"I think that what we're seeing with Obama vis a vis the cultism is VASTLY worse than it was with Clinton, or any Democratic president that I can think of, including JFK (although he was killed shortly before I was born, so I have no personal recollection of those times). Perhaps Jackson was the only other one, but not being an expert on him, I don't know. But in the modern era, on the left at least, this is without precedent in scope and nature, the closest analog being on the right in the form of the unthinking adulation showered upon Reagan, and Bush II, up until the summer of '05. And I suppose Goldwater, circa '60-'64."

I watched JFK's 1960 campaign and then his inauguration speech as an eight year old, and I was a ten year old, sixth grader when his presidency and life were ended. Even at such a young age, and with the passage of nearly 50 years now, since the events of some of those memories, I still feel strongly that the Obama "cult" wave does not hold a candle to the sentiment surrounding Kennedy's victory and brief presidency. The best but still feeble way I can attempt to convey this to you is by asking you to view the photo at this link, and the one linked to my sig...I wish there was some other way, but I guess you "had to be there", to understand what I am saying:

http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2007/jfk_campaign/jfk_campaign_01.jpg

I get your point that "unprecedented cult level" popularity will be ascribed, or criticized by those of each generation who behold it enveloping a US presidential candidate or any media attention driven personality.

Supported by the image of JFK and his daughter linked in my sig, I'm making the point that JFK featured the appearance of a man ahead of his time, and his hairstyle and sun glasses say it. He had the sense not to appear in public wearing a hat, and was accused of setting a new fashion trend that depressed men's hat sales, a trend set in motion that carried through to the present.

Compare the visual impression of JFK to that of Eisenhower, Truman, or FDR. One would have to go back as far as TR to find anyone comparable. JFK was of an Irish-Catholic background, and as we experience with Obama today, this background evoked a first time bonding with people who had never identified with a candidate for president, before. I have not even mentioned that there had never been another first lady with Jackie's photogenic quality, coming at a time described as the first TV campaign and presidency. Obama and family do not generate the intensity or level of interest to make them competitive with the Kennedy family obsession, and they don't have a phenomena like the emerging ubiquity of television that the Kennedys had the opportunity to exploit.

Your near constant writing on the specifics of Obama's oath of office breaking....the exact opposite of his swearing to "defend and protect the constitution", makes it obvious to anyone who isn't shoved towards the center by the influence of the dysfunctional, right wing bent of perhaps 95 percent of American adults, that the rational reaction to the actions of the Obama administration is to call for his impeachment, now.

Isn't it obvious theres is no other way for the few actually oriented to the left of center who demand investigation of torture, rendition, cover up, and outrageous proposals for preventive detention, than start at the top, now, by demanding the commencement of the impeachment process, on ground you have thoroughly laid out now, for five months?

down the drain. Read Glenn's pieces, back to Obama's 180 on Telecom Amnesty, last year, and get some treatment for your aymptoms.

two right wings, and the two presidential candidates and the majority of senators and congressmen support the agenda and actions of the extreme right!

have to be to oppose Obama in reaction to perception that he is "of the left", and a "socialist"? This is a scary time, as after following national politics for nearly half a century, I have never witnessed a time when it was so obvious that the extreme right has been so open about their domination of the agenda and policy direction.

The criticism of Obama from the right has never seemed so irrational towards the poser fronting for the fake opposition, either...

I'm going to keep asking because logic dictates that this is the question to ask, and has been, going back at least as far as April, given what you gave documented, Glenn....

It is already way to late to "nip this in the bud", since Obama's betrayal of his oath of office is in full flower!

that he is obstructing instead of investigating. Is there any justification not to support initiation of an impeachment investigation of Obama in the House? Oh yeah....we have to preserve his domestic "initiatives"...things like passage of an environmental protection bill that is labelled by an environmentalist democrat, in an impassioned floor speech as more friendly to industry than to the environment, only to have Obama's thugs threaten revenge, in response to his no vote.

Yer gonna get THERE, Glenn. You make the case to begin the long road to impeachment. It is the obvious reaction to Obama, IMO.

My partisan "leanings" are not getting in the way of my realizing what needs to be done, I have none...I am left of center and I view Obama as the best republican president since Clinton. What about you, Glenn? Why are you hesitating? Give Obama a chance....a chance to do what?