'Now critics are quietly voicing the fear that Mr Obama and his campaign
have deliberately adopted the tone and tactics of an evangelical
preacher, whipping up “Obamamania” at the expense of more serious
discussion of policy and government.
There is “something just a wee bit creepy about the mass
messianism” deployed by the black senator and his supporters, observed
Joe Klein, the veteran political commentator the first to latch on to
the political potency of Bill Clinton, then an obscure Arkansas
governor, early in the 1992 White House campaign.
“The message
is becoming dangerously self-referential,” he wrote in Time magazine.
“The Obama campaign all too often is about how wonderful the Obama
campaign is".'
