Obama Waits to Win: The Mirror Stage

May 25: Raleigh, North Carolina The mirror stage is a drama whose internal thrust is precitpitated from insufficency to anticipation..- (GD, quoting his former colleague Jacques Lacan)

Notre Dame de Indiana

May 6: Reynolds, Indiana. One observes the anthromorphizing of Hillary with mild amusement at its synchronous sangfroid; that is to say, her CNN-heralded masculanization arrives , without coincidence, in the midst of the rhetorical lynching of Wright (the media-decapitation of the dangerous black phallus) with its concomitant muffling of Obama's virile "oui nous pouvons", suffused as his "skinny" body has been with the contortions [rhetorical handcuffs/bindings] of quasi-apology and recrimination while Billary's phallus extends (pun intended) into/through a public raping of others, cf the repeated (though fictional) "muzzling" of her husband Bill Clinton, the North Carolina governor's homophobic quip that she "makes Rocky Balboa seem like a pansy" (with its implicit castration of that pugilistic Philadelphian Pennsylavanian Yankee uder-Phallus) and her atomic bomb invocation of Harry Truman's mantra vis a vis Obama must sortir de la cuisine chaude (addressed to a feminized Obama) into the more recently proposed "obliteration" [s'effacer] of the entire nation of Iran, with its implied erotic humiliation of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Thus having become a military General Hillary 9/11 Clinton, she sublimates the fascist ethos of two gruesome American phalli (Giuliani and Cheney) into her own body, thus the American Rambo re-emerges as "electable" due to its disguise in floral colored ensemble and blonde coif (cf Margaret "H-Block" Thatcher).

Reverend Wright-Wrong: Bien et Mal

May 1: Miami, Florida
Now the grainy, amateur, hand-held Youtube video of Rev Wright (master of ceremony, in blousy white gown, oddly obverse of KKK grand wizard) takes its scary place alongside the Zapruder film and 9/11 plane video, an American nightmare-come-true, mise en abyme replayed as if to justify white paranoia, the pastor’s arm swinging, his hand bearing down on middle American living rooms (literally, as it is played over and over on CNN, Fox ,et al) into/onto the American dream (“God bless us”) to its penetration/repudiation [refuser d’honner] by Wright’s catastrophic gesticulation (single bullet/Kennedy, second plane/south tower, black hand/American dream) voiced into an explosive “Goddamned America!”, the Reverend now media-canonized among other manufactured (fabriquer) American Satans (Oswald, Osama, Obama), coupled with the unacceptable signification of a black preacher (Jesus/God-as-le nègre terrible). Thus, the homophonic Obama-Osama is actualized into a present terror, ironically, for even as the swiftboating of the “Islamic Barack” (boat, bark, disembark, dis-embarack) recedes, it is replaced by a definitive Christianization of Obama that is at once his condemnation, for he is now a black phallic father, leading to a media-evangelized retreat toward Hillary-as-Mother Mary/Catholic working class savior (“she might be more electable, come the fall”)

Guys Gets Roughed up in Pennsylvania Bar

April 19: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania In this "state of independence" the observer of American politics meets his linguistic no-man’s land, for there are not words in the French language quiet equal to the American paranoid's habits of this clinging (as to bowling balls, to Big Macs, to all that is compulsively American). That is to say, here in Pennsylvania coal country, I have been un homme qui perdit, and, so duly de-centered, I entered a local bistro named “Max's Big Bang & Brews” to find out whether, in fact, I might get a Greyhound bus back to civilisation-propre, and also, alas to uncover (that is to say, metaphorically, for one always uncovers that which is exposed, uncovering becoming a coming-into-consciousness not a transforming-of-the already-is) whether the local proletariat were in fact se cramponnant aux fusils et à la religion ...alas, the locals continuously changed the subject from Hillary’s Iraq policy to my opinions of Hitler, which is to say, Billy, the beer bellied videur de Max’s Big Bang & Brews, told me, in no uncertain terms, that to him the French were, as he put it (though their odd pronunciation eluded me) “a bunch of palsies,” or perhaps it was “a batch of panzeees,” and as I do not know this expression “panzeees,” Monsieur Billy explained by pointing to his boot and then stomping the sawdust floor, repeatedly, declaring, “Dat dere, under my boot, my French Friend, is exa-ct-ly wh-e-re you Frenchies would be against the krawts, if my fahhhther and this guy’s fahhhther hadnt saved your foie gras asses on D-Day,” he then proceeded to shove me violently out of the bistro and onto the cement promenade.... Thus my explication de texte pennyslvanienne, as it were, was brutally cut short, bruised, guttered, evicted, exiled, and finally, rendered as indeterminate as another Zogby poll. As I stood on my own two feet, dusting myself off, I spied an Obama poster onto which someone had drawn a holstered gun....a peculiar signifié (black man armed with gun in small white town: that showdown that America most fears) which convinced me all the more, that I would do well to get back to the gun-free Sorbonne as soon as this American primary (that is to say, this endless myth of beginning) is over.*

