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Originally Posted by roni
The cult of personality question is easy to answer.
The campaign's main and most important narrative, I think, is this:
Follow me and I will lead you out of Egypt, through the desert to the land of post-partisan bliss (the land of milk and honey).
Some (Joel Klein, for example- "There was something just a wee bit creepy about the mass messianism — 'We are the ones we've been waiting for' — of the Super Tuesday speech and the recent turn of the Obama campaign.") have written about it as a movement with messianic tendencies - and I did for awhile, but now I think the Moses story is a better analogy.
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And how would you say Clinton's message differs given the sour milk we have drunk the past 8 years? Do you really think that Obama has done anything to portray the challenges ahead as anything less than extremely difficult? If so, how so? Or rather, is what you perceive merely a media hype of the core idea of focusing more on consensus building vs. constant fighting that accomplishes nothing?