Barak Hussein Obama: Our Lord and Savior:

I have read plenty of gushing, over the top, brown-nosing suck-up pieces about Barak Hussein Obama in the main stream media, but this one from Robert Kuttner of the Boston Globe takes the cake. Saint Obama is apparently noting short of Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, FDR, Vaclav Havel and Thomas Jefferson all rolled into one. Good freaking lord! Is there no shame?

I have followed politics far too long to fall in love, but Obama is like nothing we have seen since Bobby Kennedy and maybe since FDR. If you haven't read his first book, "Dreams from My Father," you owe it to yourself.

Obama wrote the book when he was 33, having spent nearly three years as an organizer on Chicago's South Side, and then three years at Harvard Law School, where he was elected president of the Law Review. No 33-year-old has the right to such uncommon wisdom and humanity. The comparisons that come to mind are the young Martin Luther King Jr., or Václav Havel, or maybe Thomas Jefferson.

If you think Obama is a pretty face with a gift for rhetoric and not an effective politician in the most noble sense of the word, read the chapters about his small victories organizing in the desolate neighborhoods of the South Side, one pastor and one kitchen table at a time.

Columnist Maureen Dowd described Hillary Rodham Clinton's money machine against the innocent Obama as Hillzilla vs. Obambi.

But Obama's mass appeal could well roll over Clinton's money. Obama is the only rock star in the campaign. We are likely to see a tidal wave of Americans under 40 who have never seen such a leader. Obama is young, and the Republican field is nothing so much as old. And this is a generation casually accustomed to revering the likes of Tiger Woods and Oprah Winfrey.

Obama lacks the foreign policy experience of, oh, Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld. But read of his first trip to his ancestral Kenya, and you'll feel quite comfortable that he has an unerring grasp of the complex world beyond these shores.

Yuck!!! I mean serious barf-orama.

Anyway, in the runner-up category for most intense MSM suck-up, goes to William Booth writing for MSNBC-Washington Post. The headline reads, and I kid you not: "Al Gore, international rock star. Oscar hopeful making case as America’s coolest ex-vice president." Are you kidding me? I could not make this stuff up if I tried.



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From our friends down-under: Well that's enough to drive a lib stark-raving mad.