While the Barack Obama Cult of Personality shows weak and probably false signs of falling apart (PDF), I resist its siren call of “Hope,” “O-BA-MA,” and wrongheadedness on nearly every issue where he disagrees with either Hillary Clinton or John McCain. How, you ask? Simple: Tom Osborne is my Barack Obama.

Dr. Coach Congressman Tom Osborne is now the Athletic Director for the Nebraska Cornhuskers. He also gets press coverage that Obama can only dream of:

On Monday, several ASUN senators met with Tom Osborne and other Athletic Department officials to discuss the changes. Senators asked officials to return UNL student seats in sections 14 and 15 back from season ticket holders who were offered them last week.

“It was clear after meeting with the Athletic Department that there were no solutions,” said Joe Manglitz, a senior music education major who helped write the resolution. “What’s done is done.”

Greg Gifford, a humanities graduate student, tried to paint the rest of ASUN a picture of what it was like to meet with Osborne: “When you get a meeting with Dr. Osborne, you walk pass a statue of him and into a stadium with his name on it. It’s very intimidating.”

L.J. McElravy, a senior biochemistry major and ASUN senator, was also at the meeting. He told student senators some of the reasons the Athletic Department used to justify switching the seats.

And the final reason why Tom Osborne, and not the Senator from Illinois, is my Barack Obama? He’s actually accomplished something.