I missed the Rolla visit of the counterfeit messiah

Nope, I didn't go see the Missouri BO Townhall in Rolla. I won't vote for the Illinois senator, so I wouldn't bother going to see or hear him. If you're interested in the visit, then surely by now you've found the St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.

I was a little taken aback by the Rolla Daily News coverage of the preparations for the visit. After running nothing but a wire story about the announcement of the visit earlier in the week, the paper came back Tuesday night with egregious cheerleading. Here's the lead paragraph to the story: "Obama-mania has hit Rolla."
Oh, really?
The next few paragraphs are straight, but then we get this reporting: "The response to Obama’s visit has been phenomenal." Yep, the writer said "phenomenal."
That got him so wound up that he left me slack-jawed with this prose:

There were mothers with children in strollers.
There were young people.
There were people under umbrellas, seeking refuge from the July sun.
The elderly were there, too.
There were mothers. Fathers.
Grandparents.
Some had agendas, others just wanted to deliver a message...

The RDN writer should be forgiven for that silliness. It's an exciting time for most everybody else around here in Rolla, I guess.

I'm just a little uneasy about the future of the country, so if I forgive you for acting so goofy, will you please forgive my reluctance to join in the celebration?