The opening sentances of the OPENING POST of this discussion:

"Well, so many things got me thinking of it this weekend. The Obama cult & the political idol worship of people like him, the Kennedys, and other politician charismatics.

My sister's obsession with American Idol and Dancing With the Stars..."

This diatribe did NOT start off as a general discussion of celebrity-obession which then "naturally" turned to the subject of Obama's recent huge-crowd event; from the very beginning, quite specifically, it has been a criticism of the adulation of politicians, and of one politician in particular: Barack Obama and parenthetically, "people like him," to wit, the Kennedys.

Who do you hate more: the object of all this affection, or the masses of people who offer it up?