Musings on being ready to Back Barack...

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Originally written 5/2/2008 11:42 AM

I really am starting to like Barack Obama much more as the campaign and fundraising and jive ass shallow advertising drag on and on. Even though I think B.O. is somewhat automatically corrupted just by having risen this up the “mainstream” he still is I think, the most inspiring of potentially idealistic activist progressive agents for change to emerge in that mainstream American political landscape since Bobby Kennedy was gunned down in `68 just months after MLK was. Time it was and what a time it was- eh?

And I think fears that the same could happen to Barack if he’s elected are real but that isn’t necessarily the way the Right will neutralize him. He could just be a one term blip who is made to look so bad by circumstances along with the same “vast right wing conspiracy” that relentlessly badgered the Clintons even as they were out Reaganing Reagan pretty much their whole eight years of having their chance to turn the tides…

And there is so much they can do to make him look bad. Things like really letting the economy bottom out for the next four years. I mean- really let people suffer. Sure, it’s the Neocons that mismanaged everything to corruptly funnel resources to the Big Boy Cronie Network they work for- but six months into the Democrats being in power it’s going to be them and the Clintons being blamed and Barack will just be the Pawn Prez till the new Neocon annointee emerges.
(maybe not a Bush this time but I say that’s when things really are going to get scary- a charismatic newcomer who actually can pull off a better image than W. and sound like he knows what he’s talking about and that it’s him saying what he’s saying. I mean- if half the country can buy the Neocons agenda with Bush and Cheney quarterbacking their team just think how a next generation Iraq War Hero with West Point or The Citadel credentials could inspire the Great American People.)

Or maybe it won’t be a real Iraq War Hero but another actor. I’m thinking Chuck Norris now. Or what about a repackaged Newt Gingrich. He’ll come out all critical of the Bushies and trumpet the great accomplishments of his “Contract on Americans” and invoke the Saint Hood of Ronnie Ray Guns and low and behold the mainstream media will have him framed as a real life Thomas Jefferson or Tom Paine.

But however this election goes the resources of the wealthiest 1-5% will be mostly focused on seeing that no wealth or resources anywhere in the world can be used or developed for the general wealth, commons, and or well being of local populations or indigenous souls anywhere, anyhow, no way… Like always. And that is going to be a hell a lot for this current bunch (including Barack) of the so called Democratic Party opposition to overcome.

So my point is they may be able to kill the hope he represents better just by making him look ineffectual and not up to making a difference after all and four years from now look out- or, President McCain becomes the New Ray Gun and his VP will be a Dan Quayle or Sonnie Dubya type who becomes the next figurehead down the line while Cheney (and later on down the line his everlasting eternal fully functional virtual reality holigram) keeps doing what the Global Corporate Board `O the Whirl tells him from the Control Panel in his combination Hunting Lodge/ Missile Proof Bunker.