Do you think voting for Barack Obama is like losing your virginity?
Have you ever wished your president was as cool as your favorite movie star? Or even worse, thought that he was?
Are you looking for a commander-in-chief who will help you lead a government-subsidized
Life of Julia?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, Gene Healy has some helpful advice for you: Please get a life.
Perhaps instead of voting Tuesday, it would be more therapeutic to read Healy’s new ebook, “
False Idol: Barack Obama and The Continuing Cult of the Presidency.” It may just cure you of your belief that politicians can bring hope, which is as dangerous as any addiction to dope.
However un-American, worshiping the president is nothing new. I’ll
admit I’m a bit of a Reagan idolator myself. But no presidential
candidate in recent memory traded so much on his rock star status as
Obama.
He gave grown men thrills up their legs. People still get angry at
the suggestion that there is something fanciful about Obama’s “halt the
rise of the oceans” hubris. Look at the devastation wrought by Hurricane
Sandy, they say.
Fittingly, Obama’s latest bounce in the pre-election polls comes as a result of his Sandy cleanup tour.
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