Can His Changeliness tolerate humor? (Even Maureen Dowd thinks he should lighten up.) Well, this should help. The Obama portion of the latest Jib-Jab offering is better than any negative ad you are likely to see this campaign season. (And if you think they are kidding about Hillary’s impending return –think again. She’s already squirreling away money for 2012, just in case.)

But as Dowd observed, the “Ye shall not mock” directive is part of the cultic celebration of Obama (which the candidate has encouraged). Even friendly comics have observed their audiences’ aversion to laughing at Obama’s expense.

This is all, of course, part of the grave awe and reverence with which we are to regard Obama. He is no mere politician. He’s the Agent of Change. Michael Medved wonders: “How can intelligent and responsible people fall for this mass hysteria over a politician whose only real accomplishment in 47 years of living has been to build up the mass hysteria and messianic expectations surrounding this campaign?” Well, if you have to ask, you’ll never know. (Obviously.) But when a refusal to be mocked (and the campaign’s main slogan) become the subject of mocking, then perhaps the spell is lifting.

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