Pods on Parade.

Cinie is proving an invaluable writer in these weird times. With Ding! Dong! Obot Calling! she hits it out of the park.

Have you had the thrill of an Obamaniac, clipboard in hand, goofy, KoolAid addled, Hoover vac salesman smile plastered across their too-eager, hopey-changey face, happily dingdonging your doorbell like a days-gone-by Avon Lady or modern-day teenage religious missionary, earnestly selling rainbows and half-price Unity pony rides?

As any of us unfortunate enough to still be on the Obama campaign's email list (Why are they still emailing me? ME! Who has called Obama "toxic" right here on the World Wide Web.) knows Obama's cult is trying to rally his minions to get out and hector the rest of us to sign pledge cards (acceptable, but still creepy.) in support of THE ONE's agenda...whatever it is today. I have not been hectored yet - but, boy howdy, am I looking forward to it. I suspect one question like :
"Now, tell me, why do you think cap and trade is a good idea? I'd like to hear your side.", and the Obama pod will disintegrate in a gurgling heap. This will give me great joy - and not a little nostalgia for 2008.

I further imagine I can garner a huffy "You must be a racist." with a mere two or three more questions. Will The Prez be making regular appearances on chat shows? Perhaps Mr Holder can argue Gitmo cases before Judge Judy. I am hoping that before I sign this card you might explain why shitty banks should get 1 trillion more in magic, freshly printed dollars?

Last year it was always so easy to make Pod heads explode. Too easy, really. The intellectual capacity of the most fervent Pods was always weak.

On its face I have little problem with this part of the permanent campaign. I doubt el Presidente has occupied a millisecond of thinking about it. At least I hope not. People out in the streets canvassing for something they believe in is a good thing in a democracy. The trouble is, of course, it is painfully apparent that what these types believe in is not an idea, or a set of principles, but a person. It's not like any of Obama's ideas are , in fact, his. The push here - like BHO's perpetual incursions into popular culture, that is: TV - is to keep the ONE present everywhere. The pods on the streets don't know or care about policy. Or politics for that matter. They care about refurbishing their delusions. Like me wanting a little nostalgia hit from last year - they, too, want to believe that what they got all gooey about - lives on. Of course, what lives on is Saul Alinsky.

I could work up a rant here - but I suspect this project will fail. The vast majority of the most engaged pods were in it to smugly prove a point. "Look what we elected!" Last month Obama's peeps tried this trick with house parties supporting the stimulus bill and participation was next to nil. Besides, blowback is everywhere. It is one thing to defend a candidate with delusions, "hope", and screams of racism. It is quite another for a Pod to willingly put himself out side a grocery store to endure snarking comments about Obama being a con man. Most of us know the campaign is over - even if the pods do not.