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James Vicevich, a Connecticut radio talk show host, takes note of yet another creepy element of the Obama campaign...

Or maybe just the same things keep happening... with the same responses, same timing - you'd almost think it was scripted or something...

In fact, some folks do.

What exactly are we to make of this? A cynic might wonder if the whole thing isn't staged, given how often it happens and how well-honed and self-serving Obama's standard response seems to be.

But if it's spontaneous, that's in a way even more unsettling. At the New Hampshire rally, Larry David of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" fame quipped, "Sinatra had the same effect on people." Sinatra made girls swoon by singing romantic songs. But America isn't electing a crooner in chief.

Obama has a talent for eliciting intense emotion--an ability that can be dangerous in a politician. What more does he have to offer? That's a hard question to answer, and it makes the prospect of an Obama presidency quite worrisome.

I don't want a 'charismatic' President, able to make his consitituents 'swoon'. Emotions are one thing - although Sinatra was a great singer, I don't htink he would have been a good President.

The alternative, that this is 'scripted' - is even less appealing. The Democrats DO think their 'base' is gullible as hell, if so.

By the way, the guy at work I mentioned? I've tried asking him what 'Change' means - he says Hillary will make things better for us all. I can't get him to define 'better', though.

But he believes. Oh,yes - he believes.

J.