A friend of mine just sent me this Seattlest link. Apparently this cat, Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist, is going to be speaking at Town Hall tonight (7:30 p.m., $5) I know nothing of the man, but I guess he has a theory that humans are “predictably irrational”, meaning we can’t think our way out of making mistakes. Below is his take on the Barack Obama lovefest, which I have feared very much since the word go. It’s not the candidate I fear, mind you…it’s the cult of personality surrounding someone we know so little about.”In my estimation one of the charms of Obama is that we know so little about him (we definitely know less about him than about Clinton), and I assume that this lack of knowledge, coupled with our tendency to fill in the missing information in an over-optimistic way is one of the reasons for the Obama love fest. It also means that we should expect a hard and disappointing awakening as we learn more about Obama and realize that he is not the super-human we now imagine him to be.”