Senator Obama’s acceptance speech at the DNC drew rave reviews from America’s leading political commentators. It featured this line which caught our attention:

I stand before you tonight because all across America something is stirring. What the nay-sayers don’t understand is that this election has never been about me. It’s been about you.

He’s got a point. The near-religious adulation accorded to a fellow with a thin résumé is most understandable in the context of the will to believe, the ardent desire of so many for a Messiah to save them. In a country that has seen numerous religious revivals and spasms of romanticism like Prohibition, underestimating the power of such yearnings is a mistake.

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