Time Immortal

Robert Ferrigno turns in a rather heartbreaking piece of creative writing concerning the fate of Bill Clinton in a world in which Barrack Hussein Obama has won the presidential election.

I realize that as a Canadian, any thoughts I have about the coming American election are worth less than a pitcher of warm spit, but I’d still like to note that I’m really not that impressed with Obama. That’s not to say that I’m impressed with John McCain or Hillary Rodham Clinton, either…but Obama just grates on my nerves. And not just because he has only ever voted in support of abortion (even partial birth abortion) when the subject has come up in the House.

He seems more or less totally disconnected from the majority of the American people — fretting about the price of arugula at Whole Foods (the American version of Planet Organic, if I understand it correctly) doesn’t exactly relate one to the run-of-the-mill Yank who is worrying about the fact that Rice Krispies cost more than they did a week ago. In fact, the disconnect is so great (his wife is on record fretting about how hard it is to make ends meet on a combined income of nearly $400,000 a year!) that it almost seems plausible that he would appoint someone like Clinton as an “Ambassador to the Heartland”, as per Ferrigno’s fiction piece. As Mark Steyn notes, for Obama, the American Heartland might as well be a different country.

(The Nose on Your Face has a great parody up concerning this.)

Then, of course, there’s the race issue. This has been an interesting presidential primary to watch, given that the three candidates are a white male, a white female, and a black male; identity politics has played a huge role in the progress of the primaries, and especially in Obama’s campaign. And that, I think, is perhaps the most unfortunate aspect of his campaign to date. As others have noted, if a person votes for Obama in part because he is black, that person is a racist. And Obama’s own approach to the issue has been…strange; I read through the speech he gave in the wake of the Jeremiah Wright affair and felt vaguely offended by it.

And then there’s the hagiography and secular messianism that seem to follow Obama’s campaign wherever it goes. Many pundits have taken to calling him the “Son of God,” and for good reason — based on the way many of his supporters depict him, you’d think he was.

Anyone else get a sense of impending disaster at the thought of an Obama presidency?