WHO REALLY WAS THAT MAN ? .....MASS MOUTHING OFF
Michael Freedberg -- The "Mass Mouth"

March 24, 2008 12:30PM EDT
Updated: March 24, 2008 03:41PM EDT
Tags: obama, politics, election_2008.

Here we are at March 24th, 2008, just four months into the Presidential election season, and already the tidal wave that was "Barack Obama" has receded -- with a vengeance. From idol worship to ill skepticism this phenomenon has gone, so over the top that you have to wonder now what it was all about. Who really WAS this man? WAS he a man, or just a craze ? I have seen crazes before in American politics, but usually they arise gradually, painfully. It took John F. Kennedy an entire election - and then some -- to achieve craze status. Ronald Reagan didn't really achieve it until after not two, but three entire national campaigns and one governorship race. Yet here was a craze that grew out of absolutely nowhere to such proportions that it almost swamped the Democrat party's all but designated nominee, a woman with a long and distinguished (if controversial) record.  read more »