[Mr. Mojo]

Excessive emotion, particularly the inflated emotion of the crowd, is something that should always be distrusted,

Perhaps Obamamania will one day be chronicled in an updated version of Charles Mackay's classic from 1841 Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds (highly recommended).

[Vigilanteman]

That is why the hysterical hoopla that has built them up is indeed important, because it is dangerous. We’ve had the circuses, the masses will soon say. Now we want the bread. And what will happen to the emperor who cannot provide it?

Shouldn't be too hard now that he has only promised a tax cut to 95% of Americans and a change in the global weather for the better. < / sarcasm >

[Txsleuth]

Okay...that one had me rolling my eyes so much I have a headache.

Gotta hand it to her, she took a different map to the same obama worship as all other journalists have.

[Tax-chick]

It was very annoying, particularly when someone asked me why I wasn’t sitting enraptured in front of a television somewhere.

*Anything* is more important than watching an event on television. Returning library books that aren't due yet, cleaning the dog's ears, writing to your mother-in-law ... if this person actually thinks watching the inauguration (*any* inauguration) is important, she's an idiot. The event will happen whether she, or anyone, sees it.

[ArchAngel1983]

I couldn’t bear to watch the ascension. It would be like watching 9/11 over again.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

"Our best hope is that Barack Obama can resist the rabble-rousers"

What an irony-rich headline. Obama can't "resist the rabble-rousers". Obama is a professional rabble-rouser (AKA "community organizer"). In fact, he exemplifies the ne plus ultra of community organizing -- he's not just "a rabble-rouser" -- he's "the rabble-rouser". As for the rabble -- that's who put him in power.

[Beckwith]

Obama is a rabble-rouser. What do you think a community organizer does for a living?

[dianed]

OH, now seriously, are we really going to shift the blame for Obama’s predictable failure from Bush to the MSM so soon?

[popdonnelly]

Obama hangs with the rabble rousers. See, e.g., Wright and Ayers.

[mikrofon]

The happiness of that moment hasn’t faded, nor has the reminder that politics can occasionally throw up someone who appears to be truly inspiring

The fact that the moment was thought to be so happy and inspirational makes one want to throw up...

[randita]

This article echoes Rush. He says often there’s a limit to the level of emotion that can be tapped into.