Brit wits want to know. Whatever the ailment, it must be dicier than jetlag, and more contagious. We’ve noticed it, too. On television, at least one conservative talking head per day has blown a tube on the air; it started two weeks ago, right around the time Obama started getting on planes. What gives? WAC? voted for John McCain–but he (WAC?, or McCain for that matter) is not crazy from the loss. The Economist, too, wonders about “The Obama Derangement Syndrome“:
Mr Obama may be widely admired both at home and abroad. But there are millions of Americans who do not like the cut of his jib””and a few whose dislike boils over into white-hot hatred…. The internet crackles with comparisons between Mr Obama and various dictators (Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini) or assorted psychotics (Charles Manson and David Koresh).