Isn't it amusing to watch people who have called Obama-supporters 'worshippers'

[Summer Hathaway]

103. Sure.

The point of my OP is a simple one:

Obama supporters (myself among them) have been called hero-worshippers, who base their support solely on the man's charisma, personal charm, ability to dazzle with his speech-making skills, good looks, etc.

When an Obama supporter argues that we base our support on the man's past record, his actions, his priorities, his accomplishments and so on, we are are almost invariably met with, "Oh, you just idolize the man and, as such, you will believe anything he tells you."

The Snowden debacle has now shown that many of those same people who accuse others of hero-worship were quick to idolize Snowden as the Greatest American Hero - literally within days of learning his name for the first time.

Despite the fact that they had absolutely NO idea who Snowden was, and no track record on which to base any opinion of his trustworthiness, they immediately "believed anything he told them" - and still do, even though he has yet to prove his allegations about the NSA's vast "abuse of power".

The OP is just an observation that many DUers who dismiss Obama supporters as hero-worshippers were the quickest to fall for their own "hero" - and did so without raising a single question as to who their new-found idol is.