Whether or not Obama supporters on the individual level believe it personally, there is a perception that Obama is going to save us all. I’ve heard it on talk radio and I’ve seen it on the internet; people are bowing down before the Altar of Obama, praying that their knight in shining armor will come and save them.

Pardon my skepticism here, but perception can be a dangerous thing. Especially when it’s a flawed perception.

I am personally no more ready to accept Obama as my personal President and savior than I am to hand over the keys to a senior citizen. It seems a little outrageous to assume that one man will turn the world upside-down in one night and wipe away everything that is wrong in this country. Heck, it took Jesus three days, plus another 50 before his disciples even decided to go spread his teachings. And that’s even if you believe he was no more than a good teacher.

The thing is, the cult-like aura around Obama surpasses even Ron Paul’s following in scope and fervor, and Ron Paul was considered the candidate for our future when he was running. Just as I couldn’t escape Ron Paul back a year ago, today, you can’t escape the Obama love.

The Obama crowd even has its radicals, hyperliberals with enough fervor to make the most hardcore Christian fundamentalists blink. These people, while not speaking for the majority of Obama supporters, are the most vocal, even going so far as to curse out and condemn those who deny their beloved candidate his rightful place as President. If you think I’m exaggerating, go look around the Internet. You’ll find them.

The thing is, these blowhards are only denying the truth: it doesn’t matter who wins this election. The problems that this country is facing, economically, socially, and environmentally, are complex problems that demand complex solutions. No one is willing to admit that, say, the economic system has gotten so messed up that we can predict the weather more easily than we can predict what’s going to happen on Wall Street. And I say this coming from a state in the Union where thunderstorms can and do pop up with little or no warning, and the best meteorologists in the country can’t see it coming. Our complex problems are going to require solutions that take a while. Anyone who claims to be able to fix things in less than five or ten years is lying to you.

It is this very Messianic perception of Obama that makes me not want to vote for him. The thing is, as Ozzy Osbourne says, “I don’t need another savior.” We can’t afford to wait around for a knight in shining armor to come and save us, because it’s never going to happen. Obama can win, and nothing will change. We will still have to face the problems we are facing unless we start to do something about it now. I don’t know about you, but I would rather do something and have a infinitesimal chance at survival than die waiting for the savior that will never come. By God and the Founding Fathers, if this country’s heading headlong towards the end, I want to go down fighting. That is where my hope lies, not in some idealized figure whom, whether you like it or not, is just as much a politician as the other guy.