Tuesday, March 2, 2010
The Obama brand
I like to get it out in the air when I'm wrong, so here it is. I liked the idea of Obama. I voted for a third party candidate, but was still intrigued by this promise of "Hope." I guess I was just optimistic for change. He did inherit quite a mess, and I understand that. Anything could be better, right? I will stand by my absolute dislike for Bush since he ran for his first term. And I will also stand by my belief that the wars we are STILL in, for many years to come, were absolutely the wrong choice. I don't think anyone who actually follows the money on these wars will stand behind the absurd notion that this is a "War on Terror" or whatever you would like to call it. I will say the Obama deal is just not working out. I actually feel like I was sold a CD player that only plays DVDs. It looks, sounds and has all the buttons to make it work right, it's just that the final product doesn't do what I wanted it to do. They did a great job of packaging this one. Whoever it is that actually sets these candidates in the position to run have really gotten good at marketing. Why not? We are a consuming machine, it fuels our capitalist society. What better way to make us like someone than to package it like a product that will make our life easier. His election is part of the main reason I don't even pay attention to the crap spewed on the "news" channels. I actually turned on MSNBC the other morning, and they had one of their valley girl "correspondents" reading a Tweet from someone named "DJ JDog" on the activity in Hawaii prior to the enormous tidal wave that hit. Now that's a credible news source there. Corporations keep gaining a stronger grip on our policies and elections, and Obama has only furthered it. He definitely got some help from our "conservative" Supreme Court as well. Don't waste your time watching debates between candidates, they are not really debates. Here's a little history on that if your not hip to how that is run. I'm definitely investing my time in research to the third party candidates the next time around, I've seen that neither side of the aisle looks like it is working...to me at least. Here's what Chris Hedges has to say on Obama. I like Hedges because he just lays it out, and doesn't use a bunch of mumbo jumbo political talk.
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Bub, I love it! Lay it out there buddy. I have never really liked the Obama-nation or notion for that matter. I think he was as good of a pick as any of them, I must confess even the indies. In my unbacked belief I think that in order to get to the national spotlight you have to do some shady business, similar to a hoax of your son getting sent up into the stratosphere in a hot air balloon. Those are our presidential candidates in my opinion. All of 'em. I've lost complete and total faith in the office of the president, no matter what brand you belong to. Maybe someone will come along and play the backers for fools instead of the supporters and nation at large, until that day I believe the US presidency is analogous to a prime minister. I feel like I should put more effort into state and federal representatives and senators, where change can actually be made.
ReplyDeleteI really liked your analogy of the presidential candidate as a marketing package. That was spot on and brilliant. You should market that. :-)
War and Peace - I have it, have never read it, and am scared of its size. I, like you, need to read it if for no other reason that to be able to join the club that can boast that they have read the entirety of War and Peace. It's nice to hear you say that you're enjoying it.
I have started back writing down a few things on Homelessnesses again, thanks to your inspiration.