Cult of Personality

Generally, personality cults are most common in regimes with totalitarian systems of government, that seek to radically alter or transform society according to revolutionary new ideas. Often, a single leader becomes associated with this revolutionary transformation, and he becomes treated as a benevolent "guide" for the nation, without whom the transformation to a better future cannot occur.

You are seeing a personality cult develop in pretty much full swing before your eyes, if you are not blinded by it. That paragraph describes Obama to a T.