It's after midnight in GMT+2 and though my eyesight is fading, i've just seen the news that Barak Obama has clinched the democratic party nomination... unlike the anniversary of Chernobyl's meltdown (too down & out to even type), i'm not going to pass this without comment.
One understands from the perspective of party politics in the land of the blues that this is an historic outcome. One also understands that saviordom and arrogance are not compatible, and when Obama becomes president (as i expect he will) very little substantive, fundamental change is going to flow from his desk. Pundits compare him to JFK, a romantic analogy in a time of totally lost leadership - particularly at the outermost, imperial rim of the many concentric circles closing in around our lives. However, i am mostly reminded of Bill Clinton's ascension to the offal office, as there was a similar type of 'change is a' comin'" euphoria in the air (yes, even here in the EU). We all know how quickly that melted into a repentant, defanged lycanthropy.
Since i'm advocating for Cynthia McKinney, forget about dishing me as a racist dissenter. One of the last political events i attended before leaving the US was a rally in Oakland for Barbara Lee, graced by the likes of Alice Walker, Danny Glover, Amira Barka and Maxine Hong Kingston. i left wondering why the white offshore banking aristocrats were still in control of 'the conversation,' when the greatest, most astute visionaries are all non-white. The crux of the problem is that Obama is not talking about a substantially different way of doing business; instead, he's filling people's heads with the fantasy that using the same structural models now in place, a different outcome is possible. That's not gonna do it. The whole structure of decision-making needs to be rethought and decentralized in a very radical way. Now there's a word i'm sure the Great BO has yet to hold up to his campaign kaleidescope: decentralization. The fundamental antithesis of what's been going down these past neo-libcon years (if not before) and if we are really ready for change, and really want it, then realigning the dots between who makes decisions about what happens and where has got to be the starting point.
At any rate and as i've mentioned before in this space, BO is at least competent and the system as it now coagulates will likely be managed a bit better. Killary wasn't talking nonsense with that "ready on Day One" line - the Clinton gang was so full of themselves for making it to Pennsylvania Ave that they ended up selling their public souls early on just for the pittance of an approved budget. They weren't prepared to run the federal government and totally lost control of their (albeit moderate) agenda. Campaign promises were traded for packets of power, and the same will happen with Obama because he's already committed himself to not shaking the tree at its roots. He'll need those little packets to save face, cuz one place he's sure not to go is across the street to Lafayette Park - or any other pitstop on Desolation Row.
One understands from the perspective of party politics in the land of the blues that this is an historic outcome. One also understands that saviordom and arrogance are not compatible, and when Obama becomes president (as i expect he will) very little substantive, fundamental change is going to flow from his desk. Pundits compare him to JFK, a romantic analogy in a time of totally lost leadership - particularly at the outermost, imperial rim of the many concentric circles closing in around our lives. However, i am mostly reminded of Bill Clinton's ascension to the offal office, as there was a similar type of 'change is a' comin'" euphoria in the air (yes, even here in the EU). We all know how quickly that melted into a repentant, defanged lycanthropy.
Since i'm advocating for Cynthia McKinney, forget about dishing me as a racist dissenter. One of the last political events i attended before leaving the US was a rally in Oakland for Barbara Lee, graced by the likes of Alice Walker, Danny Glover, Amira Barka and Maxine Hong Kingston. i left wondering why the white offshore banking aristocrats were still in control of 'the conversation,' when the greatest, most astute visionaries are all non-white. The crux of the problem is that Obama is not talking about a substantially different way of doing business; instead, he's filling people's heads with the fantasy that using the same structural models now in place, a different outcome is possible. That's not gonna do it. The whole structure of decision-making needs to be rethought and decentralized in a very radical way. Now there's a word i'm sure the Great BO has yet to hold up to his campaign kaleidescope: decentralization. The fundamental antithesis of what's been going down these past neo-libcon years (if not before) and if we are really ready for change, and really want it, then realigning the dots between who makes decisions about what happens and where has got to be the starting point.
At any rate and as i've mentioned before in this space, BO is at least competent and the system as it now coagulates will likely be managed a bit better. Killary wasn't talking nonsense with that "ready on Day One" line - the Clinton gang was so full of themselves for making it to Pennsylvania Ave that they ended up selling their public souls early on just for the pittance of an approved budget. They weren't prepared to run the federal government and totally lost control of their (albeit moderate) agenda. Campaign promises were traded for packets of power, and the same will happen with Obama because he's already committed himself to not shaking the tree at its roots. He'll need those little packets to save face, cuz one place he's sure not to go is across the street to Lafayette Park - or any other pitstop on Desolation Row.
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