The 'State of the Union' - History is a Bitch...
That new day?
We're here.
Mulatto President, Barack Obama delivered a tour de force in his first speech to the American People, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Supreme Court and both houses of the United States Congress.
And the Cabinet, and White House Staff.
The GOP countered with a first-generation son of Indian parents, Governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal.
These guys look different. More importantly, these guys, whose life stories and education are loaded with lesson materials - appear to actually have gotten the lessons.
Well...one did.
Governor Jindal is new on the National stage and has enthusiastically embraced his role as the immigrant face of the GOP and a broken down party has endorsed this far right thinker with the dark complexion...if he succeeds, they take away their banner as the 'Bigot Party', if he doesn't?
Well...you know.
It's a setup, the sacrificial lamb. And Jindal is betting on himself, as is Sarah and the four other American governors who DECLINED Federal Funds on PHILOSOPHICAL grounds, taking money OUT of the pockets of American citizens to make a point.
Not a new point, mind you, the same one you've all become used to - your suffering is good for America. Jindal's Gator constituents know that rap better than anyone. His very presence in the Governor's Mansion is attributable to those realities. How a battered populace will respond to such brinksmanship with THEIR lives is an interesting question. Apparently Jindal believes that is still possible, in the American South to tell poor people and soon-to-be-poor people to take their concerns inward and return those who arranged that condition back to office.
Not surprising. Like WWII Japanese, Oglala Sioux and Hamas, the American Right long ago identified its willingness to fight on against any odds, and to stay 'on message', no matter what the data, the voters and even a nodding acquaintaince with reality might otherwise lead to.
As a Yankee fan who bails on any game or series that doesn't show signs of falling easily into the Pantheon of Propaganda (PoP), I have seen such miracles occur, at my expense.
I saw the defeated Arizona DiamondBacks come back and defeat Mariano Rivera.
I saw Red Sox fans with signs saying 'Why not us?', and saw their faith rewarded by an unprecedented comeback from 3.8-0 to the first World Series in Nine Decades.
It CAN happen.
Won't happen here. But I thought that in Boston too, you crazy fools...
It's never the way to bet.
