“It is time again for a new generation of leadership,” Mr. Kennedy said, speaking over a crowd of cheering supporters here at American University. “It is time now for Barack Obama.”It is time now for Barack Obama? What, is he a Snickers bar? Feed your hunger, dudes.
Meanwhile, check out the visuals:
Even if we take Change and Belief in the post-linguistic, Singularity-Now, realm-of-pure-forms spirit in which it is apparently meant by the Obama campaign, the movie-trailer tagline that Nothing is the Same because Everything is Different, then we are still left with the specter of three members of the political dynasty most representative of the Democratic Party brand qua brand pimping soft revolution.
But let me digress. There is a genre of film and literature, ostensibly anti-clerical, and yet imbued with the vain spirit of crass ecumenicalism. A movie like Kevin Smith's Dogma is a good example. It sets itself up as a vicious satire of religious belief. God is Alanis Morisette. Angels are murderous sociopaths. The Church, in the form of Cardinal George Carlin, is a marketing gimic. Yet the film ends not in irreverence but in deadly earnest bromiditude. "It isn't important what you believe. It's only important that you believe." This, in fact, is the animating spirit of American religiousity in general in our currently occuring Greatest Ever Awakening, despite the persistent anger at fags and abortions. The specific content of belief--Faith, as our believers would have it--is finally incidental to the edifying fact of supercategorical belief. I believe that the Moon is the view-foreshortened penis head of an interstellar giant. Well, IOZ, it isn't important what you believe. It's only important that you believe.
This is clearly nonsense. The content of belief is the fundament of belief. The old bastards who hammered out the Nicene Creed weren't practicing for high-school forensics. Anyway, the Obama campaign proposes that there is content to belief. They believe in change. And what is change? It's what they believe it. They approach tautology at Warp 9 and slingshot through its vast gravity into the past. Spock saves a whale. Kirk gets the girl. "Duncan Hunter, in the spirit of his hero Salvador Dali, promises the immediate complete random change of everything, all at once. If elected, I will melt all the clocks and turn earth's atmosphere into a solid." A clock strikes thirteen. "It rains."
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Chang. We all need it sometimes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8nU-q5YPRQ
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I believe that the Moon is the view-foreshortened penis head of an interstellar giant.
Can I come to church with you on Sunday? This sounds promising.
Kirk didn't get THAT girl.
You said "fundament."
IOZ, your traitorous jihadosexual homomaoism has not gone unnoticed by those of us keeping tabs on followers of Ron-Paul Nader. Everybody who's a true American knows that "Change" is what the Man in the Street is talking about: you know, the dude on the corner, with lice in his eyebrows and his toes sticking out of their half-sneaker covers, who's entreating you, "Big guy-big guy-big guy! Sparealilchangesoicangesompint'eat? Quarter-quarter-quarter!" That American, the one who Barack and the Kennedys are PROUD to....oh, sorry.
says youz!
believe whatever the fuck you want, just leave me the fuck alone. oh wait, this is politics...they will actually come and bother me.
ok. I'm not voting for Obama because he is black. for the record.
I'm not voting for anything unless it blinks and smiles and lights up occasionally and spits out coins.
I want all the happy parts and feelings that religion gets you without all the dogma and rules and shit, yo, like thinking. I've got things to do, people to see, I don't got time for all of that!
what this country needs now is a big ole dose of religious self-mortification. `snap us right back into reality. the fantasy will dissolve real quick! fuck God, this shit hurts!
we need to fail until it hurts, and we need not be shielded from the pain.
I don't enjoy the pain of being and existence, but I sure do miss it when it's gone.
fuck, I'd be happy with a national tendinitis; obesity ain't all that difficult. show me that you're trying , people!
Drat. I was looking forward to voting for Chang.
Eternal truths to provide guiding principles, even in a Universe of constant flux, where the 10,000 things (metaphorically speaking) come into being, grow, flourish, decline, and pass away:
1)This is the future. You got to live it, or live with it.
2)Matter is energy. In the universe there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person's soul. However, this soul does not exist ab initio as orthodox Christianity teaches, but has to be brought into existence through a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved due to man's unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.
mistah charley, ph.d.: You're not allowed to visit the Time Cube site anymore.
There are now multiple Time Cube sites? Goody! Off to Google!
Wasn't it Eisenhower who said it didn't matter what your religion one as long as you had one? I miss a President that warned of the Military-Industrial-Congressional complex.
I'm with razib though, on some level all people believe the same thing. Because they're idiots.
And so we repeat for the umteen millionth time: "Here's to the new boss, same as the old boss."
Who better to proclaim the imminent newness and change of obama...than the 40-yr congressional fixture.
i hope we're sufficiently high-brow here to appreciate my submission for barak's new slogan:
"baroque 2008--what we've been saying, only in a different color."
On the day that Kennedy made his speech endorsing Obama, Chris Matthews said on Hardball that it was like "King Arthur returning from the Crusades to rescue Robin Hood."
He liked this formulation so much that he repeated it later in the show.
He didn't say who Robin Hood would need to be rescued from. Maybe the Orcs. Or possibly Darth Vader.
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