John J. Pitney Jr.
As we look to the next 2-4 years, we should keep in mind this passage from Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ: "A prophet is the one who, when everyone else despairs hopes. And when everyone else hopes, he despairs. You'll ask me why. It's because he has mastered the Great Secret: that the Wheel turns.”
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Tonight I'm looking for hope in the bottom of a bottle of German Riesling.
Well, the bottom of a couple of glasses of it, anyway...
I went from a building full of starry-eyed obama followers to a meeting room full of glass half-full obama supporters. Is this whole town under that man's spell????
My talking points about why McCain would have been the lesser of evils were greeted as if they had just fallen from outer space. Which they did, if one were to rely on the CBC for one's current events instruction. No one had ever heard of anything that I was talking about. Sigh...
The clear agenda for the next election is: better distribution of information.
Starting tomorrow... tonight, I feel the need to get a little drunk.
Okay, I'm out of my funk.
On to victory, let's do better the next time!
What's left of the MSM were apparently looking to Obama for something like the next 700 Billion bail-out.
But I think ultimately this election was a victory of White Guilt/victimary politics, and BDS. Let us work to see that this is their apex. Obama will keep playing with this victimary symbolism, as he doesn't have many other tricks. As his rhetoric meets the law of diminishing returns he may get more thuggish. Well, we need to find courage to stand up against that and stand with those who vear the brunt of the false Messiah.
Obama is actively shrinking the possibilities of the present by talking about change as a more or less singular imperative to redress a fallen past (and in his case, a blank or shameful past) and to make some necessary, if ill-defined, future. This shrinkage is the charismatic conceit that always fails humanity. We should work to fight to keep the present open to maximal freedom. That is what the humane owe to those bamboozled by a cult of personality and Gnostic-imperial symbolism...
I do love it. I love this wallow of the deluded in their own sticky stink. Let them come later to see the mess they've made is the mess they made. Then, Arise, ye mighty Palinites!
Yes, I do love it. This stench of a false messiah is the smell of coming victory.
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