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Anne Frank

David Nollmeyer Flagstaff AZ 5-2008

Barack Obama arrival to the near pinnacle of American politics has occurred by following a yellow brick road which mistakenly portrays him as the wizard. Vice president candidate Joseph Biden has honed an insider track after a youthful victor some thirty years past in the Senate.

All the candidates are strawmen for cultural and financial interests. Today is the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream Speech. Barack Obama’s aloofness will work well in the pop media cum op-ed for profit political market. It will not last the test of time as virtuoso craft as a Bach or perhaps a Beethoven. The fault of the Romantics was that they believed that they were producing the art that would endure forever. Much of their legacy is still standing. However their notions and bombast has not resounded through experience.

Obama’s is not bombastic. Intellectualizing every detail and opportunity only reveals the folly of mortality.

Obama’s Achilles’ Heal is Reality. The strawmen will lack substance against the chemical scorched earth of his political emergence. Biden’s home state Delaware, as well as McCain’s Arizona are heavily damaged. Barack Obama’s easy likeability is poor match for a gallows humour and the luck that only comes only with a ghost of a chance.

(I write from Westwood, California.)

Art must be traded for concrete reality in the civilized world of law and order that is thrown asunder the campaign bus.

Barack Obama must recognize that the interests who anointed him as messiah or Martin Luther King’s successor are his enemies. They are just clowns awaiting their next paycheck.

This is the political shrewdness that survives the cheerleading, backslapping, and tribal cannibalism of the zeitgeist.