The GOP has been quick to paint Obama as a vapid celebrity, with no genuine merits beyond his celebrity. Republican pundits have compared Obama's drawing huge crowds in Germany to Hitler speeches.
It seems that the same dynamic that is governing Obama's popularity-liberal ideas; a new, young look; and a "movement" rather than just content-sounds more like the Beatles and Beatlemania than any of these other comparisons. Thousands of people energized over a person, their ideas, and their celebrity?
But hey, that was the Beatles-and they were just a passing fad, no longer remembered for their actual music, right?
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