Reply #23: Here is the comment I just posted on the New Statesman website [View All]

[Apollo11]

The New Statesman should be ashamed of publishing this article, which reads like an anti-Obama hit piece. According to Andrew Stephen, "waking up to some of the realities about Obama" involves seeing his campaign as some kind of religious cult. Presumably because it involves inviting people to feel included and then motivating them to do something (even if it is "just" voting and encouraging all your friends to vote too).

Is Andrew Stephen trying to suggest that Barack Obama's campaign is significantly more personality-driven and less issue-based than those of JFK in 1960, Ronald Reagan in 1980 or Bill Clinton in 1992? Or is it just time to have a go at Obama because he appears to be on something of a roll?