Abu Wabu

Debbie Schlussel points out a well-made YouTube video that begins the deconstruction of The One in Obamboozled: Did B Hussein O Steal Speeches From Racist Spike Lee Movies? The vid puts a face to the name David Axelrod, the central figure behind the campaigns of B. Hussein Ubama, John Edwards and Deval Patrick, all based on a weird kind of populism that, in Oby's case, has taken on the air of a religious cult, which is where the link to the Malcom X story comes in.



An anonymous behind-the-curtains figure runs three different campaigns all employing the same cheap populist buzzphrases and empty rhetoric, now borrows lines from a movie about a radical American Muslim politician. That's just a little too fucking creepy. On the other hand, it fits with the Che banners in The One's campaign offices and other subtle (and, in the case of The She-One, not-so-subtle) unpatriotic tics manifesting themselves throughout the campaign. It all makes for a weird and, I think, dangerous brew that people may come to wish they'd never been tempted to taste.

Speaking of weird, here's the latest from The She-One:

Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.

And so there is Barack's message as conceived by David Axelrod and delivered through Mrs. Obama: You are cynical. You are divisive. You are isolated. You need improvement. You need to be better. You are uninvolved. You are uninformed. You are disengaged. You need to have your present life taken away from you so that all your faults can be corrected. And only Barack can do that.

And here is my message to Barack: you don't speak for the likes of me. I'll leave it up to you to declare who you do speak for, but it ain't me.