Below The Beltway

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CHRIS MATTHEWS: Yeah, well, you know what? I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work, and I think that –
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Is that your job? You just talked about being a journalist!
MATTHEWS: Yeah, it is my job. My job is to help this country.
SCARBOROUGH: Your job is [...]

Like most people, I find this video of children singing a badly written song about how great the world will be when The One is elected President to be, well, just plain creepy:

Over at Wizbang, D.J. Drummond makes an excellent point about the irrational exuberance that is Obama-mainia:
One of my favorite stories about our first President, George Washington, concerns the period immediately after the victory at Yorktown in 1783. At long last the hated Redcoats were packing up and leaving, and the Yanks could see about putting [...]

The irrational exuberance that is the Obamagasm has crossed the Atlantic:
PARIS: According to Samuel Solvit, president of France’s support committee for Barack Obama, the French have not been this excited about America since they shipped over the Statue of Liberty in 1885.
Obamania has gripped most of Europe. But the enthusiasm is particularly striking in France. [...]

It’s gonna be hard to top the outright insanity of this guy:
Barack Obama isn’t really one of us. Not in the normal way, anyway.
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Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us [...]

One of Andrew Sullivan’s readers is getting Chris Matthews-like chills up their leg after reading a book:
It seems to me that after reading “Dreams of My Father” and getting to know the man, you trust his ability to lead. I could be wrong, but after reading your blog over the last few months, you [...]

Andrew Sullivan, who has been in the tank for Barack Obama ever since he realized that Ron Paul was pretty much a non-entity, posts about this critique of his support for Obama:
Sullivan, a Burkean by philosophy but a radical by temperament, is the most interesting critic of his former conservative allies, and I’ve learned a [...]

Now, if only they could get the bird to faint a few times, it would look like a typical Obama rally.
H/T: Brendan Loy

Rick Moran puts some much needed perspective on the dreams of Obama’s supporters, and the nightmares of his detractors:
[A]n Obama presidency would not be the end of the world. Conservatives won’t like it. It is doubtful that a President Obama would be able to reach across the aisle very often or know what to do [...]

Andrew Sullivan reprints the following from a 20-something reader:
I’ll just put that out there. If Obama is done in by this whole Wright thing I am done with politics. I can’t invest myself in something that is so sure to disappoint me time and time and time again. If the Democratic party decides that it [...]