Forgiven wrote a well-intentioned post on My Left Wing called America is Cool Again. In it he posited the idea that the “coolness” of the Obamas and company rivaled that of the Kennedys and that being the case, we were once again somehow in the catbird seat as far as the rest of the world is concerned.
Not since the early sixties has America so epitomized the notion of cool in the world as we do today. What began as a fist bump on the primary trail has reached a national shout-out before both chambers of Congress. The Obamas in the White House has once again provided the world with the desire to be a part of America and part of the cool that they perceive America to be. Whether it’s the pop star reception of Hillary Clinton in Asia or the talk around European capitals the buzz is unmistakable. The thing about the Kennedy administration that many have forgotten was that they had style and exuded cool to not only Americans but to the world. They made other people in the world want to be American and if they couldn’t be American to immolate American style and coolness.
Sorry, Forgiven…that’s “emulate”, not immolate, but Freud would have been proud. The truth of the matter is that most of the world…not the world that was covered in the hype-news of the day (Or the hype-news of this day, either.), just the 90% of the people of the world who didn’t have shit in the ’60s much as they do not now…did want to “immolate” American style, coolness and in point of fact America itself.
Some of them, failing to have the power to do so, instead immolated themselves in protest.
How cool was THAT!!!???
Pretty fucking hot, indeed.
Meanwhile JFK fucked everything with an available hole, Jackie pretended not to notice, the CIA/Mafia interface eventually shot the fool for crossing them up after making promises that he could not keep and Jackie went on to marry the Toad King Aristotle Onassis.
Nice.
I won!!!
The bigbigbigbigbigbigbigbigBIG lottery!!!
I WON!!!
YIPPEE!!!
Nice.
Dynasty as gameshow.
Very nice.
Cool?
I got yer “cool”, right here!!!
The force that through the green (money) fuse really drives the rotten flower of “cool”.
Bet on it.
Read on for more.
Now the shoe is on the other foot. It is the U.S. that is being immolated.
Like this.
GM warns it may be forced into bankruptcy
DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors Corp on Thursday said its auditors had raised “substantial doubt” about its ability to survive outside bankruptcy if it fails to stem its losses and stop burning cash. The “going concern” warning from the struggling U.S. automaker had been expected, but underscored the stakes for GM as it seeks up to $30 billion in U.S. government aid to restructure outside a court-supervised bankruptcy process.
We are essentially printing money to stay afloat.
How cool is that?
This cool.
We keep this shit up, that’s where we are headed.
Bet on it.
I would be happier with less pictures of cool Barack and company in tuxes, ballgowns, Kennedyesque high fashion and such and more of a truly “cool” Barack in well-worn pants and a real workshirt traveling the rundown multi-racial working class neighborhoods of this country and walking into the offices of the fat motherfuckers who have run said country into the ground telling them to either get offa their asses and take care of business or be sent to harvest groundnuts in Minnesota forests and strawberries in the jolly fields of California.
But NOOOOO00000!!!
Hype and bailouts are the order of the day.
See!!!??? We’re gonna be OK!!! Lookit how well Ms. Clinton is looking!
Give me a BREAK!!!
The cost of the hair, makeup, scarf earrings and coat alone in this photo would feed 200 poor kids for a month or two.
What are they thinking!!!???
Look at the Chinese guy next to her. No glitz, just a shave and a combover and it’s time to go to work. We were like that once. Wha’ happened, America?
Sorry, bubba.
Smoke and mirrors only go so far.
You are now firmly on the wrong track.
Best of luck in the future.
You’re gonna need it if you think you can bluff your way outta this pickle.
Bet on that as well.
Later…
AG
As long as I don’t have to sleep with the fishy Onassis types of this world, of course.
I’d rather sleep with the fishes.
I really would.
Later…
AG
Actually the word I wanted to use was emulate, but just like the rest of the diary you chose to interpret it based on your experiences and world vision. By the way for the umpteenth time I am not a female…
Sorry…I will not forget again. I’ll use the Clint Eastwood character in The Unforgiven as a mnemonic.
AG
many are in denial.
Be prepared…… read beyond the headlines …like these:
Really, don’t expect any change.
who is Dennis Ross?
co-founder of AIPAC.
many repeat the CW that WWII pulled us out of the Great Depression…and only a war can pull us out of this Greater Depression — mired as we are in a quadrillion plus of debt.
Read this yet?
Dunno how much to believe…it reads a little like one of those “True Cime” articles you used to see in newspapers and Look Magazine…but there it is. Gotta deal with the possibility that some of it is true.
It goes on to say that she was used as a backchannel CIA asset pre-9/11 to gather and disperse certain information, and that while serving in that capacity she ran across…well, go read it and see for yourself.
Disinfo?
Maybe.
But with what aim?
AG
Disinfo? Maybe. But then a lot of disinfo out there – including —This Time It’s Mrs. Clinton’s Turn – former Sen. Abourezk. Read the whole thing.
I endorse the notion that where there is smoke, there’s heat.
and read this too–the War economy and Wall Street. A deep analysis of the Obama budget reveals his “promises” will never be delivered:
America’s Fiscal Collapse
after the war funding and bailout of wall street, there’s nothing left over for main street…not even a few crumbs. Really.
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According to The Scotsman, “just days after the downing of Iran Flight 665, an Iranian intelligence officer flown to Lebanon to meet two officials from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), Muhammad Hafiz Dalkamoni and a man known to the CIA as Nabil.” Chances are pretty good that the man known as Nabil was indeed Ghadanfar.
Two days after the bombing of Pan Am 103, communication intercepts indicate that Tehran ordered their Ambassador in Beirut to pay Jibril’s organization for the successful operation. The transfer of the money is recorded and Dalkamoni was in possession of the Paris bank account number when he was arrested.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Funny that you show a picture of Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton in her satorial and cosmetic splendor. I’ve been wondering for quite awhile, does she make herself up every day and, if so, how much time does she spend on her face? Has she followed makeup courses? Or, as I suspect, does she run around the world with a cosmetician, or is that a beautician, who produces the same miracle everyday: a woman of over sixty who pretends to be twenty. Who pays for this, by the way. Very cool, of you, Arhtur Gilroy. I remember how you were ever so excited about her. She’s an absolute horror show. And her show has just begun. It’s all me, you see.
“I would be happier with less pictures of cool Barack and company in tuxes, ballgowns, Kennedyesque high fashion and such and more of a truly “cool” Barack in well-worn pants and a real workshirt traveling the rundown multi-racial working class neighborhoods of this country…”
Check out Michelle Obama Spends Lunchtime Serving Homeless.
As you have previously noted AG, the Obamas are walking a fine line in this hypermedia age.
As to Hillary Clinton… “The cost of the hair, makeup, scarf earrings and coat alone in this photo would feed 200 poor kids for a month or two.
What are they thinking!!!???”
You’re joking, right?
And “the Chinese guy?” – “No glitz, just a shave and a combover and it’s time to go to work.” Maybe. Think his hands are work hardened or soft and manicured? And his coat… just off the rack made from any old fabric or sewn and tailored just for him?
Wearing earrings and a bright red scarf with hair and make-up in place is professional, not glitzy. As you noted repeatedly throughout the primaries, Clinton is a professional on the world stage.
As to “America” being “cool again” – pfft.
Good comment tampopo and I would add to it this, I recall Michelle O saying in an interview that Obama doesn’t like to buy new clothes and he insists on wearing these 10 year old pants, pointing to her husband.
Now to allow photos of him in his real state.
LOTS of them.
But noooooo…
It isn’t “presidential.”
AG