Obama (the basic idea was sketched out upon arising Tuesday)

OK now let me get this straight in my head. The idea is that he is leader or chief executive or something. Is that it? He is the president? OK. So then what is really a president?

I think after Bush we should really go over this again. Bush and Cheney never had any intention of doing the job as it must be done. Their way of doing things can be summed up: ideological and extreme. Enough said. I think that, deep down, we were probably intimidated by them. This is something we should all 'fess up to.

The man called Bush, he seduced us into allowing a nasty little group of persons into the halls, corridors and offices or whatever -- of power. He seduced the bourgeoise – this is fairly easy, they are fairly easygoing persons – and he also used the support he got at the polling places from the conservative section of the working class. That’s cultural. He used those things to get pretty close to a majority – a majority only out of those who bothered or were able to vote -- Some in Florida had their votes blocked -- and then he stole the rest. That’s the blogging truth.

So what is a president? How is all this stuff supposed to work? – this is to say when it works in a reasonable and inclusive fashion: in a way that accords with what Fukuyama calls liberal democracy. (Yeah, I bought a journal, of “democracy” the other day, at B&Noble.) He says you are supposed to have “juridical” and “political equality.” B&Che were certainly not in favor of that, so, natch, I don’t think they stood for “liberal” democracy.

Yep, that seems to jibe with what I read from Frances “Fuk-u-ya.” I speak truth. I only shortened it and added a few hyphens!

But, anyway, it’s not Fukuya-guy who is president now. It is a representative of us: the people. Well I mean YEAH, WE VOTED HIM IN DIDN’T WE?