K on Barack Obama

[highlyeccentric]

I keep getting weirded out by all the Obama-mania, and find that the best way to think of it is not so much as people electing a politician, but as America electing a temporary king. It is weird to get so het up about a politician, but if you're treating someone as the consummate symbol of your nation, that's close enough to a king for me.

Says K just now: "I keep wanting to slap people on my flist and say "he's just a man!... You're right about the king thing, Americans electing their king. It's like the English thing where the King can cure scrofula. Except the whole country's got scrofula. Which is pretty gross, actually."