1. Obama, Spirit, And The Spirit Of Obama
“Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, And saying, The TIME IS FULFILLED, and the KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND: REPENT YE, and BELIEVE the GOSPEL.” [Mark 1:14-15]
Before beginning, I must apologize to those who might see the following as incredibly Hegelian in spirit. I admit that I cannot prove that Barack Obama campaign’s inevitable success was fatefully predetermined by the rational development and unfolding of the Absolute Spirit (though one could feasibly make the case). Yet one cannot deny that, from the beginning, the Barack Obama movement has been so seemingly unstoppable, as to appear to be an event which is historically and dialectically necessary. The Messianic and theological connotations associated with the great, historical Obama campaign have transformed it into something transcendent and mystical. The divine and spiritual forces that, by all appearances, have been driving the Cult of Obama has drawn disciples through the Gospel of giving people HOPE for CHANGE. “THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND!” Much like the mustard seed which Jesus spoke of, Our Savior Barack Obama has planted a small seed of optimism and faith in the future in the minds of the American public which has grown into the enormously powerful Obama movement. Despite all these physical, spiritual, political, and historical forces acting against her, Hillary Clinton decided to be, depending on how one interprets her actions, either the Supreme Revolutionary or the Supreme Egoist [or both!!] by choosing to stay in the race and fight Our Lord Barack Christ, Spirit, and History.
“It is the same with all great historical individuals: their own particular purposes contain the substantial will of the World Spirit. They must be called “heroes,” insofar as they have derived their purpose and vocation not from the calm, regular course of things, sanctioned by the existing order, but from a secret source whose content is still hidden and has not yet broken through into existence. The source of their actions is the inner spirit, still hidden beneath the surface but already knocking against the outer world as against a shell, in order, finally, to burst forth and break it into pieces; for it is a kernel different from that which belongs to the shell. They are men, therefore, who appear to draw the impulses of their lives from themselves. Their deeds have produced a condition of things and a complex of historical relations that appear to be their own interest and their own work. Such individuals have no consciousness of the Idea as such. They are practical and political men. But at the same time they are thinkers with insight into what is needed and timely. They see the very truth of their age and their world, the next genus, so to speak, which is already formed in the womb of time. It is theirs to know this new universal, the necessary next stage of their world, to make it their own aim and put all their energy into it. The world-historical persons, the heroes of their age, must therefore be recognized as its seers – their words and deeds are the best of the age. Great men have worked for their own satisfaction and not that of others. Whatever prudent designs and well-meant counsels they might have gotten from others would have been limited and inappropriate under the circumstances. For it is they who knew best and from whom the others eventually learned and with whom they agreed or, at least, complied. For Spirit, in taking this new historical step, is the innermost soul of all individuals – but in a state of unconsciousness, which the great men arouse to consciousness. For this reason their fellow men follow these soul-leaders, they stream to their banner. For they feel the irresistible power of their own spirit embodied in them.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
2. To Wrestle With Fate
“OUR WILLS and FATES do so contrary run
That our devices still are overthrown;
Our THOUGHTS are OURS, their ENDS none of our own.” - William Shakespeare
Hillary, though powerless against the powers that be, chose to strike out, like a cornered animal, against Barack Obama with the now infamous “kitchen sink” strategy. She refused to explicitly refute the allegations that Obama The Redeemer Of White Guilt is a crypto-Muslim. She tried to accuse Our Holy Shepherd Obama of being tied to past illegal actions in association with Chicago slumlords. Geraldine Ferraro claimed that Barack Obama’s blackness, which itself was in question not more than a few months prior, was the main factor in his success. Bill Clinton condescendingly compared Barack Obama’s campaign to Jesse Jackson’s past presidential campaign after Obama’s win in the South Carolina primary. Hillary, all the while, continued to loudly and obnoxiously make the case that Barack’s rhetoric was vacuous, that he was inexperienced, that he couldn’t win over white, working class voters. Her campaign referred to Bill Richardson as a “Judas” for even daring to support Obama.(OH THE IRONY!) She spit in the face of left-wing site MoveOn.org, a site originally created in support of her husband Bill during the worst times of his administration, only then to turn around and embraced the conservative media hitmen at Fox News and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, two media outlets which played large roles in the slandering and impeachment of her husband. She slammed Barack over the Jeremiah Wright fiasco and milked it for all it was worth. She brushed off calls for her to end her campaign despite the damn-near mathematical impossibility of her victory. And one need not even doubt her purely egoistic reasons for her flip-flop concerning the primaries in Michigan and Florida.
“WHAT FATES IMPOSE, that men MUST needs abide;
It BOOTS NOT to RESIST both wind and tide.”
-William Shakespeare
Once she had witnessed Barack transcend the merely physical realm of politics, she then desired to get a firm, metaphysical grasp of fate and change it in accordance with her will in a way that was both heroic and villainous. No matter what happened, she would not stay down for the count. But now, her campaign has fallen yet again, the referee is counting, and the crowd is chanting Obama’s name. This trivial yet significant Hillary misstatement has become a media spectacle which has been owed by fate to Hillary for quite a while. Some have even gone so far as to predict this gaffe to be the end of her political career. Spirit is as it is because of what was and the individual will cannot fight it. Hillary’s metaphysical rebellion is admirable, but the development of the dialectic is inevitable. And while we should try to follow her example in rebelling against History and/or Spirit, we, unlike Hillary, should never forget Amor Fati. Her resentment towards Our Messiah Barack Obama over a presidential term that she feels is owed to her has made itself fairly conspicuous. Hillary’s campaign is a comic tragedy that even the Ancient Greeks would praise. The once proud, arrogant, elitist, and hubris-filled Hillary Clinton was painfully taken down from the mantle she occupied within the establishment by The Moirae. And thankfully, whether she knows it or not, Hillary Clinton’s heretical campaign has died and all because of a reference to history. (OH THE IRONY!) And all that is left, is to follow Our Lord and Savior Barack Obama into a New Testament of American history, into the New Jerusalem, into the Kingdom of God!
Jesus said unto him, LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD: but GO thou and PREACH the KINGDOM OF GOD. [Luke 9:60]
