Dear Leader is not a joke

In far fewer words and more succinctly than I'd probably put what I've noticed since about November 4th-ish, 2008:

"If you're a comedian and you die and go to heaven, Bill Clinton is your president," said Robert J. Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University. "If you're a comedian and you die and go to hell, Barack Obama is your president."

Found on LA Times via Little Green Footballs.