Watching Obama orate, speechifying with flair and gospel tinged repetition, I see the suckers lining up. What has he really done that prepares him for the presidency or, for that matter, what has Hillary done that prepares her for that office. By the time one runs for the presidency, the truer aspects of character are debrided, and what is left is husk. Americans “hunger” for change, they also hunger for more — of anything. We have gone beyond the Gilded-Age, for we are now saturated in the fats of excess. We are Roman. It is essentially the old saw that says society is corrupt — an antique truism, ever pertinent. The real task as I see it is not to be blind; what is the old and valid adage — “In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.” The conditioning in this society, in all societies, is monumental. The bricks of this campaign are troweled on with bullshit. I hear no attempt to cut through the American brie and say what has to be said — to wit, the betrayal of our fellow Americans in New Orleans; the mortgage frauds perpetuated by banks; the constitutional violation of our rights under this abysmal administration — no, we get Obama, sallying forth on his donkey, revivifying bromides. He couldn’t “change” my water filter. At this time in my life I struggle real hard from becoming numb and from being soiled.
And so we will end up with someone, makes no difference, in my eyes. McCain who publically rather than individually — and privately — raising the flag of his better days in the Hanoi Hilton — again, no shame; Hillary latently displaying how she has mastered the old stud, and Obama riding on music, sound and fury signifying nothing.
And so it goes, as Vonnegut would sign off.
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