Amazon is selling Pocket Obama. It's 156 pages of, er, goo, with one treacly sentiment per page, and at the bottom is a threat--"Copyrighted material." No doubt we are being enjoined from stealing it; I rather think they're boasting.

From the Amazon blurb:

This is the little blue book that right-wing partisans love to hate. Printed in a size that easily fits into pocket or purse, POCKET OBAMA is an anthology of quotations borrowed from Barack Obama's speeches and writings, intended to keep the momentum going for those inspired by his message of hope and change. The portable book serves as a reminder of the remarkable ability of this man to move people with his words, a primer for readers who want to examine the substance of his thought and reflect on the next great chapter in the American story. His captivating oratory has earned comparisons to John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and this collection presents words that catapulted his remarkable rise to the American Presidency and set a true course for the future. Includes themes of democracy, politics, war, terrorism, race, community, jurisprudence, faith, personal responsibility, national identity, and above all, his hoped-for vision of a new America. POCKET OBAMA is essential reading as we pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin the work of remaking America.

Notice that start--on the same level as, "Call in the next 15 minutes!" as some shouting fat man booms crap at you at 3 AM. It's impossible to lampoon the lickspittle gush of that fool blurb-writer. Right-wing partisans "love" to hate it? You don't have to be a partisan or even right-wing to contemn it and those who mistake these little platitudes and bromides and non-sequiturs for wisdom. Although I might be stretching to say that some are non-sequiturs for a non-sequitur normally takes more words to have two conflicting ideas.

Andrew Ferguson, an intelligent and thoughtful man, and a very graceful writer, reviewed the campaign books of all the candidates perhaps nine months ago for The Weekly Standard. Obama's first book, he wrote, was one of the best of the now-abandoned class of thirtysomething memoirists; his second book was just a campaign book. In his typical gently snide fashion, Ferguson thought it a bad deal to trade a good writer for just another politician.

You can read inside this Little Blue Book of The One's, and choose a random page. It doesn't matter for they're all much the same. Too bad from a man who, Ferguson said, is the best presidential writer since Teddy Roosevelt.

It's proof of the sad fact that Obama has turned himself into a cult figure and vacated his sensibility to become Clinton II, so pleased that he is in the White House that everything must be sacrificed for it.

And it is sacrifice too, for after a while, how can you tell the dancer from the dance? Or as a friend of mine said about Bill Clinton, "He believes his own bullshit."