THE CHANGE ELECTION?
By
Dr. W.R. Marshall, Ph.D
April 27, 2008
NewsWithViews.com
Something better change soon, because I am bored.
Bored.
Bored.
Bored.
I’m trying to remember a time when this campaign wasn’t going on. Back to the halcyon days when Bush and Cheney were lying to everyone and running the country into the ground for their own profit. I’m pretty sure that’s still happening, but with the Democratic race for the nomination droning on and on and on and on and on and on…sorry.
Has anything of substance changed since Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton announced their intention to run for the presidency? Yet there they are, still talking and talking and talking and talking...
There was an outside chance (way outside) that if Hillary lost Pennsylvania she’d have to pack it in – no such luck.
Her victory there makes it even more tedious. For the last six weeks she hasn’t even bothered talking about the nation. Instead, she decided to give McCain a hand and give him an Obama character assassination list that reads like something Karl Rove wrote during a drunken card game with Cheney and Lucifer. Now Grampa John has the green light to say all the things he might not have said, but Hillary said ‘em first.
That is if we make it to November. What if time stops and we’re all stuck here watching the most groundbreaking election in American history become an 8th Grade pissin’ contest?
Six weeks is a long campaign in England. In Canada campaigns can be as short as thirty six days. Obama and Clinton started running when Lincoln was sleeping in his own bedroom.
It’s not just that they’re running, it’s that we are constantly reminded they’re running. No news, no new information, just endless announcements that the same people are still running for same office saying the same stuff.
I know they’re running, and I’ve known it for more than a year – a freakin’ year! Giraffes meet, date, get married, and have baby giraffes in less time. It took less time to put up and rent space in the Empire State Building. Britney Spears got married, had kids, got divorced, lost her kids, went insane, and got a job on a sitcom in less time.
Then, as a big exclamation point to this endless change election, and to prove to all of us changifying voters, just how changerrific this eternal struggle between Obama and Clinton is, each candidates’ chief strategist appeared on TV to clarify their changeology. What was most remarkable about these two gentlemen, what was unique about these two agents of changation was…nothing.
Here we are at the crossroads of Transfigure and Sift, witnesses all to this historic moment in our history when a black man and woman have a legitimate chance (well, had) to gain the presidency, and who’s mapping the course for the “Here Comes Something New Express” – David Axelrod and Geoff Garin, a couple of middle-aged white guys.
I’ve got nothing against middle aged white guys. Every leader we’ve ever had has been a slight variation on middle-aged white guy. But, and I don’t mean to go all academic here, how can anyone be oblivious to the obvious semiotic of trotting out “chief strategists” who look nothing like the candidates they strategize for and, from a distance, exactly like the dopes who runs the country now, and like every other GUY who’s run the country.
Now this…this thing goes on until at least June. (And I mean at least. Does anyone believe the Clintons aren’t taking this to the floor of the convention in August? If you think this is going to end before then, you don’t know a blue dress when you see one.)
The only bright spot is all this is for the middle-aged white guys. Hillary’s megalomania (it is contagious!) puts John McCain is one step closer to the White House.
This is supposed to be the most important election in decades. This is the election that’s supposed to ‘turn the page’ and usher in a new era in American politics…the era of the really old white guy.
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