August 5, 2011

The President Who Wasn't There

By James Lewis
We have a president named "Obama."  If you believe your media -- (hah!) -- he is a kind of Űbermensch, a more-than-human giant intellect.  Or, as one addled dork said two years ago, Obama must be A Light Bringer.  That's why the Norwegian Nobel Prize committee got the hots for him so bad that they had to give him the big prize before he did anything.  Like Algore's Peace Prize, it was awarded for postmodern (Po-Mo) -- that is, completely fictional -- good intentions.  No actual achievements were wanted or needed.  Since Marxist college professors are not going to do this job for us, I will now perform a postmodern "deconstruction" of the so-called "president" of the "United States."  (Those sneer quotes are Po-Mo sniggers for things that are obviously fictional except that normal people think they are real.  Like "money" and "freedom.") Following in the footsteps of intellectual frauds like Derrida and Heidegger, I will now demonstrate to the...(Read Full Article)