Got first hand look last night at what's at the root of the Obama phenomenon. A group of people were hanging around the restaurant for drinks and chatter, thirty something types, and they were going on with worshipful exaggeration about The Chosen One - most of which could be reduced - rendered may be the better verb - down to: He's gonna change everything. I laughed and said in so many words you mean because he's black. They protested and started throwing around some vague set of beliefs ostensibly defining a nebulous idealism. I laughed and said ah, you mean because he's black and quite liberal. They protested and, like true Obama fans, suggested that maybe I was a racist. I laughed and said not at all; I'd support a Colin Powell presidency, not Condelezza though, she was a fuck up as the NSA. They looked a bit confused with that, troubling acronym no doubt, then stumbled into some pronouncements on the whole new world order of hope vs racist conservatives rant. I laughed and said but I already said I'm not a racist, nor a conservative for that matter; I'd vote for Powell - the key here is you wouldn't nor would you be all awash with excitement if Powell were the one breaking the colour barrier here. It's because Obama intimates support for the ultra left wing shibboleths you idiots hold so dear to your hearts and is a black man to boot who conveniently speaks with the calming appeal of a white academic thus allowing you to safely imbue him with all kinds of new agey bring the world together bullshit, that's what's got you all excited. He's the perfect vessel to fill to the brim with your noxious liberal brew of sentimentality, shallow idealism and shoddy thinking. That kind of killed the conversation and I wandered off.
These people were all in their 30's, were college educated with pretty good jobs, were in relationships but not married, had dogs but no kids, liked to smoke pot, a lot from what I could tell, liked to sit around bars and restaurants talking nonsense with like minded friends. Read into that what you will.
