2008-11-30
2008-11-15
yes, they wanted us to be able to.
As an indicator of how remarkable this recent public coronation has been, you can now buy Obama T-shirts in the Midtown tourist stores, right next to the I ♥ New York shot glasses, miniature glass Empire State Buildings and yellow cab keychains. Now even the tourists want to bring home a souvenir of this remarkable event.
Although: I am starting to worry that our projection of goodness onto our next leader (and C-in-C, as we were constantly reminded with 43) is swerving into a Riefenstahlian direction. This adjective, paired with "obama," is already scoring 170 results on the Google. It's not quite yet on par with the descent from an aircraft (Junkers 52 or Lockheed S-3B Viking), but I doff my hat to this kind of impressive media machinery, especially if it touches the folks who aren't smarter than a fifth grader.
How fitting, then, that a recent ESPN commercial celebrates Mondays by railing against your institution's "'fascist attendance policy'." There is no ironicon yet to punctuate the previous sentence.
