Every time I see Barack Obama deliver one of his perfect teleprompter speeches before a crowd of adoring masses, chanting, “Yes, we can,” I suffer at least one full day of Obama Stun Syndrome.

It’s that dreaded moment of reality check, when I must face the fact that things like maniacal political movements can and do still happen.  When I listen to the chanting young people, who act for all the world like children in the sway of a modern-day pied piper, then I am forced to come to grips with the fact that these are American young people.

They are supposedly well-educated.  They are supposedly taught to know better than to believe in empty slogans and fancy two-step rhetoric.  They ought to know better by now than to accept words over verifiable experience and a real record of accomplishment.  They ought to be able to dissect promises on the basis of whether they can practically be fulfilled, and in exactly what manner that would happen.  And they have even more history than we did with which to judge candidates’ grand schemes.

Yet, every time I see another Hail Obama rally like his victory gathering last night in Minneapolis, I am brought back to reality as if someone doused me with a bucket of cold water, and I am literally stunned.

I keep trying to remind myself that we live in the information age, have the internet and it’s YouTube and dedicated bloggers recording the things that an ideological press seeks to ignore in the interest of their own chosen candidate.

I know that already bloggers all over the realm have picked up on the fact that only 2 weeks ago in the Pacific Northwest, Obama said it was downright silly to worry about “tiny countries,” like Iran, Cuba, Venezuela and the like causing a real threat to America or her allies.  And many will report that today in front of an AIPAC audience, Obama did his usual about face and said he knows that Iran poses a grave threat to Israel and to America.  But are the adoring masses even listening?

I know that when Obama invents a relative and places him in the wrong place at the wrong time, that many watchdog citizen journalists will pick up on it immediately and point it out.  Some of Obama’s followers will surely begin to see the man for the embellisher and liar that he has proven himself to be again and again and again.  Isn’t this an antidote to leader worship?

And I keep reminding myself, too, that just because a camera catches the throngs in Obama’s wake does not mean that’s all there is to the picture.  Just like it was revealed after the fact that the immense crowd in Oregon last month was the result of a free rock concert preceding Obama’s short appearance in the same park, other manipulations may be occurring without our knowledge.

After all, George Soros paid lots of anti-war demonstrators last summer to swell their numbers for the cameras, and Soros is supporting Obama with his deep, deep pockets.  So perhaps all those people we see at the rallies aren’t just there because they are in the thrall of Obama.

Nevertheless, I’m still stunned.  At least for today.

Tomorrow, I’ll pick myself back up, get my brain going again and try to write about the things I’ve discovered about Obama that are the scariest things I’ve ever seen in American politics.

Until then, I’m taking a chill pill and pretending this is still America.  No matter that the world is beginning to look like 1939, and a political messiah with nothing good up his sleeve seems poised to take over the Oval Office.

I’ll think about all of this tomorrow.