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Far From the Madding Crowd

Posted by T. Thomas on Saturday, July 26, 2008 1:10:36 PM

Interesting that Obama's westward trek through France and England has been a quiet one - almost contemplative as compared to the brouhaha of Germany. That is because long ago Obama and the media realized that he had taken "hope and change" as far as he could with it, solidifying his support among those susceptible to that sort of thing before it dried up on him.

Now, he has to go beyond his base and try to gain support among middle America, most of whom are Baby Boomers and unimpressed by emotional appeals to the wide-eyed and immature. Thus emerged the idea of turning Barack into the Black JFK - appealling to a sacred Baby Boomer icon with the hopes of rekindling the idealism of the 60s. Hence Berlin.

Unfortunately, even Obama's most ardent cheerleaders such as Newsweek's Margaret Carlson, and Time's Joe Klein have ruefully noted the rather ridiculous business of trying to manufacutre the illusion of German frenzy by offering a large crowd of young partying Berliners a free rock concert from their two favorite bands, free beer and sausages, and then Obama's short speech in English. The boisterous half-in-the-bag Berliners would have cheered a side of beef if it had been driven up on stage after all the free music and beer.

It was a sham that the few people of conscience among the spreadeagled press are already noting. The Berlin masquerade was the only point of this desultory trip. The quiet, dignified and formulaic meetings with Nicholas Sarkozy and Gordon Brown are really more indicative of the burgeoning "enthusiam" of the EU.
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Excitement!!!!!!

Posted by T. Thomas on Friday, July 18, 2008 8:37:32 PM
Excitation is interesting because, by definition, it is a state outside the norm. Excitement is generated among both people and atomic particles when a stimulus is applied which causes mass to exceed its normal boundaries of space and time. It cannot endure without the constant application of stimulation and seeks its original state as soon as the irritant is removed.

The news media is the primary exciter at this point, today gushing that Obama's impending European tour, already rife with missteps, is the equivalent to that of a rock star: Justin Timberlake at Madison Square garden but without the great music or dancing. The media is demanding a great deal of Mr. Obama as they seek to maintain the feverish momentum which peaked far earlier than is healthy or sustainable for a mere mortal.

Voting for a United States president is not an act of excitement. The voting booth is one of the most sober and contemplative places on earth. It represents a peak moment of private introspection where each individual searches his heart to decide who best to grant permission to succeed to the most powerful position on Earth. It is a deeply sobering experience for most, and many people make up their minds in that final instant of hesitancy before they mark their ballots. This is not a place where media driven frenzy easily intrudes.

The streets of America were awash with millions of McGovern's frenzied devotees throughout the hot summer of 1972 in demonstrations driven into self-replication by the intense coverage of a media then, as now, determined to drive the party in power from office. The dour, unlikeable and unexciting Richard Nixon took 49 of the 50 states and none of McGovern's supporters saw it coming.

Excitement thrives in the company of others. It gives people camaraderie and validation, but every citizen enters the infinite quiet of the voting booth alone. There, not in the streets or on the television sets of America, is where our elections are ultimately won or lost
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St. Obama's Rainbow Tour

Posted by T. Thomas on Friday, July 18, 2008 7:51:07 PM

"Obama Trip Could Push Rock-Star Persona to New Heights" gushes the headline on Drudge.

There seems to be no end to Obama's hubris which is both feeding and being fed by the fawning sycophants of the media who in their fevered minds have morphed a presidential election into the millennial reconstruction of America's racial history, a way out of a self-imposed and suffocating white guilt that consumes their sense of well-being and disrupts the quiet enjoyment of their collective wealth and privilege. 

However, heed the whispers from history.  First, remember Eva Peron's Rainbow Tour of Europe and how THAT turned out. Secondly remember what comes of the lethal combination of great ideals, self-righteousness, great power, and infinite self-regard.  The vision of Maximillian Robespierre should rise up at the contemplation of this fetid brew and give pause to the few thoughtful among Obama's adoring elites
 
Among the proles of Europe, the hatred of Bush remains strong. However, for some strange reason, the actual voters in both France and Germany fairly recently replaced their anti-Bush leaders with, let's call them, pro-American leaders: Sarkozy and Merkel.

Obama will attract crowds for his little speechies - he always does - but this is very much a PRESS tour. The entire royalty of the American Press travels with him and they, as you well know, have nothing but contempt for the common man. They are there to judge Obama's ability to handle himself with seasoned and powerful world leaders who have already been through the annealing process of bruising elections and emerged triumphant.

As we have seen, Merkel has nicely boxed Obama's big ears, maneouvering him out of his pretentious attempt to turn himself into a 21st Century JFK at the Brandenburg Gate and forcing him to scramble for some other German symbol to stand in front of and preen. So Obama's camp, all apparently ignorant of German symbolism, stupidly substitute the Victory Column (Siegessäule) which celebrates German military aggression against the Danes and the Austrians and which, hilariously, Hitler once placed in front of the damned Reichstag. There are millions of Germans no longer entranced with our bouncing baby Obama after this bonehead move.

He went to Europe to turn himself into John Kennedy. He may come home as Evita.
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