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• Monday, November 24, 2008 11:42 AM

  QUID QUO PROBAMA

  You are all about to find out what happens when you vote vanity over sanity. And I don't at all mean McCain.

  For all of you who thought that when Obama made all those campaign promises to you, he meant any single one of them --Welcome to Politics 101.

  Whatever your opinion of how Obama got where he now is- the baseline reality is that he didn't get there without every possible variation on Quid Quo Pro.

  What you are about to find out is that Obama IS the Gordian Knot. NOT the guy who untied it.

  Obama owes lots and lots to lots and lots of string-pullers about to reel him in over the next four years. You who fell for exalting the silliest of inconsequential priorities over what really mattered are going to find out how low any of your expectations are on Obama's list.

  Obama has so far picked his way thorough two camps.

  Just remember after slagging Clinton all the way through the campaign and rubbing both their noses in it, that the only reliable choices Obama has made so far are nearly all from Clinton's administration.

  Likely meaning if Obama had been enough of an American to place patriotism before narcissism when he morally should, we'd have pretty much those same people in place. And a far more reassuringly better president in time of crisis. Make that PAIR of presidents.

  Only in America could we reject two proven geniuses in favor of at best one half of a shiny new hologram. I'm not really a president, but I look good on TV. Maybe you could turn the Oval Office into a Holiday Inn Express.

  And we'd be minus the other camp--- Chicago Machine Politicians. One reason I could never remotely support Obama is early on having taken a college course on the History of Chicago. Seen up way too close and daily for a seminal semester, it is, and always was, even more putrid a rotten pathology of a self-interest fiefdom than you could ever want to consider. And Obama is a classic every dot connected product of its mentality. What little experience he has actually had is all tainted by it.

  If you aren't part of the solution-- you are about to see what happens when you deliberately choose to be led by part of the problem.

  I too well remember that the instructor used to continually point out if we learned nothing else from this course, we'd learn the truest meaning of Quid Quo Pro.

  Little did he know how horribly true his prediction would bear out.

  I didn't think it would be possible for more of an excrescence than Karl Rove to appear on the political scene until I started reading more about David Axelrod.

  All we've done is make it possible to prove that folly is as much to be expected from the Left for the next four years as we've seen it for eight endless years on the Right.

  I never thought George Bush would be useful for anything. But what he's provided for me is the realization that how I got through the past eight years is going to have to be whatever portion of the next four years I'll be around for.

  All I've got to say is God bless the guy who invented the remote. We all owe him the greatest debt and he should be given a special Nobel for Maintaining Sanity.

  And that Obama will primarily be useful for me to be able to finally break my news habit. I am indebted to him for the gift of the time I used to spend paying heed. I think now it makes far more sense just to rather not know. I used to read Salon daily. I haven't wanted to even check it in weeks.

  I never imagined that past Bush it could get so bizarre so fast that ignorance might really become, if not bliss, at least the sanest way to cope with another four year helping of folly.

  The best thing about Obama is that having paid close attention to all his campaign tactics and comprehending the true import of his Chicago origins, my expectations of him are so inestimably low that there is no possible way Obama will ever be able to disappoint me.

  As for you who insisted on electing him, you've answered something I've always wondered about. Why people, who finding themselves in crisis could deliberately waste logic and deny reality by constructing a Golden Calf, would ever bother to think that worshiping it could ever solve anything.

  -gala1

  —gala11 Read gala11's other letters
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