October 5, 2008- The Non-Existent Man

   Now that we are finally coming down to the homestretch in this endless Presidential race of 2008, it seems that the early favorite, Barack Obama, has pulled back into the lead, the latest polls all seem to agree that he has gotten back the lead that he fumbled away over the summer and is now closer than ever to his dream, occupying the Oval Office come next January. The recent economic problems have all but handed it to the guy, Bush just had to remind the people of what an asshole he is one last time, reminding them to punish the republican Party for ever letting this fucker be their candidate, and that means that John McCain is pretty much doomed come next month. He is going to bear the brunt of the anger that Americans are going to direct at Bushg, and that is not really a surprise, since Bush and Mc Cain are political enemies fromk a longtime ago,  Bush just loves screwing the guy out of the White House as his last act of pettiness as President. So since he has now done that, the election is Obama's to lose more than ever, and the guy just has to not be a total fuckup these last few weeks and he is in. Since his party says that they had nothing to do with the economic mess, which is a total bald-faced lie because they are as responsible for this as ther Republicans are,but the important thing is that the American people believe that they had nothing to do with it, and that gives Obama an advantage that is his to lose. This is exactly how the dude wanted this all to play out all along, it has been no secret that Obama is big on style, much more so than substance, and if all he has to do is continue to promote the image that he has had so carefully cultivated for him, that he'll win handily, that is as easy as it gets for the dude. Lok for Obama to start making himself lok more and moee Presidential as this month goes on, and the lead grows, because it shall take a major gaffe by Obama to blow this one, arrogance and conceit just won't do it alone, he will have to fuck up royally to get that done. Obama is at the point where he just has to break even between now and eledction day and he shall win, Mc Cain and Palin will have to pull off the miracle of all time to even come close to beating him, and despite what they may think, they just do not have that in them, this year or any year. Mc Cain mjay have the experience and also have a woman Vice-Presidential candidate in Palin, but they are no match for the Obama juggernaut, never really have been, because the Obama campaign has been a finely tuned machine ever since this whole fucking thing started a few years ago, and that machine sees the finish line ahead and is about to kick itself into high gear so that Obama can easily coast across the finish line just like he always planned it to be all along. That campaign is setting standards that will be copied in Presidential campaigns for the rest of this century, the ways that they are going about things are revolutionary and innovative, and that has been a large part of why the Cult Of Obama has been so successful this year and this campaign. Obama stands to make history in more ways than just being the first mixed race President in American history, he is making history by running a campaign that has used tactics never before seen and used them more successfully than any new tactics have ever been in political campaigns going back to way the fuck back in the day in America. Those tactics are going to get Obama into the White House, almost surely, and there is one particulr reason that they have worked so well for Obama.

   That reason is a single individual, David Axelrod, no, not the dude that was with the Electric Prunes and wrote the Mass In F Minor album, but this David Axelrod is a political consultant that has worked in the Chicago area for decades now and been involved in many politrical campaigns over the years. Lots of candidates runing for various offices here in Chicagoland have used his services and gotten themselves elected largely because of what he can do, so Obama was steered to him to be his grandest project of all, creating a President of the United Sattes, and a non-white one to boot. Barack Obama was the perfect candidate for Axelrod to work with, someone with an insatiable ego that wanted everything right away, whether he had the credentials to do that or not. So what Axelrod has done is to create an image, a vision of Barack Obama, as something that is above and beyond any other political candidate in history,someone that is a Savior come to rescue America and the world at this rough time. The image of Obama as this Savior man has been trumpeted from on high by Axelrod and the American media, and people are so captivated by it that they are not even looking at the issue of Obama have little experience to be eminently qualified to be President right now. Things like who Obama's friends and associates have been over the years are glossed over, and contradictory statements that he makes are dismessed and any mistakes that he makes are ignored, all in favor of the promotion of the man as this Savior figure come to rescue us all. This is a brilliant strategy to use at a time like this, when America is more fucked up than they have ever been for a long time, if ever, because the people are so freaked out over what is going on that they are desperate enough to believe in the image of a Savior that comes to save them all from ruin, and Obama is more than willing to put himself in that spot. After all, America has had almost eight years of a President that insists that he talks to God directly all the time, and that God tells him what to do, and that if you do not believe this, you are a traitor to America, so it is not a far stretch from that to paint someone as the antithesis of that, and that is what Axelrod has done with Obama. People just ignore the fact that the man has done virtualy nothing except run for President his entire career, never sticking around any level of the political systrem very long because it was not good enough for him, and not getting all that much in the way of hands-on experience doing that. Axelrod had to create an image for Obama that was as far away from that reality as possible, because if the people saw that reality clearly, they would not believe that Obama was what he says that he is, and not support him. If you create this image of a Savior that did what he did because he had to get busy saving the people right away, and to do that, he had to be at the top level as soon as possible, so he just did not have time for these other jobs much, you make that all sound logical to a frightened public that just does not understand what the fuck is going on anymore. You take the election and turn it away from issues and experience and shit and make it all about images and show, and that favors a man that has never done anything else than that his whole life, and you hook that man up with a genius like Axelrod, and you have this so far unstoppable juggernaut that looks to be sweeping its way into the White House in a little less than a month now, and David Axelrod is singlehandedly responsible for that, so Obama is indeed looking like his greatest project and greatest victory ever.

