I have tried to avoid the hysterics of this campaign season.
It has been quite a media extravaganza with Bill and Hill at core of national politics for 18 years with all the trysts and turns of a French political scandal on the order of a Simone de Bouvoir or Francois Mitterand or perhaps a Nero or Julius Ceasar..
Of course, if anyone is going to write a piece on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, one must be prepared for a conundrum of Clinton melodrama dating back to ...well... ancient Rome, of all places to start. Flowing perpetually through Goldwater, Watergate and Whitewater cascading into Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, Impeachment, The New York Senate seat and now a poorly executed Presidential bid.
Great Ceasar's ghost! The blue grotto of Capri is an Ozark mountain cesspool of Vice Presidential up welling.
I, perhaps like you , find a lot of what happens around here and elsewhere...Hilarious.
Where does one start?
Ironically, now at the end of the primary season. We can all look back and wonder, nay marvel, at the Democratic primary season as a historic event somewhat unprecedented in modern political entertainment.
Quite a spectacle on the order of the Julia of another bygone empire where the the Patricians and dynastic shenanigans of yesteryear bedazzled the the mobs of Rome with Coliseum-like events of ruling class adoration and unenlightened plebian pageantry of political stunts and theatrics.
We really have a monumental task before us.
Not only do we have to heal a dubiously divided Democratic party, a wounded Republic and Georgius Bushes crossing the Rubicon; we have a nation and world that needs our very careful and thoughtful insights, discussions and actions to bring the passions and policies that ensure real progressive change and a different course of global political action and knowledge from the rising threat of barbarian McCainaanites and the hordes of O'Reillyheads amidst a laissez-faire electorate.
Does anyone have a fiddle?
We should all contemplate what reaching out to our compatriots looks like other than the Circus Maximus that plays endlessly on the Corporate owned media.
What will happen in the now latte-steamed darkened backrooms of national Democratic power brokering is anybody's guess. The V.P. selection process has the highly speculative scenarios of further rupture, betrayal, outrage and gnashing of teeth... Et tu Brute?
Florida and Michigan and the DNC spawned a wave of Hillarity that certainly saw the lions and lionesses devouring Obamites and possibly a few christian pastors along the way.
Gladiators and chanting mobs of Hillary supporters bussed in from Palm Beach, Manhatten and Saginaw cheering on the Julia of the great Pax Americana. You just can't make this stuff up.
Historical re-evolution indeed for the hard wired Homo Sapien sense of flattery, self gratification and sense of Empire, wealth, power and greed.
Or as Markos would say ....Hilarious !