Obama another JFK?
January 22nd, 2007 by Brendan SteinhauserRich Miller says Obama-mania reminds him of the hype surrounding JFK.
This Obama phenomenon is not rational in any form. It is, in fact, almost completely irrational.
As the skeptics continually point out, average Obama supporters know very little about the man they adore. But I’ve noticed that the more exposure he gets, the more people swoon over him. In some ways he’s been able to accomplish on a fairly wide scale what JFK did with my Grandma at that union gathering in Chicago. Millions are personally smitten, and, at least for now, there’s no reasoning with them on this topic.
I can’t tell you if Obama will win the presidency or even the nomination. Who knows what those oddball Iowans and those idiosyncratic New Hampshireites will do? His liberal voting record — both in Springfield and Washington, D.C. — won’t be much of a problem in the primary, but perhaps the Republicans can use it to break the spell in the fall if Obama makes it that far.