   The point behind all of this is to make sure that when Election Day finally comes, that the American electorate will vote based on the image of Obama that Axelrod has so carefully crafted instead of looking at Obama the real man, the politician, the activist, and so forth, and deciding based on that. This is why Axelrod is going tomake sure that nothing except the image Obama shows his face this next month, they have already taken steps like ensuring that every word that the man says is scripted beforehand, so there is no ad libbing at all by the candidate, putting the final touches on the image that they are sure will ensure victory for them in November. So many people are so enamoured and fooled by that image that they are sure to support Obama next month, and that is all that Axelrod has wanted to do right now. Surely, he has plans galore for what he wants to do with the image of Obama as President, but the first order of busienss is to make sure that they get in there to begin with, and that is what the next month is all about. No candidate in history has ever been packaged and sold to the American people like Obama, and the selling job is almost done now, just the last touches remain. All that matters is that the voters take the idealized image of Obama as savior into the polling places next month and beleive in that image for as long as it takes them to cast their votes and finish their ballots. After that, they don't give much of a fuck, because they ae ready to go into Phase Two of the Obama inage campaign and what the people think does not really matter then. Axelrod will come up with a way to make the people think what they want them to think about Obama and just take it from there. Even if the American people suddenly started demanding full accountability from Obama and the campaign, it is too late for that, Obama's past is shrouded in mystery and murkiness to the extent that nothing about his past is truly clear, and by the time you would have figured it all out and shit , Election Day would have come and gone already. The time to dig intoi that shit was long ago, but Axelrod made sure that no one did much of that by creating that image that awed everyone into reverence and obedience. Anything that you might come up with now is going to prove to be irrelevant, because the Obama machine can brush it all off and such and stall it until after the election. You would have to come up with something major like Obama was busted for something once and did time for it or some such shit to derail him now, and Axelrod would not have worked with the guy if there had been anything in his past that would remotely become a scandal like that, so you know that is not going to happen. The American people are going to go into the polls next month voting on an idealized image of a man that was fed to them incessantly by his machine instead of voting on what this man has really done and accomplished in his life instead of what his machine says he did and accomplished. That's the only way that the guy can beat Mc Cain or anybody else as well, and that was why he went to Axelrod to craft his campaign, becauase Axelrod is not an issues guy, he is an image guy, and all that Obama has ever had is image, so he needed an expert on how to maximize that and he sure got it. In less than a month, Axelrod gets to see if his masterpiece is successful or not, and signs all seem to point to it being so, and that means that a non-existent man will be elected President, an image elected over issues and experience.

   However, there is another side to this all, and that is the question of whether what Obama and Axelrod are doing is really all that different than what political candidates have been doing for centuries now? Every candidate, including John Mc Cain, hires a dude like Axelrod to be a point man in the campaign, to sell him to the American public as President. None of these dudes are issues men, they are all image men like Axelrod, and they all have the same goal in mind, to make their candidate look as good as possible to the American people on Election Day. There has never been a Presidential candidate, going all the way back to George Washington, who has not used selling of an image as a large part of their campaign. No political candidate wants to run solely based on record, despite what they say, because every politician's record is contradictory, that is the nature of it all, so there is always something there for opponents to pick out and make an  issue out of, so you need image men to smooth all of that over and shit. The only real difference with Axelrod and Obama is the fact that they are the most successful at it since the days of Abraham Lincoln, who also relied heavily on image men to get elected, and like Lincoln, Obama is changing the rules of campaigning by doing things revolutionary style like he has. John Mc Cain probably wishes that he had an image man half as good as David Axelrod is, because that seems to be the way that Presidential campaigns are being contested these days, with dueling images being as important, maybe more so, than dueling issues. A lot of that is because the American public these days is obsessed with celebrities and shit, and The President is one of the biggest celebrities in America, so many Americans are starting to look at it all as electing a celebrity instead of a politician, sort of like voting on American Idol or one of those kind of TV shows. Axelrod saw that and jumped on it and it looks like he has hit on a winner here. If he is successful at this, look for future candidates to put far more emphasis on image over issues, because if that is what the American people want, that is what the American politicians are supposed to give them, so rest assured that they will, because they are all going to want to follow in Obama's footsteps by being successful like he is, so that is how Obama has changed the Presidential election system totally. If he wins, he would not only be the first mixed-race President, but possibly the first totally non-existent man to get elected, a man that got in purely on style and not on substance at all. That is eminently appealing to all politicians, because it plays into the fact that none of them are for real anyway, they are all fakes and frauds, and if they get to concentrate on image instead of substance from now on, that means that they have to worry even less about being discovered and such, making it easier for them to do their thing. So totally non-existent men and women are sure to be the politicians of choice in America as the 21st Century moves along, because unless Obama totally fucks this all up somewhere, he has set a new standard for politics, a standard that they all accept very well regardless of party affliations, because it is a lower standard than ever, and politicians are very good about accepting the lowest of standards, and this onhe is about as low as they go. That will be the first immediate part of Obama's legacy, the lowering of these standards to new all-time lows, and thgat wil be the "change" and "hope" that the man is going to bring America, not the bullshit that Axelrod writes for him to say to the American people.

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