Showing posts with label Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obama. Show all posts
Thursday, 10 November 2016
Wednesday, 28 January 2015
Thursday, 22 January 2015
Wednesday, 31 December 2014
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Monday, 28 October 2013
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Monday, 12 August 2013
Monday, 19 March 2012
Thursday, 29 September 2011
Black Obama to Striped Obama
This is the picture of Obama that keeps
coming to my mind as I hear of this or that of his deed in domestic or foreign
policy spheres, and I think this picture will go down in history as the
defining character of Obama`s presidency and his role in the world.
This picture was taken and officially
released as perhaps the only picture of the War Room during America`s raid in
Pakistan to assassinate Osama bin Laden. What does it show? There are the
Defense Department , State Department, and CIA Chiefs, one or two Generals,
some very senior Standees at the back – and almost as an afterthought the
President of USA sitting on the side perhaps on
a low stool hastily brought in at the last minute.
What does this
picture – an official release by the US Govt, and shown to billions of people
in the world hundreds of time in the aftermath -- say about Obama? That he is Informal and Cool? One of
the boys ? Or that he is and remains a peripheral nigger in the WASP sanctum
sanctorum of the biggest Imperial power
the planet has ever seen?
My guess is that the operation – ignorantly
named Geronimo, not fiendishly cunningly – would have been definitely planned
and discussed in deepest detail with Obama for knowledge and sanction. But his
having a fine legal mind and perhaps also for protocol detail it was not on the
cards to provide for His chair during the actual execution of the raid. And as
it was going down as they say, he wanted to be present for the thrills. Hence
the last minute stool on the side.
But this picture randomly thrown up by
history as it was happening will become an emblem, a code, a signifier of the Obama
Story. His niggerhood , his tenacity, his success, his clever negotiation of
the whitey jungle, his contrived aplomb, his peripheral position grudgingly
conceded by the establishment, his lawyerly smallness . All this the picture
has captured for the later students of history and biography, all the comedy
and tragedy of Obama.
Chancing upon the first Great Crash of
markets in the 21st century he makes grand statements of
Rooseveltian New Deal but ends with some sleazy backroom deals with bankers and
asset funds. Visits Egypt with a major speech to turn around America`s
antipathy with the muslim world but goes on to make covert interventions in
Egypt, Libya, and Syria , and latest, tries to block Palestine`s UN membership.
Makes lofty bytes on Medicare but ends up being upstaged by the industry. Bush
at least follows the often fake American tradition of rule of law by bringing
Saddam Hussein to a kangaroo court, but Obama illegally sends his forces at
night across a foreign nation`s border for a secret murder and and burial of
Osama bin Laden. He vows to bring American troops back home but signs secret
orders to increase US military involvement abroad—oh so cleverly by saying that
no American soldier has set a foot on Libya`s soil, for example.
Oh, he is
clever, too clever by half. Not a FDR, but a Nixon. Michael Jackson opted to
surgically change the colour of his skin in order to be accepted ; Obama has
tried the more ambitious route of thinking like the firangis; both have failed
in face of bigotry of their societies.
He has spent a lifetime of hard striving
against a hostile social setting fuelled by a hollow loquacity, and sadly he
will also be felled by it.
Watch the picture, and wait and see.
Friday, 23 September 2011
Friday, 4 March 2011
Wednesday, 16 February 2011
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Sunday, 7 November 2010
Monday, 1 November 2010
Monday, 25 October 2010
Thursday, 2 September 2010
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
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