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Not to retread roachboy's tires or anything, loquitor, but I invite you to consider that the messianic view of Obama you're decrying is as much your creation as the decrying of it.
Nobody has said he's the second coming. That picture is whatever version of reductio ad absurdum involves exaggerating others' statements beyond the ridiculous. Augmento ad absurdum? I don't know. My point is, the reaction against "Obamania" is a reaction against a myth. You may as well be reacting against unicorns and leprechauns. That's what roachboy meant by "straw man".
Of course he's a politician. In my view he's the politician with the best chance of transforming America--his language is transformative, and all transformation is created first in language. But "Obamania" is a myth. He has loyal supporters, as do Clinton, McCain, Huckabee, and Paul.
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