Slog - Comments on Obama, Japan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/obama_japan Barak Obama seems to be especially popular in the the ancient fishing village of Obama, Japan. Japanese 'Obama Girls' shout "Yes we can!" during a rally to support Barack Obama. Why for me Obama? Not for color or heritage. It has to do with Hegel's mystical (and more interesting) statements. My favorite of such statements concerns the Weltgeist. Writes Michael Löwy and Eleni Varikas in Radical Philosophy: The ideology of progress, born (in its modern guise) during the Enlightenment, finds its culminating philosophical expression in Hegel's conception of history. Here, everything that happens marks a further step in mankind's... Copyright 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:16:38 -0800 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:40:25 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by pbaitch I believe you're searching for "granfalloon."

]]> pbaitch http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/obama_japan#c1185626 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/obama_japan#c1185626 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:42:01 -0800 Comment by Barack Obama "But for sure he marks the realization of (or makes graspable) our situation, the global situation. With him we can abandoned such clumsy but once useful tools as cognitive mapping. Through the new spirit (or mood), the global is comprehend."

I've said it before, and I'll more than likely say it again:

Charles Mudede is absolutely fucking batshit insane.

]]> Barack Obama http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/obama_japan#c1185683 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/obama_japan#c1185683 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:04:05 -0800 Comment by j video, please, charles! i really wanted to click on that picture and see this with sound and motion..!

]]> j http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/obama_japan#c1185689 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/obama_japan#c1185689 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:05:46 -0800 Comment by brian holy fuck charles what's with the spam-mail style grammar? jesus fucking christ dude. this post makes ZERO sense

]]> brian http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/obama_japan#c1185704 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/obama_japan#c1185704 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:13:20 -0800 Comment by Joe M In addition to that whole weltgeist argument, Obama's health care proposal is much better than McCain's.

]]> Joe M http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/obama_japan#c1185730 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/obama_japan#c1185730 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:30:21 -0800 Comment by max solomon charles, TODAY he embodies a weltgeist. january 20th, he will be mortal, fallable, and dissappointing in some way to everyone's expectations. he is a politician, and america's fucked-upness is beyond the reach of any two presidential terms to repair. in 2016, we will not feel he is the weltgeist. or the heilegeist. or the weltschmertz.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/obama_japan#c1185742 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/obama_japan#c1185742 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:42:53 -0800 Comment by Jesus Christ Jesus Christ is not Barack Obama. Also: Jesus. Christ. Charles. Gramatically confused, philosophically without meaning, and, in terms of convincing people both that Obama is a leader and you're not batshit, this is also tactically a total rhetorical failure.

You batshit motherfucker.

]]> Jesus Christ http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/obama_japan#c1185762 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/obama_japan#c1185762 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:59:11 -0800 Comment by Toe Tag Chris Steele-Perkins has the village of Obama covered:

http://insight.magnumphotos.com/insight/japan

]]> Toe Tag http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/obama_japan#c1185834 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/obama_japan#c1185834 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:44:31 -0800 Comment by Matt in Southampton Get some sleep, Charles. (Loved "Zoo" by the way)

]]> Matt in Southampton http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/obama_japan#c1187654 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/obama_japan#c1187654 2008 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:40:25 -0800