[lbo-talk] Poll: Majority Of Republicans Think Obama Didn't

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Carrol Cox :
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Bertell Ollman gave a very interesting paper at Amherst on the
importance of the Flag to American nationalism. (He mentioned a joke
re the Pledge of Allegiance: "I pldge allegiance to the country and to
the flag for which it stands.") I can't remember the details, but his
core point was that the flag was fetishized, but its meaning was given
to the nation (or at least to the full-bodied nationalists) by the
President. And now they were in a real bind: The Meaning of the flag
was being represented by a Black Man.
Carrol

^^^^^^^
CB: Yea, the right wing has a real semiotical quandry..

I'm toying with the question "Is the white power structure really
allowing Obama to be President ?" , not in the sense that he didn't
really win the election, but in the sense that they wouldn't accept
him having the final say as Commander-in-Chief.  If the extreme
rightwing of the military-industrial-complex/National security state
wouldn't let Kennedy be President for some very mild softness on
Communism, would it really let a Black man be President, even as he
occupies the White House ?

The great proletarian leader Dave Moore
(http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism-thaxis/2009-November/024749.html)
said when Obama was elected , "I can't believe it. Am I dead or
dreaming ?  A Black man is President of the United States ! "