I’m going to play contrarian on Wretch’s “dense pack” metaphor. Whatever else he’s talking about, he’s talking about cognitive overload due to a large variety of signals.
I propose that Obama is not sending out such a variety, bewildering or not. I propose that he is sending out the same signal over and over again. That signal has the following content: “Change change change,” usque ad fin. There are different kinds of changes proposed: fiscal, foreign policy, market, etc. but they’re all predicated on the notion–what else do we do when we change presidents–that whatever the status quo is, it’s bad, and we must have something different. Plus ca change.
Some respondents are puzzled by the utter vacuity of some of their friends’ reasoning on the subject of The Great Zero–who is a zero because he invites any number of different numbers to be put in front of his pristine vacuity.
Another way of putting my point: a characteristic of O’s operatives is that they all do illegal things in plain sight (“Gun? what gun? Where do you see a gun? I’m not holding a gun? No, that’s not a gun, that’s a can opener in the shape of a gun. You think that’s a gun. What are you, a racist?” etc. etc. etc.). We’ve got the ACORN people screwing around with the voting process all over the place. “What illegally-registered voters? This is simply Republican political manipulations powered by Republican insistence that the illegalities we are committing right-and-left are illegalities.”
Ditto for the wholesalve violation of voting laws in accepting money from foreigners.
Where’s the “density”? This business is amazing because a true con man knows how to hide his con. That’s because he knows he’s a con man. But I believe that Obama and his ilk and those who like his ilk are truly taken in by their own con.
The still point of the moving world which is American presidential politics today is that Obama really believes what he says. No fool like the fool who says and does foolish things and doesn’t know it.
What’s going to be “dense” out there is picking and choosing among the various targets which a Great Zero administration is going to offer. A respondent on Powerline is already predicting a movement for impeachment within hours of inauguration.
