blog - gObama 2008
Robert Scheer - author of “The pornography of power”
talks with Amy Goodman from DN about the defense budget
(Berlin, Germany - 10.11 p.m.local time)
Hillary has won Puerto Rico with a voter turnout of 10 percent. Obama congratulated her but focused on the campaign in Mitchel,SD. This comes after he described the DNC decision (each got half a vote in Michigan and Florida) as a “fair solution”. It looks like if you find your own voice and act like a winner, people start believing that you are.
A journalist described Clinton’s behavior as a mixture of narcissistic and neurotic self-delusion. Nice touch. Obama decided early on in his campaign, that he did not want to run a negative campaign and always called her:"outstanding public servant" that would be a "great asset" to try and defeat presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain in November. Such different attitude of Obama in his rhetoric and style has won him a lot of sympathy among voters. To be honest - how to answer her bitch-slapping and racist remarks otherwise?
Too gracious and humble for my taste..., or does he not see that her power hunger and self-obsession might turn into a lose canon, who accidentally assassinates him on the way to the party nomination? Just an accident, cause she was tired...
A possibility of a physical attack is not ruled out in the race - note the double meaning of the word race. Hillary is the great avenger by trying to change the rules all the time. An assassin on her gender war on race?
In a very interesting take on the election fever, the former LA Times columnist Robert Scheer puts the finger deep into the wound. His great book titles it: “The pornography of power” that is just out now.
http://www.truthdig.com/about/staff/4
I was intrigued what he had to say about the Empire and the Republic in this interview, like the impact for Western forms of democracy.
I remember the book EMPIRE by Michael Hardt/Antonio Negri (which came out a couple of years ago, but which I never read, because of its sheer size and complexity). I guess its time to catch up with a deeper analysis of neo-conservative take overs. I must read the book - since the impact of imperial politics has shaped my generations attempts for forms of multitude so deeply.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Negri
"Certainly, there must be a moment when re-appropriation [of wealth from capital] and self-organization [of the multitude] reach a threshold and configure a real event. This is when the political is really affirmed— when the genesis is complete and self-valorization, the cooperative convergence of subjects, and the proletarian management of production become a constituent power. […] We do not have any models to offer for this event. Only the multitude through its practical experimentation will offer the models and determine when and how the possible becomes real." (Empire, 411)
Sounds complicated? I think it is - certainly for a historic figure like Obama, who connects with voters and has to deal with their collective projections. A fight for redemption from corporate control...telling a good story helps. Listen here:
Obama (audio live on CNN) in Mitchel, SD - 1 June 08
talks with Amy Goodman from DN about the defense budget
Power of the voice of truth
Sunday, June 1, 2008
(Berlin, Germany - 10.11 p.m.local time)
Hillary has won Puerto Rico with a voter turnout of 10 percent. Obama congratulated her but focused on the campaign in Mitchel,SD. This comes after he described the DNC decision (each got half a vote in Michigan and Florida) as a “fair solution”. It looks like if you find your own voice and act like a winner, people start believing that you are.
A journalist described Clinton’s behavior as a mixture of narcissistic and neurotic self-delusion. Nice touch. Obama decided early on in his campaign, that he did not want to run a negative campaign and always called her:"outstanding public servant" that would be a "great asset" to try and defeat presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain in November. Such different attitude of Obama in his rhetoric and style has won him a lot of sympathy among voters. To be honest - how to answer her bitch-slapping and racist remarks otherwise?
Too gracious and humble for my taste..., or does he not see that her power hunger and self-obsession might turn into a lose canon, who accidentally assassinates him on the way to the party nomination? Just an accident, cause she was tired...
A possibility of a physical attack is not ruled out in the race - note the double meaning of the word race. Hillary is the great avenger by trying to change the rules all the time. An assassin on her gender war on race?
In a very interesting take on the election fever, the former LA Times columnist Robert Scheer puts the finger deep into the wound. His great book titles it: “The pornography of power” that is just out now.
http://www.truthdig.com/about/staff/4
I was intrigued what he had to say about the Empire and the Republic in this interview, like the impact for Western forms of democracy.
I remember the book EMPIRE by Michael Hardt/Antonio Negri (which came out a couple of years ago, but which I never read, because of its sheer size and complexity). I guess its time to catch up with a deeper analysis of neo-conservative take overs. I must read the book - since the impact of imperial politics has shaped my generations attempts for forms of multitude so deeply.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Negri
"Certainly, there must be a moment when re-appropriation [of wealth from capital] and self-organization [of the multitude] reach a threshold and configure a real event. This is when the political is really affirmed— when the genesis is complete and self-valorization, the cooperative convergence of subjects, and the proletarian management of production become a constituent power. […] We do not have any models to offer for this event. Only the multitude through its practical experimentation will offer the models and determine when and how the possible becomes real." (Empire, 411)
Sounds complicated? I think it is - certainly for a historic figure like Obama, who connects with voters and has to deal with their collective projections. A fight for redemption from corporate control...telling a good story helps. Listen here:
Obama (audio live on CNN) in Mitchel, SD - 1 June 08