Time, 7 February 2008: We are the ones we've been waiting for," Barack Obama said in yet another memorable election-night speech on Super-Confusing Tuesday. "We are the change that we seek." Waiting to hear what Obama has to say — win, lose or tie — has become the most anticipated event of any given primary night. The man's use of pronouns (never I), of inspirational language and of poetic meter — "WE are the CHANGE that we SEEK" — is unprecedented in recent memory. Yes, Ronald Reagan could give great set-piece speeches on grand occasions, and so could John F. Kennedy, but Obama's ability to toss one off, different each week, is simply breathtaking. His New Hampshire concession speech, with the refrain "Yes, We Can," was turned into a brilliant music video featuring an array of young, hip, talented and beautiful celebrities. The video, stark in black-and-white, raised an existential question for Democrats: How can you not be moved by this? How can you vote against the future?And yet there was something just a wee bit creepy about the mass messianism — "We are the ones we've been waiting for" — of the Super Tuesday speech and the recent turn of the Obama campaign. "This time can be different because this campaign for the presidency of the United States of America is different. It's different not because of me. It's different because of you." That is not just maddeningly vague but also disingenuous: the campaign is entirely about Obama and his ability to inspire. Rather than focusing on any specific issue or cause — other than an amorphous desire for change — the message is becoming dangerously self-referential. The Obama campaign all too often is about how wonderful the Obama campaign is.
Ha ha ha. . .Media is discovering it has created a messianic monster in this Obama *character*:
And yet there was something just a wee bit creepy about the mass messianism. . .
Media has given Obama a free pass for months, now, refusing to expose his hollow campaign. . .they have enabled his messianism by reinforcing his self-proclamation that he is the agent for *change.*
Obama cannot be an authentic agent for *change* because he is not an authentic person. . .he is a *character*. . .he has assumed a role. . .in point of fact, he bears a striking resemblance to a particular fictional character: Senator Charles Palantine of Taxi Driver.
Our Obama character says: We are the ones we've been waiting for. . .
The Palantine character says: We are the people. . .
Ha ha ha. . .where is Travis Bickle, when you need him?
Anyway, what, exactly, is this Obama person going to change? Nobody knows. Media never asks. He anointed himself as the Spirit of Hope and Change, and Media preached it endlessly to the masses.
Now, a few in Media, begin to ask what this character is all about. . .too late. . .too late. . .the spell has been cast.
The key to understanding Obama’s *inspirational language,* which enchants a growing segment of the uncritical Amerikan sheeple, is knowing its origin lies in Obama’s own magickal thinking.
As we have detailed before, Obama, neither black nor white, a product of multiple fathers and cultures, has no solid core identity. . .he is a Zero. . .an empty space, waiting to be filled. . .therefore, he can be all things to all people. . .he speaks of himself as *we* because there is no single Obama, there is no *I*. . .his identity is shaped by those around him. . .he becomes the crowd. . .he merges with the crowd.
The magickal thinker believes in the interconnectedness of all things through special *powers* that transcend *physical reality*. . .symbols, or in the case of Obama, symbolic language (*hope* and *change*) has this *special power* to connect us. . .the magickal thinker believes there is an actual power or energy created by the bonding of symbol which can alter *physical reality.*
Thus, such a one as Obama can never articulate a specific plan for *change* because of his constant need to be at one with the crowd, with the masses. . .
The rich, the poor, the urban, the rural, the blacks, whites, browns and yellows, the literate, the illiterate, etc., etc., all want different *change*. . .
For Obama to adopt a genuine policy, a genuine course of action, he would have to offend portions of the masses. . .the symbol of *hope* becomes broken once the referent has been exposed. . .some would then turn away from Obama, and walk with him no more.
Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. . .These things said He in the synagogue, as He taught in Capernaum. Many therefore of His disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples murmured at it, He said unto them, Doth this offend you?. . .From that time many of His disciples went back, and walked no more with Him.
The hollow man, the Zero whose own identity depends on universal appeal, cannot risk alienating segments of the masses. . .if whites fall away, or the rural fall away, or the rich fall away, then parts of Obama himself fall away, also. . .his *we* becomes smaller. . .his confidence in his own *we-ness* is shaken. . .
Obama could never truly defend any principle or policy that did not have mass appeal. . .he could never take a truly divisive stand on immigration, for example, for whatever group felt victimized (whether it be poor brown skins or the paranoid white petit-bourgeoisie) would offer organized resistance. . .Obama’s fragile *we* psyche would crack. . .he would instantly offer some sort of appeasement (loftily labeled *democratic compromise*) to whatever special interest he had offended. . .Amerika would be forced to endure schizocracy, the rule by the schizophrenic. . .
Should Obama gain the Presidency, his magickal thinking would be massively assaulted by the concrete demands of the Office. . .it's one thing to play act on the campaign trail, it's quite another to actually have to become a functioning President. . .
Should Obama gain the Presidency, I make it even money he would have to resign from office due to mental incapacitation. . .
