The Plain Sense of Things
By Capt. Fogg
Remember when Obama was "the most liberal Senator" in the whole, wide world and we were supposed to tremble at the thought of his limitless liberalness making Capitalism illegal while the Government Printing office was strained to its limit printing little red books? Wasn't long ago.
Now what seems like a majority of those who voted for him are asking what things would be like if he really were a liberal. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi -- they don't seem much like the little red " far left liberal" devils we were warned about. In fact, with a health care bill that seems to have been written by the Health Care corporations and the anti-abortion Religious Right, some are asking if this isn't indeed a country for old men; the same old men whose exclusive country club it's been all along.
No, it's not like the crazy bastards we had for the last 8 years are back and in fact I think we'd have been far worse off had the Republicans won the White House once again, but still. It's like we had come to an end of the imagination -- a fantastic effort has failed, a repetition in a repetitiousness of men and lies.
(Cross posted from Human Voices)
After the leaves have fallen, we return
To a plain sense of things. It is as if
We had come to an end of the imagination,
Inanimate in an inert savoir.
-Wallace Stevens-
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To a plain sense of things. It is as if
We had come to an end of the imagination,
Inanimate in an inert savoir.
-Wallace Stevens-
___________________________
Remember when Obama was "the most liberal Senator" in the whole, wide world and we were supposed to tremble at the thought of his limitless liberalness making Capitalism illegal while the Government Printing office was strained to its limit printing little red books? Wasn't long ago.
Now what seems like a majority of those who voted for him are asking what things would be like if he really were a liberal. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi -- they don't seem much like the little red " far left liberal" devils we were warned about. In fact, with a health care bill that seems to have been written by the Health Care corporations and the anti-abortion Religious Right, some are asking if this isn't indeed a country for old men; the same old men whose exclusive country club it's been all along.
No, it's not like the crazy bastards we had for the last 8 years are back and in fact I think we'd have been far worse off had the Republicans won the White House once again, but still. It's like we had come to an end of the imagination -- a fantastic effort has failed, a repetition in a repetitiousness of men and lies.
(Cross posted from Human Voices)
Labels: declining America, President Obama
posted by Capt. Fogg at
4:30 PM
2 Comments:
You didn't really expect Obama could get away with it, did you? I know you find yourself to be hyperintelligent and hypereducated, but there are people who just don't think the way you do, Fogg. As Adam Lambert said about his being gay, "DEAL WITH IT!."
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Anonymous, at 1:57 PM
The point of the post was, of course, that Barak Obama is not as he was portrayed by the slime machine: an ultra-liberal, socialist, Marxist enemy of capitalism. He's basically a pragmatic centrist whose views on health care and many other things reflect a large and usually a majority portion of public sentiment. So who exactly do you thing was wrong here?
On the issue of health care, he reflects a majority of around two thirds. Unfortunately the majority does not wield the influence over their representatives that corporate billions can do.
If anyone needs to adjust the chip on his shoulder, it's you there in the basement of your fortress of mediocrity. You were wrong about Obama, not I. You insisted his supporters saw him as a messiah, but they didn't. We saw him as an improvement over the idiots and whores and crazies running against him. He is.
I don't think anyone needs to be hyper-anything to see it, but of course, just as the blind can't make much of arguments as to whether something is green or chartreuse, you really aren't equipped to tell anyone what or who is intelligent, now are you?
I assume Santa shit down your chimney last night, but don't say I didn't warn you or that you didn't deserve it and it's you who have a mess to clean up -- I don't even have a chimney.
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Capt. Fogg, at 10:42 AM
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