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Originally Posted by South
...wide-eyed and lathering at the mouth for someone they know nothing at all about... Baseless, paper thin fanaticism without reason...
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Hmm, that describes the fundamentalist right who voted for Dubya too. It's a bad sign whatever side you find it on. He couldn't have made it without baseless paper-thin fanaticism.
Anyway, to address the point:
I think it's just the mood, the sign of the times. People do want change, people really are sick of the same old Washington crowd. And you've got this rather charismatic, brilliant orator who embodies a dream (A black man as President? Hell yeah, it'll prove the American dream is real, etc. Which it does, of course) and people just latch on. We had exactly the same thing with Tony Blair. I mean, exactly the same thing except 'call me Tony' was a white guy, obviously. The ideas of change, optimism and exuberance are great, but the reality is there's a nation to run and certain political realities to deal with.
So in the UK we learned all about this kind of thing - idealism and the promise of a new dawn gave way to cynicism. I hope it doesn't go that way should Obama get elected...