On March 20, 2009 Earnest Borg9 said:
Rosencrantz, this is an excellent piece to drop in the first hundred days. I would also recommend you perpetuate this as a Category – Continuities. You could do Continuities2 in July and measure the rate of swing of the pendulum – if it is in fact swinging. Excellent work here.
I was thinking also that it is interesting that we are now clearly seeing the effect of what M.T. Karthik first called The Television Presidency in candidacy.
Obama is really a lot like Schwarzenegger … or Reagan before them. He’s trained to be good on TV and move easily in front of the camera.
And so we note at last, a clear distinction to educate U.S. Americans to:
The Republicans cannot get ‘intelligent, caring’ people within their ranks to want to be public servants and look good on tv doing it, so have turned to athletes, actors and etc. who learn rote propaganda but grow excellent at expressing themselves on TV – physical specimens of a certain aesthetic.
The Democrats, meanwhile, ‘grow’ their ‘intelligent, caring, educated sons and daughters into good-for-tv candidates – and Obama is just exactly that. They then surround their homegrown ‘intellectual’ (Obama, Gore, Clinton, favored sons of the standard 20th century Democratic Party Liberalism) into people who can do it well on TV – eliminating anyone expressing real reform or change along the way.
Obama has learned this exceptionally well – he’s the best of his class of students at this. And it is being credited literally to his being black (tucked in here is the bigotry that produced “He’s so well-spoken”).
The mythmaking around Obama is thus, safely, mythmaking about USA. and everyone in business can get behind it.
If we want real reform of scale of the United States, we must deny this mythmaking, dump 20th century, pre-digital ideas of USA and remake her in the image of our new constitution.
excellent work, Rosencrantz. Earnest Borg9 bows.

On March 21, 2009 PCB said:
I’m glad you’re here, Rovalones, to summarize all of this in one place. It takes effort, for me at least, not to be sucked in by the Obama charisma. Is Borg9 really MTK in disguise? Either way, his comment was also enlightening. Word, son.