fans have of him as a transformational President even before he's taken over the Oval Office. I think ...