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To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (386466)	5/15/2009 10:18:39 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 436258

A rant worthy of CFZ Nothing to See Here! Move along... er, Forward! It's gratifying to find that sensible, practical citizens like calchala are comfortable with Obama's regal and avuncular decision-- or, rather, reversal of a putative decision-- to continue to conceal the troublesome and troubling images. After all, Obama hasn't been shy about reminding us that his Agenda is the highest priority. This is to be expected from an über-pragmatic technocrat. If pious Christians consider Scripture to be the Living Word, pious Obama apologists recognize that Obama is the Living Agenda. Although the widespread ecstasy has subsided over the past hundred days, there are still those who credit Obama with a profound vision of laboriously and incrementally transforming the present duopolistic wreckage of Amerikan politics into something wholesome and healthy. I think that generous leap of faith is, at least in part, responsible for the eleventeen-dimensional chess myth and other messianic attributes. But since Glenn and others have already noted Obama's incoherence, and have picked apart the sorry particulars, I'll just report my own exasperated incredulity at Obama's approach. I used the term "regal" because he indeed employs the insidious monarchical pose that We the People have tragically accorded to our Chief Executive. So we allow the King, formerly Bonnie Prince Barack, to royally inspect the controversial items and sagely report to the people... nothin' to see here! Move along! I truly believe that what passes for political pragmatism, even to advance an Agenda that purports to be virtous and humanistic, is an expression of narcissistic nihilism, or at least a cold-blooded, lethal cynicism. By this I mean that I have to believe that Obama cooly dishes out this kind of bullshit with gravy because he reckons that he can get away with it-- that the corporate media will take it up and throw it to the teevee and print infotainwhores, and that the Silent and Eternally Fearful Yahoo Majority will in turn catch the factoid feast pouring into the ether and gum and slobber it to extinction. In other words, Obama's preposterous pronouncement will just be another royal decree that will be discussed as such. Oh, a few astute analysts and journalists may squawk-- maybe a few critiques will pop up on HuffPo or CommonDreams. But the decision will have been made, and for better or worse Amerika marches on. He pretty much said that on the one hand, there's not much worth revealing; on the other hand, if we do reveal it-- regardless of what I just said-- chances are our enemies will become so pissed off that they'll Harm Our Troops. And it's supposed to work the other way around! That's good enough for idiots or fools or innocent children or the cognitively impaired, but not for grown-ups who are not dazzled by sycophancy. Like a recurring dream, I notice that I'm haunted by the recurring metaphor of Obama as Daddy driving the family car, and We the People the clamoring kids in the back seat. I might wind up with a collection of Obama as Daddy Driving vignettes or tableaux, if this keeps up. Here, it's like Daddy driving past the restaurant where the kids are dying to eat, and explaining that there are two perfectly good reasons why they're not dining there: The food is terrible! And the portions are so small! letters.salon.com