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Obama seem leaden
Jan. 4th, 2008 11:49 amOk, not really. His win speech last night, while a bit hubristic (i.e., "We won here so I'm President now"), was rousing. It was shiny enough that almost believed it had some substance. I almost believed that an Obama presidency would be substantially different than the status quo. But then again, I expected a Democraptic congress to actually make some changes rather than their invariable, obsequious bottoming for King George.
Disclaimer: I certainly do believe that an Obama presidency will be an improvement on the Bush presidency. But I'm not betting on any kind of dramatic reversal of the oligarchy our fedgov has capitulated wholly to.
The thing about Obama's hifalutin rhetoric that fails to inspire (in me) the sort of hope he lays such enthusiastic claim to is his utter refusal to paint the current administration as comprising an active crime syndicate—I'm seriously not even SLIGHTLY joking now—bent on the redistribution of wealth from bottom to top at the deliberate expense of civil liberties, international politics, and the health of the planet. Maybe it's simply impossible for someone running for president to state things so starkly, but frankly Obama's tired old posturing about "uniting rather than dividing" is just so much more bullshit. I do not want my chief executive or congress doing ANYTHING to unite with OCRAP politicians who serve exclusively as country-club gatekeepers to the robber barons in charge of the leading multinational energy and pharmaceutical corporations (among others); I don't want my chief executive or congress doing ANYTHING to unite with people who believe that our national laws and policy must comply with their delusions about some make-believe super-daddy-in-the-sky's opinions on what people should and should not do with their genitalia and their lives. FUCK UNITING: get these miserable fucking assholes OUT of my government. Now. Please.
Oh yeah, one more thing that annoys me is that Obama and everybody else (even Michael Moore) keep on keeping on calling what we're doing in Iraq a "war"... I just can't figure, and can't excuse, these folks' playing right into the OCRAP rhetoric that we're somehow waging an active and necessary war in Iraq, rather than an aggressive, hostile, colonial, wholly illegal, destructive, interminable, and unmanageable occupation.
Every single flier and poster and banner around Obama last night had the word "change" on it. Yeah fucking right.
Disclaimer: I certainly do believe that an Obama presidency will be an improvement on the Bush presidency. But I'm not betting on any kind of dramatic reversal of the oligarchy our fedgov has capitulated wholly to.
The thing about Obama's hifalutin rhetoric that fails to inspire (in me) the sort of hope he lays such enthusiastic claim to is his utter refusal to paint the current administration as comprising an active crime syndicate—I'm seriously not even SLIGHTLY joking now—bent on the redistribution of wealth from bottom to top at the deliberate expense of civil liberties, international politics, and the health of the planet. Maybe it's simply impossible for someone running for president to state things so starkly, but frankly Obama's tired old posturing about "uniting rather than dividing" is just so much more bullshit. I do not want my chief executive or congress doing ANYTHING to unite with OCRAP politicians who serve exclusively as country-club gatekeepers to the robber barons in charge of the leading multinational energy and pharmaceutical corporations (among others); I don't want my chief executive or congress doing ANYTHING to unite with people who believe that our national laws and policy must comply with their delusions about some make-believe super-daddy-in-the-sky's opinions on what people should and should not do with their genitalia and their lives. FUCK UNITING: get these miserable fucking assholes OUT of my government. Now. Please.
Oh yeah, one more thing that annoys me is that Obama and everybody else (even Michael Moore) keep on keeping on calling what we're doing in Iraq a "war"... I just can't figure, and can't excuse, these folks' playing right into the OCRAP rhetoric that we're somehow waging an active and necessary war in Iraq, rather than an aggressive, hostile, colonial, wholly illegal, destructive, interminable, and unmanageable occupation.
Every single flier and poster and banner around Obama last night had the word "change" on it. Yeah fucking right.
