Posted on 11/06/2008 9:43:29 PM PST by JennysCool
I finally put my finger on something that's been bugging me all day long -- a day when the mainstream media has been trying its darndest to get the sheeple all worked up over Barack Obama choosing retread Democrat party blowhard Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff, and endeavoring to interest the crowd in unnamed John McCain staffers dishing the dirt over Sarah Palin.
Two days after a "monumental" Presidential election -- this is the news?
And that's when it hit me: the "news" is all done. At least any news that will energize Americans to lavish the sort of attention on an election aftermath that they usually have in the past.
"But," I can hear you emoting, "we've just by God elected the first African American President of the United States!"
Well, yes we have. And that's the thing. America went and made history. Again. We tend to do that a lot.
But it was getting the African American elected that was the point. Like a long and fitfully engrossing TV mini-series, we all endured a ridiculously tedious months-long drama, with oftimes ludicrous twists and turns, and when it was all over, the unprecedented election of a person of color was the outcome.
After which we spent the remainder of our election night -- which was much shorter and more boring than anyone could have possibly anticipated -- saying things like, "Well, er, congratulations, America," and "I'm going to bed."
American attention spans are notoriously short, so here it is -- two days after what the media told us was a mind-bogglingly historic election -- and the big monolithic "national moment" seems to have about as much staying power around the water cooler as the last episode of "The Sopranos" -- gabbed about for a couple of days, and then slipped into the back of the mind while more prosaic concerns -- like staying afloat in the leaking economic lifeboat -- return to their positions of prominence.
In some respects -- maybe most respects -- Barack Obama has already gone and jumped the shark. Sweeps Week is over, to use another TV analogy. The whole 2008 election was pretty much like the classic "Who Shot J.R.?" arc on "Dallas." For months, everybody excitedly guessed at the outcome and the nefarious assailant, and when we found out it was just the fetching Mary Frances Crosby, we shrugged our collective shoulders and moved on.
Which is why we have Palin bashers and -- good God! -- Rahm Emanuel on the front page 48 hours after the event to end all events. The climax really was an anti-climax. Sure, we have the first (in reality -- TV and the movies have done it many times before) African-American President. "That's cool," we say, watching as the shark disappears over the horizon.
The pundits have made a huge drama-queen deal over this somehow being a "triumph over racism," but it's really only the '60s-worshipping pundits and provocateurs who thought this was a racist nation in the first place, anyway. Most Americans long ago knew it was not.
Beyond us, then, lies the normal, turgid government work, just like always. The incoming President may not look like "the guys on the dollar bills," and that's interesting enough, I suppose. But, as always, we're all way more interested in the dollar bills than we are in the President.
Do us all a favor. Keep the change.
A kick-ass editorial!
Really nice vanity Jenny - sorry I missed that you had written it in my concern over Biden’s welfare.... ;^)
It’s a 60’s revival, with a dusting of 70’s has beens and out of work 80’s reprobates. It’s called Change.
We have to focus of whats left of US and organize a massive conservative movement. A movement that is VERY aggressive
Thanks for posting this - I think you are right. There is a kind of post-partum depression feeling going around.
Some people are realizing that the market was adjusting to the Socialism and taxes he is bringing. Fleeing like the falling of the Twin Towers.
Pray for W, Gov Palin and Our Troops
Mind if I re-post this in my local small town South Carolina newspaper..
This election more than anything has proved that racism still does exist but not so much on the side of the white’s this time. The pink elephant in the room that so many won’t mention is the fact that raced trumped all things this election. It was race and Bush which were the platforms of Obama’s candidacy. When AA’s vote 50/50 for each party that’s when racism is truly gone. As the Belgians noted - if it had gone 50/50 rather than 95/5 McCain would have one. But again, unlike MLK, they vote based on the color of one’s skin and not the content of one’s character. I think that’s what made me so angry this entire election.
That was great. So I suppose no one enjoyed the “Climax”?
You will notice there wasn't a mad rush by the MSM with calls for the historic necessity of an African-American president when Keyes ran as a conservative Republican in 1996 or earlier in the year. He should write in and complain to MSNBC, CNN, and The New York Times.
That’s what I thought, but it transpires that I’m drinking again tonight.
I would add that the WAY he won is perhaps the most important thing of all. He became a mirage type figure that allowed everyone to make him what they THEMSELVES wanted him to be.
He was both liberal and conservatve, both black and white, cool and boring, smart and hip, young and wise....to his voters.
But the problem is, it is a fantastic way to get elected, but an almost impossible feat to maintain.
SOMEONE will be disillusioned, and he will not have Clinton’s luck of having a Perot to bail him out.
wow great vanity and spot on!
The second half of the season features: Is he black ENOUGH and when will we get our REAL (not half white) President?
one = won - it’s late here - lol!
Indeed. Instead of coming out with some kind of A-Team of a cabinet, he names a hyper-partisan to his White House. Extremely bad followup. One would think he’d do the cheesy thing, but of course what the media and most of America would eat up, and head on down to Atlanta to visit the King Memorial. Or perhaps to Memphis.
Then again, I think his ego is too big to regard King as legendary. He’s bigger than MLK! He’s the first black president.
This guy is bad news. You know you’re going to be hearing the following from current Obama cultists in the future: “I was for change, but not this...”
Who are the late night comedians going to make fun of now?
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