The Underground Conservative

Un-freakin-believable. Just when you thought you’ve heard it all on the “Cult of Obama,” there’s this:

It’s probably safe to say that you have arrived as a politician when your audience applauds when you blow your nose.

Yes, just a day before a debate in Texas, Sen. Barack Obama has a head cold.

And about a half-hour into a speech here, the Illinois Democrat announced that he had to take a quick break. “Gotta blow my nose here for a second,” Obama said.

Out came a Kleenex (or perhaps it was a hankie), and he wiped his nose.

The near-capacity audience at the Reunion Arena, which his campaign said totaled 17,000, broke out in a slightly awkward applause.

We already know about the Obama campaign rally fainting spells.

And then there’s this fawning praise, the kind usually reserved for cult leaders:

…when it comes to Obama, hyperbole seems to be the rule, not the exception.

His charms seem tough to resist, even for some of Hollywood’s biggest names.

“He walks into a room and you want to follow him somewhere, anywhere,” George Clooney told talk show host Charlie Rose.

Uh, sure, Mr. Clooney. Hopefully not off the edge of a cliff.

There’s more…

“I’ll do whatever he says to do,” actress Halle Berry said to the Philadelphia Daily News. “I’ll collect paper cups off the ground to make his pathway clear.”

Welcome to the cult of Barack Obama.

Welcome, indeed. I’m just waiting to hear the first celebrity say Obama’s you-know-what doesn’t stink–and said celebrity claiming to know because he/she actually smelled it.

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