[A_perfect_lady]

But with Obama, as with just about everything about his campaign, something feels different, more historic, deeper and more profound and even a bit more, how do you say, intimate.

Oh, just say it, Marky. He makes you hot hot hot. You want to bite his pillow, singing "Wake Me Up Inside!!"

Or maybe it's his remarkable, idealistic team of aides, his hotshot fresh-faced speechwriters, his wondrous oratory skill. Is it the cool campaign posters? Is it the game-altering speeches on race in America?

"Yooooo dooooo sahmthing to me..... sahmthing that simply mystifies me... tell me.... why should it be.... you have the power to hypNOTIIIIIIIIZE meeeeee!"

Some feel Obama will not survive. There are those who think something violent and lethal is bound to happen to him and not merely because he's black, but because he's too revolutionary, too much a force for harmony and peace, and the forces of darkness and oppression in America...simply cannot have that.

"Your own.... personal.... Jesus.... Reach out and touch me! (pant pant pant)"

[wideawake]

There are those who think something violent and lethal is bound to happen to him

That would be the worst nightmare ever for conservatives.

This Chicago machine hack would then become suddenly apotheosized into a martyred political god.

I hope Obama lives to be 100.