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Those Other Elections

By David Sirota

A month after Barack Obama’s triumphant victory, we are still celebrating America’s only authentic national religion, and it isn’t Christianity—it’s presidentialism, the worship of the president as an all-powerful, all-knowing deity who is the only important political actor in our country. This theology explains why both the public and the press corps seem far more interested in the Obama family dog… return to article

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