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Bill Clinton may be the only person who's more enthusiastic about Obama
than in 2008, but that doesn't mean the creepy cult around Obama has
disappeared. The Weekly Standard notes that Mike Synan of Orlando's
WOFL-TV reported yesterday on Twitter: "Crowd for #FLOTUS [Michelle
Obama] event in Daytona now chanting 'Hail Obama.' "

Mrs. Obama's husband was in North Las Vegas, Nev., yesterday, and Yahoo!
News reports that "about an hour before [Mr.] Obama spoke, the band
played the gospel worship song 'All Around,' replacing the parts where
the singer usually says 'Lord' with 'Obama.' "

Blogger Jeryl Bier picks up a passage from Obama's Green Bay speech:

See, the folks at the very top in this country don't need
another champion in Washington. They'll always have a seat
at the table. They'll always have access and influence.

The people who need a champion are the Americans whose letters
I read late at night; the men and women I meet on the campaign
trail every day. The laid off furniture worker who is retraining
at age 55 for a career in biotechnology--she needs a champion.


Obama went on in this vein for several more paragraphs, referring to
himself nine times in all as "a champion." Quips Bier: "No time for
losers, cause he is the champion." Well, in fairness, he was modest
enough to use the indefinite article.

Still, there's no question that even the most zealous Obama cultists
have soured over the past four years, though not necessarily on Obama.
Remember Mark Morford, the crazy San Francisco columnist who wrote in
2008 that Illinois's then-junior senator was "a Lightworker, that rare
kind of attuned being . . . who can actually help usher in a new way of
being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this
bizarre earthly experiment"?

That seems not to have worked out, so in a column last week Morford took
refuge in oikophobia and antimale resentment:

Older white males remain the most terrified, lopsided, confused
demographic in all of America, perhaps even more acutely--and
more embarrassingly--in this election than any other in modern
history.

Let us not be naīve. Gender gaps are always present in major
elections. Still, I admit to being slightly surprised at the
size of this one. Perhaps it's due to my strident bias toward
enlightened male attitudes, particularly living here in San
Francisco, with its enormous and generally fearless armadas of
awakened males who, by and large, aren't at all threatened by
smart women, feminists, sex, abortion rights, single moms,
shifting relationship dynamics, or the clarion call to redefine
their own roles in society at large. Hell, this is San
Francisco. This is what we do.

In fact, most of the guys I know are actually wildly empowered
by these forces, invigorated, challenged and hopeful in all
the right ways. In other words, most of the guys I know already
live in this new and progressive reality, a gender intermixed
paradigm in which they thrive just fine. Maybe I gotta get out
more.

Nah, stay where you are.

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"Re-electing Obama is like backing The Titanic up and hitting the
iceberg a second time."