Obama Supporters Finding It Hard To Criticize Obama After The Elevated Him To Messiah Status

Now that Obama is populating his administration with Clinton retreads and perceived centrists the far-left activists who worked slavishly for his campaign are starting to wonder where all their hope ‘n change is. And they’d criticize Obama more, but they’re finding it hard to now that they’ve elevated him to messiah status.

Kevin Martin, executive director of the group Peace Action, said that although Obama had campaigned as an agent of change, the president-elect is “a fairly centrist guy” who appears to be choosing from the Democratic foreign policy establishment — “and nobody from outside it.”
“So, in the short term, we’re going to be disappointed,” he said. “They may turn out to be all pro-war, or at least people who were pro-war in the beginning.”
Martin said that his group was concerned about Gates and Clinton as well as Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s choice for White House chief of staff. He also said his group was trying to mobilize its grass-roots supporters with e-mail alerts, but recognized that it must approach the subject delicately because of public euphoria over Obama’s historic victory.
“There’s so much Obama hero worship, we’re having to walk this line where we can’t directly criticize him,” he said. “But we are expressing concern.”

This is the problem with personality cults. Once that personality has power it’s hard to move outside of the cult to criticize him.