Americans, of all people, should recognize how bizarre and dangerous it is to fawn over professional politicians.Little Green Fascists conveniently ignoring other portions of said column, merely noting that it applies to "all politicians":
But any conservative who thinks cultishness is exclusively a leftist phenomenon ought to take a good long look in the mirror. Because many of those who decry the "cult of Obama" are the same people who made a flight-suited action figure hero out of such common clay as George W. Bush.
Peggy Noonan called Bush's post-9/11 address to Congress "a God-touched moment and a God-touched speech." Fred Barnes wrote that "the stage was set for Bush to be God's agent of wrath." National Review Online ran ads for the Bush "Top Gun" action figure, and an article about how wonderful it was to have a presidential superhero to complement your GI Joe collection.
On Hardball, after the "Mission Accomplished" speech, G. Gordon Liddy got graphic enough to embarrass Judith Warner: "Here comes George Bush. You know, he's in his flight suit, he's striding across the deck, and he's wearing his parachute harness.... and it makes the best of his manly characteristic…. He has just won every woman's vote in the United States of America!"
They must have missed that part. Either that, or they only read the headlines of the things they link. Whole columns are, like, really long! Who has time to read them.
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