Gifted agitprop, two-sided: the pounding paranoid attack side on the strangely leaderless Democrats, and the sentimental resurrection side with the usefully non-Washington GOP governors. What strikes me most is that there is no center to the Democratic camp (POTUS is another face) and there is no dominating A-team to the Republican camp. This is team play without much attention to who is POTUS, who is Speaker, what state is led by what governor. I see Barbour, Christie, McDonald, Pawlenty, Jindal. Did I see Daniels? Of course, there is Reagan. This is not Gilbert and Sullivan. Closer to neo-Puccini. "Butterfly." (Below)
Interesting question: Is Obama our leader? Is he the leader of the Dems even? Undoubtedly so. What happens when the led mutiny? Who is the leader of the mutineers? Unknown. No one has emerged so far to lead the opposition. It is impossible for Obama to isolate the opposition. The opposition is so broad, it defies focus. They can’t put us all in jail.
Republicans know what’s in store for them should a leader emerge. Rather, the would-be emerging leader knows. Perhaps that is why he is still lurking in the shadows. Silent. All there is is the roar of the crowd, chanting in unison, “We want our country back!”
Obama is flailing, blindly striking out without hitting his target. Yet he succeeds. He runs the machine. It is we who have put him in the driver’s seat. It’s dangerous to remove him now – while the bus is barreling down the proverbial highway at breakneck speed. It’s worked in the movies. Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock have done it. But we’re still smart enough to know that it doesn’t really work in 3-D. The only one who can do it hasn’t been lowered onto the bus yet (presumably from a helicopter). That’s because nobody has come forward and said, “I can do it” – wrest the steering wheel away from the suicidal driver.
The bus is going full tilt. It’s approaching the washed out bridge. What’s yellow and black and screams? Will somebody take the wheel!? Anybody?
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Puccini? Too tuneful. How about Philip Glass, with his keylessness and annoying repetitions, like a stuck record?