THUNDEROUS CERTITUDE
AND RIGHTEOUS RECTITUDE!
"On any other day, count me with the contrarians. Count me, on any other day, with the provocateurs, the losers, the indecent, the ironists, the elitists, the outsiders, the anti-populists, and with perverse gods of sarcasm and perpetual despair. But not today. Today I'm not a Momus but a person who stands together with the vast undifferentiated mass of people, not just in America but all over the world, who have a single, simple, fervent wish, hope and desire: that this man should become the next president of the United States of America. By some fluke, freak, or piece of incredibly lucky fortune, a good, intelligent, sane, enlightened, cosmopolitan and potentially great man has come to the fore in American politics, perhaps as much despite the system as because of it. All the evidence suggests that he will win this election, perhaps as much despite the conservatism of the American electorate as because of it. It feels wonderful, for once, to be so unoriginal, to be lost in this enormous planetary crowd and to share this crowd's wishes, its excitement, its probable coming delight. This, at last, is our prodigal moment, the moment when it all starts swinging back our way.
I'm not an American, though I do write for an American paper -- the American "paper of record", and the paper the Republicans despise more than any other. I don't have a vote in this election, but I certainly have a stake in its outcome, as does the entire world. At a crucial moment in history, the stakes could hardly be higher. Like everyone else I know, I like this man. I want this man to win a great victory, and return America -- as much as any single man can, with the will of the world behind him and the wind filling his sails -- to the place of honour and standing and decency it has so sadly and signally lost over the course of these last eight appalling, disgraceful, banal, toxic, tortuous, murderous and war-mongering years, years in which that exemplary Enlightenment document, the American Constitution, has been mocked, menaced and mangled. I say it without a trace of irony, a smidgen of decadence, or a whiff of doubt: Viva Barack Hussein Obama -- may the land truly slide for you today! Americans, do the right thing and elect this excellent candidate with thunderous certitude and righteous rectitude. And tomorrow, let a better era begin". (aqui)
(2008)
7 comments:
A questão é: como vamos sobreviver sem a Palin?
We'll always have Santana.
ahahahaaha!
mas nós temos uma Palin à nossa medida: chama-se sarah de lurdes rodrigues. É certo que é mais enjoada e pre-menstruada do que a outra, mas igualmente puritana, moralista, 'iluminada' e decidida a terminar desperdicios como as investigações cietíficas nas moscas da fruta (ninharias, claro, onde os contribuintes gastam fortunas para quê? ter fruta melhor? Ora...) Além isso, vem sempre acompanhada de dois red-necks à portuguesa: chamam-se Walter Lemois e George Macpedreira. O texas com eles! Respirar-se-ia muito melhor nesta latrina.
Ò cd... o meu amor pela Lulu é lendário... mas, ao pé da Sara Paula, ela é, de certeza, uma cidadã civilizadíssima, cultíssima, avançadíssima e esclarecidíssima.
Errata: eu não disse nada do que disse no comentário anterior.
Pois, hummm... "civilizadíssima, cultíssima e avançadíssima" não diria que é, nem comparada com o alberto joão jardim, as masmorras do forte de peniche ou margarida moreira... mas, está bem, admito que, ao pé da sara paula, esteja, sim, uns furos de cinta acima... claro que está, seria difícil não estar; não é comparável, aceito... agora, daí a adjectiva-la com 'civilização' e 'cultura' no superlativo só pode ir a distância que vai de um pólo ao outro... Nem a sara paula converte gelatina em caviar...
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