Change vs. The Ubiquitous Conformity of American Life

Yeah well Rolling Stone the super-large used-to-be-a-cult-magazine likes Obama like a lot. They practically ordered the youth to vote for him. I doubt that America's redoubtable musical youth-cult members will vote according to any else's desires. But the implication here is that the Rolling Monolith would, natch, like to play its part to take on that awesum burden of ordering kids around. You get the idea. The Rolling Stone has gotten so big by now that cannot roll unless lubricated on the bodies of squashed kids.
So twitter me on my grammar.

Rolling Mothball, how many ways can I roll thee? How much freedom does he have? Is Obama a real choice? Oh I guess I am trying to say does he have one - a choice - real choice - does he have that? ...or is he bound by some kind of conformity? Where are those rubber baby buggy bumper boundaries? OK. I read a thing about Barrack Obama recently (and I would have voted for him, but I was out of town that day) to where he was about 24 or 25 o something and was saying happy of being associated with Harvard University or Harvard Law Rev. for it gives him a foundation, from which to express and activate, etc. As his basis or something. It would, Barrack O. said, give him a base, a more solid foundation to where he can be able to do thingamajigs or perform activisms --- activism, maybe? His cred or his base. It's true that you need a little cred to do things. And you do need to be a citizen to run for president. What he is saying, smartly and truly (and well, I like that), is that he can swing his bat from Harvard yard a bit better --- or from the Law Review (the editorship of which, from the newstand magazine's piece I read could require up to sixty hours a week -yeah; right --- with or without the guy's homework burden we'll never know) --- and "land on his feet." OK so if I have a pin with an eye on one end, and this is hooked around the eye of a similar pin stuck in the foundation of the ground then the pin can swivel. But it can't really move from that place into which it is stuck in the ground. How much freedom then does Barrack Obama really have? The question again: Is it a real choice or is it conformity? To continue with the initial metaphorical language involving balls and stones, Barrack is like a big polished steel ball. The ball is well-polished, and presumably, it can roll somewhere. It goes beyond marketing; he isn't a product. He is a political officer I suppose. Oh I mean official. Sorry. Typo. He isn't "market," is not a glossy magazine, that is just a commercial thing. That is something that made its way into the rack along side the Betty Crocker recipes. This is something political and there has got to be some distinction. Although campaigning may be a little like commerce -- it has competition for dollars in it -- once one is actually elected then he is going to be there for four years. Well, no. All kinds of things could happen. I think we would be shocked if he were killed right now. So they'll probably let him live, for now.
My question, basically, is: how much will he actually change as regards the parts of the system that may need reform? Will he still maneauver within the limited space of social conformity or will he give us the change we need?

He may not know himself. Another thing the newstand book said (did I mention that that article was off the supermarket newstand? It was a Time-Life book. I think so.) -- is that the man has a trait of being restless and switching abruptly from one thing to another.
I think this part here gives us some information: "But he got restless, a condition he describes as "chronic" (and critics say implies unreliability)."

How much can one "change" vs. how much is one obliged to conform...


[The American Journey of Barack.... ; by the editors of LIFE ; 2008]