Did I read somewhere that the Obama administration just passed the 200 day mark? Hmph. I'm more interested in knowing whether someone has been keeping track of how many words he's thrown at us and the rest of the universe since he took office. A million? Two?
But it's not just him. A few minutes ago, I ran screaming from Twitter, stuffing in earplugs and tying a bandanna over my eyes. To do what? Write words about words. Blah blah blah ...
I want a moratorium. I want some verbal silence, replaced with careful, non-reactive thought and then, effective action. We really need to stop and really need to think. In Twitter parlance, I'd be very happy if Oblahma, his handlers, Congress, and the media (including the "alternative", "social" media) would just STFU for at least a week, better, for a month. What if we all just went for a walk in the woods - some place where the dozers and backhoes aren't parked because the developers lost their funding?
Yeah, yeah: it's really kinda refreshing that we now have a president with a working knowledge of the English language. I do, however, have to say that it grates on my nerves every time he says "tuh" instead of "to". Nobody's perfect, though, even the anointed world spokesman for "hope" and "change". But "refreshing" is not what we need. We don't need to be refreshing the same web page, because the content hasn't changed since Obama's picture replaced Bush's.
The Bush administration's job was clear and they did it well: destroying the United States of America as a national entity. Mainly, it succeeded in nullifying the Constitution, implementing the framework of a security state, and bankrupting the country fiscally, mentally, and emotionally.
There really weren't many words spoken by the President during his administrations. He kept embarrassing himself and everybody else. As Dick Cheney knew, the trick was to act, to just keep moving, and keep giving everyone the finger when they caught on and complained. Lie. Avoid. Obfuscate. Ignore. It worked. All those words from us, claiming that The Dubbleduh-Chainey Gang was "stupid" or "crazy" were just plain wrong. Most of us just couldn't fathom the fact that they had the strategy, tactics, and balls to pull it off.
The Obama administration is no different - not one bit. The agenda is the same. A product of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and the Bilderberg Group (as have been the past several administration - see Daniel Estulin's "The True Story of the Bilderberg Group"), it continues to look the other way while international bankers suck the core out of country. It blatantly refuses to prosecute The Gang for treason and crimes against humanity. It keeps clamps on the secrets that might free us all from perfidy if only they were revealed. And it keeps us divided, at war with each other and the Middle East and Asia, fighting about the nuances of health care and race and even what constitutes torture (see the July issue of
Harper's Magazine, "We Still Torture").
Even though I'm fairly immune vis-a-vis Oblahma's siren call, I don't listen to his pressers and speeches, because I won't subject myself to mass hypnosis. Although I see some promise that a person of mixed race now sits in the Oval Office, I also see that his selection was an empty victory when it comes to effective and lasting victory for the poor and disenfranchised. All it has done is to fully include all races in the category of the unneeded and unemployed and ignored - a culture of desperation ...
The words will not stop, of course. It has been "the great communicators" (Reagan, Clinton, and now Obama) who have wreaked the greatest havoc on the nation and its people. For me, "charisma" is a a four-letter word. Hitler was charismatic. Look what happened to Germany and the rest of Europe as the result of his speeches.
So the words won't stop - but we need to stop listening to our "leaders", whether they be Obama or Palin, McCain or Paul, Beck or Couric. We need to stop asking
them questions and stop believing
their words. We need to realize that they talk so much because they're all salespeople and
they want something from us - our power, our support, our acquiescence, our silence, or complicity. If they get that, we will surely get nothing back except the sorrow of the status quo.
We need to tune out the words and listen to the urgent beat of our hearts. We must ask ourselves what we truly want and how we can get it. After all, it's supposed to be our country. I'm truly not interested in those "leaders" telling me what I should want. I learned a long time ago that anybody who talks as much as they do just isn't listening.
We must, just for example, ask ourselves questions like these:
How can I get back the money the bankers and speculators have stolen from me? If there is no really discernible difference between the real agendas of the Democratic and Republican parties, what do we do about the prospect of elections in 2010 and 2012? If 911 was an "inside job", how do we bring the criminals to justice? Just what the hell are the real stakes in Afghanistan, Gaza, Iran and how do we want them to turn out.
I have a strong feeling that if we really listen to ourselves, rather than the speechmakers, we will have just a three-word answer: "No. More. Blah."
Please don't tell us you love us, Oblahma. Show us.
