I’ve been lamenting since about the second week of January that 2008 has been the worst year, evah!
O, O, Obama, how I wish the next year will be one of the best. As for tiny little dots, what once started out as a general art/culture blog that has grown into a political beast, the future is a bit cloudy. Obviously, the fight against BushCo is over and I’ve been trying to clear some brain space out for the rest of my life, so, posting has been light and light hearted. What will come out of me and spill out here in the future – at least in terms of an overall theme – is a mystery to me. I’m hoping to get back to the original intent, but my political lobe has grown into a well tuned fiddle for the madness that is this world, so, who knows.?
The choice of anti-choice Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at Obama’s Inauguration has shot a big middle finger at a large cross section of progressives and I have to admit it’s a puzzling dissappointment. As of now he is dutifully paying a price out there in the blogosphere.
But this is not Bush the Idiot Prince, we’re talking about Obama. So there is a “why”. Has to be. The obvious, news bite in 8 words or less, is the “give me bipartisanship or give me death”. But this is too simple to answer the “why?”. So let’s examine some scenarios…
How does it play from the other side? Imagine you’re a conservative evangelical,…
OK, bad idea. Imagine you’re gourd. A dried, thick necked, wide waisted, gourd filled only with seed fragments. Better, yes?… and your main guy, is about to suck up to Obama big time. Gourd not happy. Warren looses some gourds here.
Another scenario – because most gourds are so thick even glaring betrayal cannot penetrate and maybe Warren doesn’t lose many Gourds, after all a gourd spun around looks exactly the same- anyway, another is, a year from now an issue arrises and Warren is now in a position to choose between tea in the Rose Garden or attacking Obama. Most likely this slimy guy will walk a fine line between the two and thus marginalizing himself further.
I’ve said before what makes the Democrat party what it is is it’s tolerance of multiple thoughts. Contrary to this, the Republicans, to their almost unwitting benefit, is capable of only one thought at a time and thus vote as a solid block time after time. Obama could be trying to fragment the Republicans, a daunting task, but imagine a fractured Republican party, for one it certainly lowers the 60 threshold to something attainable which he will need. We as progressives will need. To get shit done.
It would be great to know exactly what he’s up to, but the very act of explanation exposes any potential plot.
Yes it comes at the expense of the average progressives’ skin thickness, but no matter how raking the pain, it’s relatively cost free if the big picture is the masterpiece that it might be.
“Do you have to be a Medici or a Rockefeller to collect art?
Not according to Herbert and Dorothy Vogel. This documentary film tells the extraordinary story of Herb, a postal clerk, and Dorothy, a librarian – an ordinary couple of modest means who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history.”
