The Fog of More
Clarity, as anybody trying to practice Dharma knows, is mighty hard to come by. But I somehow had a small Eureka! moment last week, a putting of two and two together that added up to something I’d like to share.
An endless and endlessly crude political race to the bottom, through the bottom line, continues to dominate the news even though it flies in the face and splats on the facts and frustrations of the country. And while people are literally screaming in pain for the social justice of economic and educational opportunity, along with a little rule of law in financial matters like mortgages and credit cards, nothing about this vicious spin of Samsara has been more puzzling than the ambivalent, uncompassionate silence of Barack Obama. Why is there no "their" there?
Well, although nobody else seems to have noticed, a few weeks ago he actually did clear the air about why he doesn't care and there is no they're there. With his wife Michelle Marie Antoinette off skiing in Colorado while ordinary working people protested for their pay, he bid public farewell to his friend and press secretary, Robert Gibbs, a man who laundered and spun rinse cycles as he protested professionally for the pay of $192,000 a year. Since that would pay three firemen to really put out fires or four teachers to set children straight—and they have to fight for the pittance now, we need to note that in his friendly send-off for Gibbs, Obama flipped us all the bird with this bit of flippancy: “Now he can go make some real money.”
Does that clear up the fog of this President’s view for you?
~Sandy Garson"Wordsmithing to attest how the Dharma saved me from myself!"
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