The Fix | News and reviews you can use, peruse and abuse

The Heel

by Marion Kind | published Mar 14 at 11:15 am | filed under Columns, The Heel | 5 comments

Obama and Generation Shrug

As the world holds its collective breath at the prospect of America FINALLY pulling its head out of its ass, the oil-industrial complex wakes up and digs in its heels. Now Barrack Hussein Kumbaya Adolf Huggy-Bear Media-Darling Obama, this “untried” politician, having miraculously pulled ahead, must take on the Clintons, the neo-cons, the Religious Right and their media operatives all at once.

I am a cynic, and I realize Obama is a professional politician vying to run a vast empire. But the time is long overdue for Generation Shrug to grow up. Oil wars? Shrug. A lawless President? Shrug. Stolen elections? Shrug. Oil barons looting the Treasury? Shrug. Vice President running amok? Shrug. The list goes on and on.

Mrs. Clinton is a hard worker? Who gives a shit? Is she going to win folks seats in Congress and the Senate? No. The former presumed Democratic candidate has been silent while the neo-cons gobbled up this country and crapped on the world. This country has a chance, maybe one chance (and an undeserved one at that) to stop its slide into dictatorship and disaster–DISASTER. The next month will see the Clintonistas, the neo-cons, the Christo-Fascists, and the media tie Obama to the whipping post. He will probably bear it gracefully, but will his candidacy survive? The tone of politics in America can change if we stop acting like gullible rubes.

The people who are attacking and will continue to attack Obama are not the guys at the water cooler or sitting on the next barstool. They are elite, highly paid professionals representing vast constituencies. When they act like pigs it is because they are allowed to act like pigs and frankly, as our representatives, they make pigs of us all. They are professionals and must be forced to act as such. When challenged at work are you and I allowed to lie, smear and whine? To shift the blame, attack people’s patriotism and break rules? Are we allowed to slander? To send company security to take out our enemies and spy on fellow employees? When called to account, are we allowed to act like outraged martyrs?

I know Obama isn’t Dr. King. He ain’t Jesus. But he isn’t an empty suit either. We are battling some very dark forces indeed. McCain is another Nixon waiting to happen. Hillary Clinton, while smart, hard working and well meaning, is a thumb in the eye, dirty political infighter and a fifty-one-percenter to the core. Barack Obama is attempting to point this bloated, addled, apathetic, war mongering herd to higher ground. You can take a chance, or you can shrug and sink back into the pigsty, knowing in your bones that this leads to a broken economy, more military disasters and more piggishness. Kumbaya my ass!

5 comments

tagged as politics, obama and clinton

Comments

tibii said:

posted on Mar 14 at 11:38 am

Hmmm, if only I could believe you that any politician is an alternative to another politician.

WebOfDistress said:

posted on Mar 15 at 5:42 am

The only realistic way anything in this country will change is, regardless who we vote for, get everybody out all at once.. new Senate, new House, no people who have ever been in the House or Senate, nobody even related to anyone who has been in office in the last 40 years. Mostly, nobody who wants to be in politics! We don't need politicians now, we need common sense, and some Leaders, and I mean LEADERS. People who walk their talk, live respectfully, and are open-minded and use consideration as a tool, not a platform. Any trained monkey can shake hands and kiss babies, hell, a dog can even do that... but I'd vote for a dog or a monkey, before any pro politician. It would be nice to have a president Americans could be proud of. No buffoon, idiot, carouser, just a normal Joe who has the brains and restraint to act with some dignity even. Enough with the BUFFOONERY! Do you think Obama can give us that.. a president to be proud of?

tibii said:

posted on Mar 15 at 5:59 am

Everybody, including me and you, everybody, would find it difficult to resist the temptation REALLY BIG MONEY offers for any politician who will behave obediently. It can be observed very nicely again and again and again. Like in Germany, where permeability is somewhat bigger than in the States, we had Green party politicians, e.g. a secretary of State who when he was young and a rebel student around 1970 had street fights with the state power, and so called Left party guys in some regional governments, and even a chancellor (comparable to the US president) who once had been a young socialist, and nearly all of them did what big money expected them to do. Same can be said about union bosses, media people etc. I don't believe it will make any change if the whole political class will be substituted by whoever. Even if they were substituted by only rock-, punk- and hip hop musicians, nothing would change. Because, again, who would resist the temptation? I think it's naive to place one's hopes on anyone. And leaders, even if they are really good leaders? I can do without them.

bossbass said:

posted on Mar 17 at 12:10 am

With the record turnout of voters everywhere at caucuses and primaries so far, it seems like many here are not shrugging about this one.

A fun Obama video -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjyTFx6dlZg

Paul Nye said:

posted on Mar 17 at 8:06 pm

Obama is popular with the 20 & 30- somethings because he looks and acts "cool," he's got a "cool" name and he can talk "cool," like in a like motivating and like encouraging way, like. This whole "Change" thing is lame and naive. It's already been done in another generation - only then it was with substance. Obama has no idea what he's getting into. Yet we are about to elect a guy president of the most powerful nation in the world who has served 2 years in the Senate and was a community activist. God help us.