- Obama bathed in light (photo on the right) from the White House website!! Pretty subtle, huh? (HT: Jonah Goldberg at the Corner).
- NewsReal - Obama using National Endownment for the Arts to Create a Cult of Personality
- Michelle Malkin - Obama's classroom campaign. Then needing to whitewash the teacher's talking points. Update: Malkin video interview.
- Then there's Jude's take (with a question why Joe Biden's photo never appears alongside Obama's as Cheney's did alongside Bush).
- Victor Davis Hanson, interviewed by Hugh Hewitt, commenting on Obama addressing U.S. school children:
This is what totalitarian societies do. They reach out to children in the schools who don’t have any choice. The teacher apparently can’t say you know what? I don’t want to do this, or a child can’t say I don’t want to read this, because it’s part of a mandated curriculum. . . I’ve been to Libya, and the first thing you see when you get into downtown Tripoli, is that everybody has to have a green book, and all the children have to wear green, and the same thing in China with the red scarf and the former Soviet Union. And that’s a method of the totalitarian manner, that children en masse have to hear a great leader speak to them. The Great Leader is never a guy with a Hitlerian mustache. He’s always a sympathetic, big brother-type figure that’s compassionate, soft-spoken, and that’s what Orwell was trying to get at. He was trying to warn people that totalitarianism is not going to come from an easy identifiable brown shirt. It’s going to come from somebody who’s going to take care of you. He’s going to tell you what kind of car you should have bought. He’s going to give you money when you make your mistakes. He’s going to help you get out of your mortgage. He’s going to take over the car industry for you. He’s going to give you health care. And he’s going to do all these things for you. That’s what’s really creepy about this entire broad assault on the traditional notion of what America used to be.