For every person who says Obama can "fix the world" is a nut job who says Bush is doing God's work.  Each is equally freaky.

Can't anyone here concede that maybe, just maybe, his popularity is a sign that the American public (the real American public, not just the microcosm of Townhall posters) is ready for someone to get excited about,  to have their morale boosted a little.  The average American knows he doesn't carry magic in his pocket, but the idea of another 4 years of a republican presidency is just too much to bear, and like it or not Obama is the complete antithesis of that.  That is why the word "Change" is brought up so much and guess what, it works, people want change.

If posters here want to classify his status as "cultish", "freaky", and "Branch Davidian like", which is amuses me in a chicken little sort of way, that is fine, but instead of calling his supporters sheep, hypnotized or whatever.  Don't discount the last 8 years that have got us to this point.  By a leader who I heard described by someone once as a man who could "fix the world".  Your right, that does sound freaky.