gonna be hard to beat

It's not even January 2nd yet, and I believe we already have a winner for the most un-self-aware post of 2009, courtesy of "The Politico." In an article that picks up where McCain's "Celebrity" ads left off, the authors explain how Obama is going to be "the Britney Spears of 2009" because of his popularity.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16975.html

The real giggle payoff is the sentence that starts with "with a faction of compliant, adulatory and skin-deep chroniclers added to the media mix..."

And that would be different from the last eight years how, exactly?