Comments on The New Spirit of Power

Bill would be the Holy Ghost of which you speak.

BILL!

Charles Mudede, you are the most mystical human being I know. I look forward to your book on the alchemy of politics.

Negative space as presidential ticket. Nice.

Uh huh.

Excellent post, Charles. But, in that context, unfortunately I also agree with @1 & @2. Bill is the unseen white male overseer.

i'm tired of negative space campaign advertisements.

In the words of my cab driver during, of course, the war and peaking gas prices: "Where's Bill Clinton"?

I would guess that Charles was totally baked when he wrote this...

OR... Clinton + Obama = Shirley Chisholm.

i'm pretty sure hillary has a penis. maybe two. sadly, at least one of them is a puerto rican jew.

Clinton + Obama + Jesse Jackson = Shirley Q Liquir

I actually lol'ed at this. oh mudede

"Because this kind of thinking does not find itself isolated in the head of a dying (or dead) dictator on an impoverished island state, but has serious currency everywhere, including the U.S., it needs to be examined. "

fuck you and your leading statements; "it needs to be examined"?

an authoritarian dictator has ideas about democracy despite never having to actually face it or operate within it. his ideas about winning tickets is null and void.

Oh this is beautiful

and secondly, your idiotic race baiting political alchemy is sad.

Best post in a while, Charles. I don't know where in that strange mind of yours you come up with this shit, but this is why I *heart* you.

I would launch into a lecture about trinitarian theology but it's not worth it. Bad analogy, Charles, but interesting thought in the end. If I'd skipped over the middle paragraph, I would call this genius.

I AM JESUS! I am the stain that came to life, yes, I am the ghost.

That photo is awesome! It captures an an essense of something.

rolling along w/ #10
Hillary negates Barack’s maleness; Barack negates Hillary’s whiteness ... this sounds like a conservative fundamentalist's worst nightmare

Why can't it be that Obama negates Hilary's race, and She negates his sex.

Maybe your "Holy Ghost" is a black woman.

rolling along w/ #21:
yeah it fits into thier fear of the blurring of the lines that, to them, define existence; like gender, race, assured moral certainty, and social class...

it is their gray goo; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo
that slippery slope away from strict dogma and into the abyss of reality based thinking and life. but hey thats fundies for ya :)

--hipsterlite

Wow, all I did was read the last sentence of this post, and was like "this has to be a Charles post".

So, I think you definately have refined your style. So instantly recognizable. That is a hard feat for a writer. Bravo.

America is very racist. Electing a woman and a black man to lead America would be the most racist thing that ever happened.

If only America would be come like Israel a secular nation free of religion or racism the world would be a better place.

@22, you're now my hero of the day. Nicely done

@25, there are so many twists of irony in your post, I can't tell what you're actually trying to say!

No. 22: So if it isn't Bill Clinton, it's Oprah?

"Maybe your "Holy Ghost" is a black woman"
could it be Oprah?? perhaps, or Queen Latifah, or Gwen Ifill, Pam Grier, Venus and/or Serena, Wanda Sykes, or Maxine Waters... ohhh the possibilities of the H.G. being a S.B.W....
but please let it not be condi!!

---hipsterlite

"Hooolyyy Ghooost......Hooolyy Ghooost....."
"Holy Ghost, this is not an episode of Scooby Doo".

Anyone know where that came from?

@28 and 29... Oprah? NO!!
But seriously... isn't it interesting that Michelle Obama isn't mentioned in these comments?
Hmmm...the white male and the black woman who are "there but not there". Bill and Michelle. Now we're onto something.
ooohhhh.....deep.

e.j. you are on to something. that is a breakthrough. the ghosts of bill and michelle need consideration.

e.j.:
well Oprah does have a lot of power and seems to wield in somewhat spooky ways over the drugged out middle aged women that are her minions; it's really not a stretch.. [spooky voice] OOOprahh, OOOOprah [/spooky voice]

--hipsterlite

Normally Mudede's writings are my favorite amongst those of The Stranger's staff, but this one falls short. This post discounts the opinions of all the citizens that support either candidate without regard to their ancestry or sex (the physical aspect different form the social construct of gender, which some may try to argue would make Hillary male). I'm a little disappointed.

aerosol, Charles postulating on the subtext doesn't negate the text. Saying Georgia O'Keefe's flower paintings are really supposed to be labia doesn't negate the views of people who look at those paintings and thing "what beautiful flowers." Both can be right on different levels, can't they?

Oh my Lords, just think of the potential porno spinoffs a Oboma/Clinton presidency will produce?

Big Sven @35,

I agree: it does not negate the text. But the implication is that many US citizens may have duplicated Castro's "logic" does, I feel, by omission of alternatives, discounts those who do not share the need for a white and male president. That's why I used the word "discounts."