PEN-L message, Re: [Pen-l] Obama and the Cult of Personality

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:30 PM, <Waistline2@xxxxxxx> wrote:

For reasons to complex for my silly head to fully explain, 1776 and 1865, still provoke profound emotions amongst a huge section of America. For me it is the promise and possibility to change and right historical wrongs.

2 and a half million people showed up, to directly take part in Obama's inauguration. No matter what ones interpretation, yesterday has to be the greatest mass gathering in the history of America. Obama and his wife Michelle, dancing to the song, "At Last" was much more symbolic and rich to fit into the ideological category called "social-patriotic."

In other words, since masses of people support the new War Criminal-in-Chief (partially as a relief from the nightmare of the last War Criminal-in-Chief) you think we should endorse the electronic Nuremburg rally for U.S. imperialism. Because that is what it was, an electronic ralley for the "New" Empire.

If one result of electing America's first African American president is that people of color are more likely to support U.S. imperialism and violence then we should count this as a bad result. The U.S. empire was suffering a massive crisis at home and abroad, and it is Obama's job to pretty up the image so U.S. corporations can get on with their business. He says it is his job and you seem to support him doing it.

The cultural-historical significance of this event is not in doubt. But the fact is Obama is the chief executive of the ruling class and has no intention to be anything else. It is our job to make sure that we tell people he has taken up this position, no matter how unpopular we will be in the telling.

Jerry

"At last,

my love has come along,

My lonely nights are over,

And life is like a song."

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:39 AM, <Waistline2@xxxxxxx> wrote:

As a communist, I voted for Obama. There was a deep need within myself to be a part of a historical moment in America. My wife and I voted for Obama; my children voted for Obama and all of their coworkers and friends voted for Obama.

Great social-patriotic non-sense. A celebration of U.S. patriotism is a celebration for U.S. slaughter and imperialism. We have seen Obama's kind of inaugral celebration before with Ronald Reagan and JFK. Any person who opposes the slaughter, degradation, and exploitation of people around the world should be frightened by such displays in the U.S.

What is Obama going to change in the U.S. empire? Is he going to dismantle the regional commands? stop supporting Israel in their slaughter of Palestinians? stop the bombing of Pakistan, and withdraw from Afghanistan? stop the continual slaughter of people in countries like Hati and Colombia?

I don't get it. Why would a person who calls herself a communist endorse this celebration of U.S. super-patriotism?

WL.

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