More Cult of Personality

This Ross Douthat post deserves to be quoted in its entirety.  It accomplishes two things: it mocks TNR for their blindness on this issue and provides lots of ammo to back the Obama is a cult figure charge up:

Like Jon Chait, I don’t have the foggiest idea where someone would get the strange, strange notion that Barack Obama is being depicted with language and images usually reserved for a millenial cult leader. Obviously, those fiendish Republicans have made the whole thing up!