China govt pleased but ordinary folk cool on Obama

By ALEXA OLESEN
BEIJING (AP) – State media heralded President Barack Obama's maiden trip to China as a triumph, but ordinary Chinese were largely shielded by their government from his most critical remarks and activists were disappointed by the measured tone of those they did hear.
One blogger even pined for the tough line taken by former [...]

Watch “V”

Many have made the connection between the new ABC series V and Obamania.  Judge for yourself — the pilot is now available at ABC.com.

 

‘V’ aims at Obamamania — ChicagoTribune.com

By Glenn Garvin

Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care.
The news media swoons in admiration — one simpering anchorman [...]

One year on, Obamamania gives way to luke warm support

A year on from a historic election, the spirit of popular goodwill that yielded America’s first black president has retreated to tepid support for Barack Obama as he presses his change agenda.
Since the November 4 poll, Obama’s visage has been everywhere, conspicuously on the streets of the nation’s capital where millions of foreign and domestic [...]

Sting: “In many ways, he’s sent from God,”

Sting isn’t a religious man, but he says President Barack Obama might be a divine answer to the world’s problems.
via Breitbart.com.

Barack Obama the Most Powerful Writer Since Julius Caesar? – Associated Content

There is a new president and a new NEA. The president first. This is the first president that actually writes his own books since Teddy Roosevelt and arguably the first to write them really well since Lincoln. If you accept the premise, and I do, that the United States is the most powerful country in [...]

Obama and the Balloon Boy – Townhall.com

Michael Medved :

In the Age of Obama, all dramatic developments connect somehow to the Dear Leader himself even a seemingly frivolous distraction like Balloon Boy. In fact, the strange but thoroughly publicized non-flight of young Falcon Heene offers unexpected illumination on the essential appeal of Obamanism.
Full article: Townhall.com.

Flopping Aces » – “Oba Mao”

The Obama administration loves Mao, and Maoists love them right back!
via Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Photo of the Day.

Anita Dunn: How We Created Obama’s Cult of Personality | NewsBusters.org

By Candance Moore
For months NewsBusters has been reporting how the media aided and abetted the creation of Barack Obama’s Cult of Personality leading to his eventual election as the 44th President of the United States.
Eight days before his inauguration, Obama’s Fox News-hating communications director Anita Dunn and his digital strategist Ben Self, while at a [...]

RealClearPolitics – Does Anyone Know Barack Obama?

By Richard Cohen
If, as the saying goes, the perfect is the enemy of the good, then Barack Obama is his own worst enemy. That becomes clear in the upcoming HBO documentary “By the People: The Election of Barack Obama,” which is the product of many months of behind-the-scenes access to Obama during the presidential campaign. [...]