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Stripped of his mystique as a different kind of office seeker, he could become just another liberal politician – only one who parses, evades, dissembles and condescends. That narrative is beginning to take hold. If those impressions harden into firm judgments, Mr. Obama will have a very difficult time in November. (WSJ)

Thank you thank you THANK YOU, because this cannot possibly be said enough.  Obama is a politician.  Enough with the magazine covers proclaiming him to be exactly what American needs, enough with the stupid photos with angelic beams of light highlighting him, enough with the crazed fans treating him like the Elvis of our day.  He's a politician, and he's trying to get elected.  That means he's going to do ethically dubious things, and has done them in the past.  He's not perfect, he's not a messiah, he's not anything but someone who's running for public office who has managed to create a ridiculous, obscene cult of personality.  Yes, he's black.  No, that really doesn't make him any different.