Hillary's Rosy Crucifixtion

March 24: Chicago, Illinois Here we read Hillary inscribed by the bald angry evangelist St Peter/James Carville into her Gethsemane, she now the new messianic Democrat, a femininized Christ-Clinton (already himself “crucified” for Lewinsky) sold out to the Obamian empire by this New Mexican Judas, a Semitized, bearded Bill Richardson , complete with the implicit Carvillean suggestion that he ought to (now) like Judas, hang himself for this betrayal. -Guy de Languedoc, from Changement: Dépêches de la saison primaire

Guy de Languedoc Interviewed by CNN on eve of Ohio Primary

March 4 Youngstown, Ohio
CNN: Guy, now, until very recently, your own country was known for its more tolerant view of politicians’ private lives; so what do you think of Hillary Clinton as we go into this final contest?

GD: Wolf, your insistence on the word “contest” is peculiarly American, suggesting a quest for some unnameable prize, its identity and worth remains a national secret, an unknown, that to say, a taboo presented as a sport.

CNN: Let’s leave the steroids controversy out of this, Jacques; what did you think of Hillary’s speech here in Cleveland?

GD: Well, Wolf, I am puzzled by her posture of presumed immediacy ("I'm so ready!") dressed in fascist clothing ("to be commander in chief on day one!".

CNN: I’m sorry, but are you comparing Hillary Clinton to the fascists, to the Nazis? A lot of people in our viewing audience would be offended...

GD: What I am saying is her discourse of preparedness is a ritualized self-coronation. But this coronation is preempted by the Obamian hand and forefinger which marks out for itself a revolutionary ‘now-ness’ that excludes Hillary’s regal ‘next-ness’; viz., you, see, Wolf, her puritanical readiness yearns for a safe Clintonian habitat from which she is forever exiled.

CNN: Well let’s leave Jimmy Carter’s habitat for humanity out of this, for the time being...Jacques, what do you think of the press’ coverage of Hillary?

GD: The “news cycle” [and I stress, Wolf, your network’s use of a laundry metaphor to refer to its work], this news cycle (“spin”) rather than cleaning re-enacts a profane staining transposed onto Hillary’s record [read, her “dress”]. Thus her reaching toward the “Oval Office” is turned into a televised sexualized parody of itself, a second impeachment, if you will, in which she is a mere voyeur of her husband’s phallic past.

CNN: Well if you're referring to the Monica Lewinsky scandal and to the former President’s dominance of her campaign, Bill has since been “muzzled”

GD: This “muzzling” proves my point, Wolf, suggesting as it does a leather mask, S & M. Hillary is a victim of her own campaign’s rhetoric of sadism.

CNN: Well, I don’t want to discuss fetishism with you, Jacques... so let’s talk about Barack, our latest CNN/Taco Bell poll shows that she still has a slight edge over Obama here in Ohio.

GD: Wolf, the poll is the phantasm and fetish from which Hillary cannot escape. Her imagined audience [polled] has long since been subsumed into Obama’s recursive fictions of the American body-as-collective-messiah: “Yes we can” [Oui, nous pouvons]

CNN: Are you saying Obama is a right-wing fundamentalist? Or that he speaks French?

GD: No, such a charge of pious Christianity or urbane bilingualism would involve eclipse of his already imposed identity as an Islamic warlord. By the way, is Wolf Blizter your real name? This sounds like what we call a nom de porn.

Hillary-as-Custer

March 1, Dallas, Texas The Alamo metaphor is not merely a fleeting sign, for here in Hilary's "camp" she now enters a re-originating narrative of a (new) Texas primary-battle-campaign. This preordained CNN-scripted Hillarean reenactment of Custer's last stand [siège final], shows that she, as Custer did, does, enacts (en avant d'histoire), an apocalyptic staging of empowered victum-hood into which the aspiring republic of Texas and Texan Latinos (a la Custer) have been inscribed, that is to say, recruited, armed, alerted ["who will answer the 3am phone?"], against an encroaching insurgent illegal immigrant surge from the south, porous borders, invaders, defined by the momentum of the colored Other (the Spanish Mexican empire/army=Obama as-Kenyan warlord leading caucus-goers)