[lbo-talk] Obamaphilia "has gotten creepy, " LA Times Obama supporter writes

[B.]

[Linked from Krugman's blog where he warns about
Obama's health care reform prospects ("Obama is using
as a surrogate on health care Bush Dog Democrat Jim
Cooper") --
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/bad-health-care-omens/
-- as well as the backlash that Obamamania may, or is
already, starting to inspire:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/hype-and-glory/

    
-B.]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/02/18/2008-02-18_obama_manias_got_all_sides_screaming.html

[...]

"Obamaphilia has gotten creepy," wrote a pro-Obama Los
Angeles Times columnist, Joel Stein. "The best we
Obamaphiles can do is to refrain from embarrassing
ourselves."

Obama's rivals are trying to use Obamamania against
him.

In Ohio last week, Clinton said oratory and excitement
aren't enough.

"Words are cheap," she said in Lordstown, Ohio. "When
the bright lights are off and the speeches are over,
who can you count on to listen to you, to stand up for
you, to deliver solutions for you?"

Republican John McCain went even further in his Super
Tuesday slam on Obama.

"I do not seek the presidency on the presumption that
I am blessed with such personal greatness that history
has anointed me to save my country in its hour of
need," he said tartly.

Obama appears to have heard the rumblings.

Last week in Janesville, Wis., he told a crowd that he
would "take it down a notch" and give them a speech
that was "a little more detailed, a little longer,
with not as many applause lines."