Many commentators have taken a dim view of supporters of Senator Barack Obama’s campaign to win the U.S Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. 

Here is the New Stateman’s Andrew Stephen bemoaning the media’s treatment of Barack Obama in January:
“Obama’s relationship with the press and the electorate is still at the stage of starry-eyed infatuation. Yes, he is a mesmerising political orator who offers a magic elixir that somehow contains both stimulants and sedatives: that we need not worry about the present or future, because we can look forward to a new dawn of hope and reassurance in the safe hands of President Obama. Exactly how and why this would happen is not clear, but it is heady and exciting stuff.”

Pondering why the Democratic nomination race has become so fractious, the New York Times’ Paul Krugman said shortly after Super Tuesday back in February, in a piece entitled “Hate Springs Eternal”:
“I won’t try for fake evenhandedness here: most of the venom I see is coming from supporters of Mr. Obama, who want their hero or nobody. I’m not the first to point out that the Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality.”

So readers of TMP may be amused to watch this video clip of an Obama supporter being interviewed by a reporter who appears to presume the said supporter has no knowledge of Obama’s policy positions or how they differ from the other Democratic candidates, but is simply a fan of the Democratic candidate’s personality. The reporter finds it turns out to be quite the opposite with this Obama fan.