[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).

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

That is EXACTLY what I was thinking about through this whole ‘spectacle’.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Current events read like the first chapter — The Mississippi Scheme — with only the names changed, to protect the guilty.