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.