Two fleeting thoughts about the 41st president of the United States of America. This is thought number one.
The Obama mania we have all had to suffer with for seven months is hard to explain. Senator Obama himself is a hollow man with no strength of character, a propensity to lie in public (think 'he really does support NAFTA') and no accomplishments in his life outside of academia.
My explanation for Obama mania is that it is the reverse side of the coin. The coin has two sides. Think manic-depressive. One side of the coin is the Hate Bush Syndrome and the other side is the Love Obama Syndrome. One coin, two faces.
We know very little about group behavior, group hysteria. I see this two-sided coin thesis as one piece of empirical evidence about group behavior. Obama mania is the opposite of the Bush derangement syndrome: both occupy the same brains.