Useful Fools

For all the media hype and bias, Obama is not doing as well in the mid-summer polls as most Democrat presidential contenders. That has mystified many… but here may be some explanations.

Obama is openly showing remarkable arrogance or narcissism. His act of touring Europe like a rock star, and speaking to a huge crowd of worshipful Germans, doesn’t sit well with those of us who “cling to their guns and religion…” He is acting like the transnational progressive that he is, and only our elites like tranzis.

There is a palpable sense that we are supposed to view him as a messiah, and some of the symbolism used by his campaign supports that. The similarity of his campaign to tyrannical cults of personality sends chills down my back. The media coverage resembles that of a state-run propaganda machine.

North Korea, Stalin, Saddam and most dramatically the Nazis did this same stuff. It’s scary, Orwellian, and hits a sour note for many Americans.

At the same time, McCain has been cruising along acting like a normal human being, and a good humored one at that. To the press and the political class, that looks like laziness or lack of drive or organization. To a lot of people, it looks like the sort of fellow they might actually trust and respect.