Posted by
Elderscapes on Saturday, September 27, 2008 4:28:18 PM
Obama's 60's pessimism was depressingly obvious last night.
I know. I was there.
His subtle anger, dissatisfaction, resentment toward America --- how despised and disrespected is his vision of America, both abroad and at home .... following the peregrine dreams of his father -- himself a product of the same "system" which his father had used ... ahhhhhh, the dreams of his father -- coming to America -- not to seek freedom, but to obtain an education and return to Africa .... deserting his family, leaving behind a wake of women and children to be tended by "the system" while he pursued a distant and unfulfilled dream of socialism.
Obama's total perspective is that of the 60's activists with whom he has surrounded himself -- a young man identifying with the hate and displaced visions of his socialist mentors .... sacrificing himself to bear the visage of poverty and depression -- assuming the role of saviour to the downtrodden, immersing himself in the poor-me plague of despondency --- before mysteriously, even miraculously rising above the system to feed on it .... using the system to advance his quest for power, control, self-fulfillment: just as his father had done.
There is much to be said about Obama and his identity with the social-activist mantle he bears -- almost as a cross -- a man self-appointed to save us from ourselves by turning us against ourselves.
... a page from the 60's ....
The Man Obama Calls Father :
If there is a mystery at the heart of Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father, one thing is not left a mystery, the fact that Barack Obama organized his life on the ideals given to him by his Kenyan father.
Obama tells us, "All of my life, I carried a single image of my father, one that I .. tried to take as my own." (p. 220)
And what was that image? It was "the father of my dreams, the man in
my mother's stories, full of high-blown ideals .." (p. 278)
What is more, Obama tells us that, "It was into my father's image .. that
I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself."
And also that, "I did feel that there was something to prove .. to my father" in his efforts at political organizing. (p. 230)