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Deep Thought | 53 comments (53 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Deep Thought (4.00 / 3)

Well, this one has been smelly on both sides on the Net but it does seem to me that the Clintonistas are the author of their own woe. They've come across as a bunch of Stormtroopers. Jack and Jill Politics has been referring to Clinton as "Hillpatine" and it does seem apt, give what I've seen both from the campaign itself and from the Hillblogs. Not to say that there hasn't been real venom from our side but I see a lot of that as reaction. It raises my blood pressure to read Jerome or Turkana or Big Tent Democrat so I don't but lots of us do. As for misogyny, well how is Eva Peron a radical feminist statement? Sure Hillary is a woman but she's also Bill's stalking horse for a job he wants but can't have. Texas had a governor like that in the '20's, Ma Ferguson, whose husband was barred from re-election, so his wife ran. Same deal with the Clintons, if you ask me. I'm an anti-imperialist and had a poem printed in Chalmers Johnson's last book. Chal has the Clintons down as more dangerous as imperialists (because they're better at it) than either of the Bushes, so that's it for them, as far as I'm concerned.

by John Shreffler on Thu May 15th, 2008 at 08:45:08 AM EST

Re: Deep Thought (4.00 / 3)

Last comment on Chalmers assessment of the Clintons hits the target. Bill, with the help of conservative DLC Dems and Republicans, gave up all the trade agreements that gutted the working class. That's helped usher in the economic demise we see all around us.

by Bob In Pacifica on Thu May 15th, 2008 at 09:27:45 AM EST
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Re: Deep Thought (none / 1)

I found the poem

NEIGHBORHOOD GIRL
By John Shreffler

She's new to the neighborhood, her family just moved in
From Greece or somewhere, she's a great, tall, gawky girl
With braces and earrings and uneven skin:
Hormones and acne, her change is coming in,

And today, she's playing hooky. January fog.
Orange lights on the school zone sign beat out their tattoo
And caution the Homeland's socked-in morning rush
With their strobe-light samba: Condition Amber,

As she sits invisible, swinging her legs to the beat,
Perched up high on aluminum over
The uncanny Day-Glo of the key-lime fluorescence
That says: School at the top of this composition.

I see her and she lets me. I'm an old family friend:
Sometimes I play poker with her Aunt Erato.
Her name is Nemesis and she's just moved in,
She's new to the neighborhood, she's checking it out.

[Source: Chalmers Johnson, Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (Metropolitan Books, 2007), p. 282 n.16.]

by Cee on Thu May 15th, 2008 at 09:23:35 AM EST
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Re: Deep Thought (none / 0)

John Shreffler, your poem is magnificent. I was deeply impressed when I first read it in Nemesis The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson.

And, yes, I believe the goddess of divine justice and vengeance is checking us out. This is why I am recommending to my adult children that they move to New Zealand.

Relax, rejoice, go barefoot.

May joy and enthusiasm be with us always!

by Dongi 2 on Thu May 15th, 2008 at 09:31:55 AM EST
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Re: Deep Thought (none / 1)

Thanks all. I'm not any more vain than any other poet but I cherish this sub-thread and its kind words. I've been busting a gut pulling for something to make my poem moot since I wrote it 4 years ago. Perhaps Obama can help us pull it off. it's not too late, even now, though Bush and Cheney are working overtime to hit Iran and then Nemesis is gonna sing. Hope for the best.

by John Shreffler on Thu May 15th, 2008 at 10:25:48 AM EST
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