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THE OBAMA MESSIAH WATCH. Timothy Noah of Slate is planning to make this a regular feature:
I therefore inaugurate the Obama Messiah Watch, which will periodically highlight gratuitously adoring biographical details that appear in newspaper, television, and magazine profiles of this otherworldly presence in our midst.What a wonderful idea! I'm sure that Noah had a similar Messiah Watch feature about John McCain. You know, the maverick. The last honest man. The man Noah described like this:
Like most reporters, Chatterbox harbors an admiration for John McCain's integrity, humor, and independence of mind that tends to distract him from substantive policy disagreements. (Click here and here to read two critical pieces Chatterbox forced himself to write about McCain's refusal to tax e-commerce.) There's no question that McCain is the finest person running for president this year; and, unlike George Bush p�re (who was the finest person running for president in 1992), McCain has a public persona that shows his character strengths to good advantage.-- J. Goodrich
