>A surprising article, because it is in Time magazine.
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>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2015629,00.html
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>Snippet:
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>A sense of disappointment, bordering on betrayal, has been growing across the country, especially in moderate states like Indiana, where people now openly say they didn't quite understand the President they voted for in 2008. The fear most often expressed is that Obama is taking the country somewhere they don't want to go. "We bought what he said. He offered a lot of hope,"
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>the messy compromises in health care reform, his sense of an inhospitable business climate and the growth of government spending under Obama. "He's trying to Europeanize us, and the Europeans are going the other way," continues Ferlic, a former Democratic campaign donor who plans to vote Republican this year. "The entire American spirit is being broken."
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>At one time, Time was a part of the admiration game (remember the Obama/Roosevelt cover?):
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>http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20081124,00.html

As Hoffer observed so long ago, the essence of the True Believer is the need to believe, to give oneself up to the charismatic leader. But like the worship of movie stars, it can be a fickle admiration. And when the tide turns it can get very ugly.

I wonder if anyone in the GOP is going to have the sense to capitalize on this and run someone for President with both a resume and the real-world experience and business knowledge to make the contrast stark. They don't need a partisan Obama-on-the-right - they need Eisenhower.