A "Leadership Cult"

Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish  Jun 29 08

Jonah seems to think that people adopting Obama's middle name as their own is cultish. Isn't it more obviously a rebuke to the racists and xenophobes who will not vote for a man with that name? A signal of the... Full story...

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