ObamaChrist, Part II

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8605.html

He walks into a room and you want to follow him somewhere, anywhere,” George Clooney told talk show host Charlie Rose.

“I’ll do whatever he says to do,” actress Halle Berry said to the Philadelphia Daily News. “I’ll collect paper cups off the ground to make his pathway clear.”

His candidacy and popularity are clearly about Obama the man, his identity, his personality. You don’t worship someone simply because you agree with him. You worship a God, a King, a Savior. You worship a personality, not an ideology.

I don’t know. It freaks me out a little. This can go a couple of ways:

1. Obama makes a mistake, says something that makes people realize how weird this is, or that causes the shine to start to wear off, and everything fades back to reality. He can still end up winning the presidency as the most liberal person to ever hold the office, but he’s still just a president.

2. The cult continues on the current trajectory, and voicing opposition to the guy becomes a form of blasphemy. It’s already started. It’ll only get worse. Will conservative politicians have the balls to stand up against that kind of vitriol? Doubt it.