If you've read my previous post, you have no doubt concluded that practically every fiber of my being throbs with antipathy to the idea of an Obama presidency. And yet it is not in my nature to dwell on what cannot be undone. I mock, and move on. You can think of this post as a grim testament to the resilience of the human spirit.
I won't go so far as to say that I have seen the light, opened my heart, and fully embraced The One. I, unlike others, don't believe that a "philosopher-king" has come to us in times of trouble, that Obama is a "light-being" whose spiritual interconnectedness will be the catalyst for the whole planet to begin healing, or that this heralds a new dawn of understanding among nations (all of which have been said about an Obama presidency, with a painful kind of earnestness, at some time or another). But I can't say I was wildly supportive of McCain/Palin either.
It is true that the spectacle of white liberals congratulating themselves in a repellently smug fashion on their enlightened superiority has not been an attractive one. I will welcome our so-called "post-racial future" with the rest of them not when we vote for a man because he is black, but when we can not vote for a man despite the fact that he's black. And the media have failed abysmally in their mandate to investigate and report on an Obama candidacy with anything approaching objectivity, stopping just this side of throwing their knickers onstage at a rally.
And yet even hard-bitten realists like myself are not entirely immune to the coolness factor of a President Barack Hussein Obama in charge at the White House (although it is rather offset by the decided clownishness of a Vice President Joe Biden). Which is, I suppose, why the appeal of the idea of the man is such that so many are staunchly determined to remain ignorant of his reality.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
In which Sharon expresses her measured take on the recent U.S. elections
Mulling over the recent U.S. elections in my usual staid fashion, it occurred to me to wonder: just what is up with these lObamatized Obamaniacs and their irritating Facebook statuses?
As a person of the world, I wrestle with these weighty questions but I just can’t seem to get it. I mean to say, what qualifications do you hear people touting in support of their candidate other than the fact that he’s (half-) black and an admittedly extraordinary orator? What policy matters do you hear them bandying about other than the offensively vague bromides of "change" and "hope"?
If people would stop endowing Barack Obama with superhuman qualities I might possibly like him better, but as it stands, to me he's just some puffed up politician with way more disturbing personal associations than most, and fewer real qualifications.
And now, not only do we have to endure four years of possibly the least patriotic and most socialist president ever, but (maybe even worse) we have to contend with his legions of smug, self-righteous, self-satisfied, condescendingly loathsome supporters. Like we should be grateful that now that America has voted for a president who enjoys their approval they can welcome her back into the fold. Well bugger off is what I say (although to those of you not reading this over a family computer, I say it in a somewhat more profane fashion). People all over the world loved Bill Clinton (many even right there in the Oval Office under his desk), and where did it get us? 9/11 and a slew of attacks at home and abroad from which we were in a weaker shape to defend, thanks largely to his policies.
If you look on right-wing blogs, you will see among all the disappointment the classy sentiment "Country First" - they didn't vote for the man as president but they still pledge him their support. Unsurprisingly, you never heard this from lefties when Bush was elected. Quite the contrary. If half the people who said they would had upped and left to Canada we'd have had to annex Alaska to accommodate them (although familiar as I am now with its current governor, I wouldn’t fancy our chances). Oh yes, that's true love of country for you, a willingness to defend and uphold the West and its freedoms. Those smug, sanctimonious, hypocritical bastards are the same ones posting their inane statuses on Facebook and announcing their "ecstasy" like they've just joined some rotten little cult, which is now that I come to think of it probably a more accurate description of the facts. Like they actually give a damn about their country and its values. Oh yes, I'm bitter. Call me in four years and maybe I'll be over it.
As a person of the world, I wrestle with these weighty questions but I just can’t seem to get it. I mean to say, what qualifications do you hear people touting in support of their candidate other than the fact that he’s (half-) black and an admittedly extraordinary orator? What policy matters do you hear them bandying about other than the offensively vague bromides of "change" and "hope"?
If people would stop endowing Barack Obama with superhuman qualities I might possibly like him better, but as it stands, to me he's just some puffed up politician with way more disturbing personal associations than most, and fewer real qualifications.
And now, not only do we have to endure four years of possibly the least patriotic and most socialist president ever, but (maybe even worse) we have to contend with his legions of smug, self-righteous, self-satisfied, condescendingly loathsome supporters. Like we should be grateful that now that America has voted for a president who enjoys their approval they can welcome her back into the fold. Well bugger off is what I say (although to those of you not reading this over a family computer, I say it in a somewhat more profane fashion). People all over the world loved Bill Clinton (many even right there in the Oval Office under his desk), and where did it get us? 9/11 and a slew of attacks at home and abroad from which we were in a weaker shape to defend, thanks largely to his policies.
If you look on right-wing blogs, you will see among all the disappointment the classy sentiment "Country First" - they didn't vote for the man as president but they still pledge him their support. Unsurprisingly, you never heard this from lefties when Bush was elected. Quite the contrary. If half the people who said they would had upped and left to Canada we'd have had to annex Alaska to accommodate them (although familiar as I am now with its current governor, I wouldn’t fancy our chances). Oh yes, that's true love of country for you, a willingness to defend and uphold the West and its freedoms. Those smug, sanctimonious, hypocritical bastards are the same ones posting their inane statuses on Facebook and announcing their "ecstasy" like they've just joined some rotten little cult, which is now that I come to think of it probably a more accurate description of the facts. Like they actually give a damn about their country and its values. Oh yes, I'm bitter. Call me in four years and maybe I'll be over it.
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