Shocking hints and allegations, real attention grabbers, but really attention diverters. The real story is the institutionalized complex of media, academia, business, politics, and foreign intrigue we call liberalism and the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. This complex is a veritable Typhon, the fearsome many-headed monster of Greek mythology. The subject of this thread is only one of those heads. Different head, same monster. But because popular politics requires focus on one person at a time, focus on. We have a titillating diversion, a good scandal, a real safety valve blowing off steam lest a pressure for real thinking builds up. But if politics is local, it's also personal, a human face on politics is indispensable in our system. Let's just not forget Typhon had many heads, coiling tails, wings, and eyes (Wikipedia has a great description:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhon if you're interested). Doesn't that sound just like what we are faced with? Innumerable and constant attacks on our Constitution and country popping up everywhere - net-neutrality, fairness doctrine, hate-speech laws, TARP/bailouts/takeovers, an anti-2nd-A group here, pro-choice there, glb advocate there, politician pops up in support of ... , TV talking head says, push-poll about this/that, news story, legal expert from a prestigious university, spin-meister, some foreign leader, new/old political face takes stage center, etc etc. Different head, same monster. If monster seems like a strong word, it is. We are faced with a serious, and widespread, attempt by a huge number of people in (and out) of this country to change the world for what we think to be the worse.
That world change for the worse - let's see, the world, the flesh, and the ... We wrestle not against flesh and blood but spiritual powers in high places. Our weapons are not carnal but spiritual ... I seem to remember that John Adams (I think) said something along the line that the real American Revolution took place long before 1776, fought and won in the hearts and minds of the people by generations of Gospel preachers. Maybe that's why we were told our form of government is suitable only for a religious and moral people.
The Typhon we face today has for generations spread its gospel in the hearts and minds of the people. So the culture war goes on. But in the nuts and bolts of politics we have to campaign for or against politicians. Somebody has to be the least electable. So the scandals roll on.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/us/politics/18poems.html
The Poetry of Barack Obama
Following are two poems by Barack Obama that were published in the Spring 1981 issue of “Feast,” a 51-page student literary journal that described itself as “a semi-annual journal of short poetry and fiction collected from the Occidental College community.” The journal is no longer published, according to a college spokesman.
POP
Pop takes another shot, neat,
Points out the same amber
Stain on his shorts that I’ve got on mine, and
Makes me smell his smell, coming
From me
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d95_1223958449
Frank Marshall Davis admitted in his private papers that he had secretly authored a hard-core pornographic autobiography called Sex Rebel: Black, published in 1968. The author of the book - a copy of which was been obtained by The ENQUIRER - is listed as “Bob Greene.” Davis later confessed to its authorship after a reader noticed similarities in style and phraseology between that book and Davis’ poetry.
Davis confessed: “I could not truthfully deny that this book, which came out in 1968 as a Greenleaf Classic, was mine.”
The appalling catalog of admitted real-life decadence is laced with perverted sexual activity, bisexuality, rape - and the seduction of children.
“Davis’ admission he wrote this disturbing book exposes Obama’s mentor as living a secret double life - and as a sexual pervert,” disclosed a source.