YES, CONDOLEEZA, OBAMA EXISTS!

Dear Guy,
I am a self-aggrandizing 8-year-old. Some of my greedy friends say there is no Obama. My security guard says, "if you read it in a blog, it's so." Please tell me the truth. Is there an Obama?
Condoleeza O'Reo
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Condoleeza, your piggy little friends are wrong. The have been infected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see on cable TV. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Condoleeza, whether they be men's or children's, are as little as yours. In this great universe of ours, men are mere insects, or ants, in their intellect as compared with the boundless (and warming) planet around them, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and power. How can you doubt if Obama is The One?

Yes, Condoleeza, there is an Obama. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and credulity that can be exploited, and you know that they abound and give to all our lives their highest beauty and joy. Alas! how hopeless would be the world if there were no Obamas to market the audacity of hope? It would be as flat and profitless as if there were no Condoleezas, and no international oil cartel. There would be no childlike faith in market economics then, no poetry, no sensational and carnival-like electoral cycles to make tolerable this subservient existence. We would have no enjoyment, then, except in blackberries and pornography. The brilliant white light with which credulity enlightens the warming planet would be extinguished. It would be like a sad and melancholy existence in a dreary world unillumined by Adam Smith's restricted economics or the guidance of the magnificently gifted oligarchical families whom the Almighty has in his infinite wisdom sent to lead our hesitant and faltering footsteps along Wall Stret's pathway to perfect and perpetual profit. Where would we be in our fallen state if it were not for the Browns, the Bloombergs, the Cheneys, the Clintons, the Corzines, the Cuomos, the Daleys, the Doles, the Forbes, the Humphreys, the Kennedys, the Rockefellers, the Roosevelts, the Saltonstalls, the Tafts and the Youngs sent to guide us? Where would we be without Ebony and Fortune? America then would look like Renaissance Italy without the Borgias, the Medici, the della Rovere, the Sforzas and Niccolo Machiavelli to enlighten and bring order to their city-states and their assiduous mayors (podestas).

Not believe in Obama! You might as well not believe in flunkys or fairies. You might get General Petreus to draft civilians to watch all the oil derricks on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus going down a derrick, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things are those that neither voters nor children can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on Wall Street? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there, or in the Congress, or the Pentagon,or armed resistence to the global financial empire.

You can tear apart the Middle East in a quixotic quest for weapons of mass distruction, but there is a veil covering the unseen world of fantasy which not the strongest man, not even the united strength of all the strongest military forces in the world could ever tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love and an irrepressible attraction toward the summum bonum can push aside the curtain of transient profit to picture the supernal beauty and glory of another world beyond. Is it all for real? Ah, Condoleeza, in all this world there is nothing more real and abiding than our illusions.

No Obama! Thank the Almighty! He lives and lives in the hearts of humankind forever. A thousand years from now, Condoleeza, 10,000 years from now, Obama's fiat mintage of small change will continue to inflate and gladden the credulous hearts of ambitious men who share a childlike faith in the American form of predatory plutocracy.

-----Wall Street Sun
Deo gratias

NIHIL OBSTAT





NIHIL OBSTAT