Obama wasn't born in Kenya. That much is certain. But he wasn't born of the Democratic Party either! Not the RIGHT way, anyway. Sure, he worked as a community organizer, slogging through those muddy democratic trenches in Chicago, and he even ran for office as a state guy and was elected. BUT. He did not work his way up through the political and economic power groups. He did not take those secret vows and make those binding commitments that are required by the American system. He did not agree with the Powers That Be that he would hold a Great Truth to be his (ostensible) goal, and then work to achieve Something Else, something more privately acceptable to those secret power groups.
Those great power groups did not worry. No need. They knew a secret. They knew Obama was black. They knew he couldn’t really win, but it would make them look good to have a black man run a good race. So they met with him, smiled and grinned with him, patted him on his back and extolled his virtues. And he accepted them as equals. And they pretended that was OK. After all, he might come in handy from time to time, even in the future.
But then came Big Tuesday and everyone gathered around to see the great Egg of Promise open and Hillary emerge to take the mantle of the party. Instead, Obama stepped out ! (God!) “We are so happy.” (What do we do now?) “Congratulations!” (We can’t run a black man!). . . and so on. And so on.
The Democratic Party is prone to this type of malfunction. Look at their last three presidents. First came Carter. He couldn’t win because he didn’t have the experience, but he was good press for the party they wanted to “help” him run. Then he accidentally got elected president! Second came Clinton. He couldn’t win because he was such a Good Ole Boy, but he was a lot of fun, and they wanted to get him out of the way. “Let him have his turn, now that we all know George HW Bush is going to be elected in a landslide!” Then came Oops. Now enter Obama. He can’t win either because he is black, but it will make us look good to show support for him.
So. Carter insisted on doing things the Right Way. He didn’t buckle down to the power groups. His first two years were miserable and no great forces came to his aid in the following two. Clinton also had two miserable years to begin, but then things mysteriously began to improve, got shiny and even brilliant. If his zipper had stayed up instead of his penis he might still be president. And now, Obama. Obama has played the middle. Normally, this is a safe pathway. But you can wind up making EVERYbody disappointed IN you and mad AT you. That’s about where obama is now. The choice for America was between a guy who had never pleased the Powers That Be, AND who hadn't tried to please the people who will be voting either, and then there was Romney, who had promised to please them all!
Remember, this election was the end of the line for Obama. His popularity rating after almost four years in power was about 40%. ANY republican could beat him. Any Generic republican would be a walk-in victor, all the republicans had to do was just fill in the blank!
Well, that turned out to be more than just a problem. Back then, the republicans were pretty smug. They knew they had an easy win coming and they could choose ANYbody. But. Well I won’t go through the sad list. I couldn’t do justice to what actually happened. Shakespeare, oh Shakespeare, where are you when we really need you? Look at what you did with druggy old King Lear, now just think what you could have done with the Republican Party in 2012! So it was just like last time when McCain was a shoo-in for president, until he put lipstick on a pit-bull-pig and chained himself to her.
So now Obama still isn’t a bone-fide member of the Democratic Party – or – has he actually become IT? Don’t ask the republicans, they’re out combing through their own ruins and shooting at each other. Meanwhile the bosses of the power groups are looking like a YouTube clip of those early flying machines trying to take-off. Stay tuned.
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