Much can be made about Senator Obama’s leftist agenda, but he is hardly alone in promoting socialist policies. I think the aspect of the Obama machine that is downright scary isn’t so much its agenda as the religious devotion of his movement and the potential megalomania it would logically foster.

When I see Barack Obama, I don’t only see a high achieving graduate of Columbia and Harvard who became a U.S. Senator. I also see a bully magnet from the streets of Djakarta. Even when he lived in Indonesia, he always wanted to be in charge. Barack Obama comes across to me as someone who is simultaneously a control freak and someone who feeds off the adulation of crowds.

Barack Obama faces a lingering worry that he would identify with Javanese bullies who threw him into a pond rather than Americans who were nice to him. He faces a lingering worry that he would pine after his Kenyan father who rejected and abandoned him. He faces a lingering worry that Jeremiah Wright is like a father to him, a surrogate father to a man who was abandoned by his genetic father, that Barack Obama could no more reject Jeremiah Wright and his teachings than reject his own maternal grandmother. Barack Obama faces a suspicion that he wears a mask, a mask of smooth self-assurance over a volcanic temper.

Is he intensely appealing to many Americans? Of course. Yet, is he a man who seeks the admiration of millions to salve a wounded psyche? Given how he got so relentlessly picked on in Djakarta, and it would be difficult to imagine how such a man would not have some kind of axe to grind.

What would happen if millions of Americans vote for Dr. Jekyll?