tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221833.post6125092872251191836..comments2023-09-27T15:00:37.453+00:00Comments on ombion: Abraham ObamaDemetrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15014652198168448079noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221833.post-5142515760246206212008-11-10T16:53:00.000+00:002008-11-10T16:53:00.000+00:00*found* this today.http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2...*found* this today.<BR/><BR/><BR/>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/11/17/081117ta_talk_woodAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221833.post-2822098902091360102008-11-09T22:47:00.000+00:002008-11-09T22:47:00.000+00:00The singularity, undoubtedly, is the fact that the...The singularity, undoubtedly, is the fact that there will only be one forty-forth president, namely Barack Obama. Regardless of analytic toolbox or race. The same person may as well be elected as the 45th president of the U.S.A. This will not take away form the singularity of any event. As far as the historic affiliations of the event itself I argue that they lie within the -agreed upon- context Demetrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15014652198168448079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221833.post-65713466972322985572008-11-08T17:27:00.000+00:002008-11-08T17:27:00.000+00:00I'm nitpicking here, but seeing Obama through thro...I'm nitpicking here, but seeing Obama through through "U.S. religiosity", what does remain from the *singularity* of this historic event?<BR/><BR/>I agree that this relgiosity is in fact the context that Obama should be placed, but by dong so, aren't we essentially abandoning european tools and chosing instead to use U.S. political toolcase which is always (already?) used in their political Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221833.post-56941405059438572102008-11-06T19:33:00.000+00:002008-11-06T19:33:00.000+00:00I used you as a closer to us example of the briefl...I used you as a closer to us example of the briefly noted 'cautions' towards Obama, influenced by a Marxist context of economics in relationship to his global outlook. Was that not what you were pointing to?<BR/><BR/> I believe it is not through the classical spectrum of political analysis that one must view the elections (be it Marx or Groucho) and in extenso their future but through the Demetrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15014652198168448079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221833.post-11995826203615159202008-11-06T16:09:00.000+00:002008-11-06T16:09:00.000+00:00invocation of Marx vis-à-vis the future...it had n...invocation of Marx vis-à-vis the future...<BR/><BR/>it had nothing to do with this, it was just an account of the elections from a Marxist (theoretical aka "not soviet") point of view..<BR/><BR/>and i didn't even mention revolution :)iordanouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12331985079637542558noreply@blogger.com