Writing about unstoppable Obama in the February 14th Huffington Post, writer Barbara Ehrenreich tries to describe his “mysterious and irrational” appeal: “He’s a ‘rock star,’ all flash and no substance, tending dangerously, according to the New York Times’ Paul Krugman, to a ‘cult of personality.’” If he “supposedly goes for the id,” Hillary Rodham Clinton is the “designated valedictorian” who reaches for the more rational, and controlling, ego and super-ego. “She might as well be promoting choral singing in the face of Beatlemania,” Ehrenreich comments, and (in what the February 26th Globe and Mail considers a “gratuitously nasty swipe”), suggests …read more