One Un-Cool Dude

“young, cool and can play basketball.”

I've heard this several times in reference to Barack Obama. Who the hell thinks this guy is "cool"? With as much modesty as I can muster, allow me to claim a certain expertise in the subject.

Cool is basically not giving a shit what anyone thinks—because you have a clarity about truth and bullshit that gives you the confidence to defy the world when necessary. (It is possible, of course to be a nerd iconoclast—an entirely different animal...but not a lame one.)

Kids are not cool. They're the most pathetic of conformist sheep; so self-deluded, so earnest, so yearning, so shallow, so hungry for acceptance that cool completely eludes them. You can't be that needy and be cool. Which is, of course why they are so desperate to convince themselves and the world that they are. And one look at them will bear witness to how very hard they are trying. And nothing is lamer than 'trying too hard'. It is the very antithesis of cool.

Sheep aren't cool. Being part of the herd can make you hip or trendy—for a nanosecond—but never cool.

Hip is relative. Cool is forever. Hip is external. Cool is internal. Hip is faithful copying. Cool is original. And originals are usually cool. Amadeus was pretty cool. Beethoven, too. The Beatles for sure...but not the Dave Clark Five...who might have been "hip" for ten minutes. Mac is cool. Windows, not so much. Eminem is cool, Vanilla Ice...well you get my point.

And my point is, Barack Obama is not cool!

He's a lame, gormless flake.

In spite of all racial hype to the contrary. Being Black does not make you cool. At least not to serious connoisseurs. The shallow think cool is conveyed by superficial style. Which is why so many idiots run around looking like, well, idiots, mimicking the look of the cool, thinking it will transform them.

But here's the sad truth: The lame try to make themselves cool by wearing clothes. The Cool make clothes cool by wearing them.

The same is true with behavior. The Cool do what they do for reasons of their own. And what they do is cool—because they do it. The lame "go along" in the herd that follows.

Has Obama ever done an original thing in his life—or had a unique thought? Has he ever stood out from the herd? Has it ever followed him? Has anyone, ever, sought to be like him? Has anyone even admired him? Looked up to him? We've never heard of one. In two years of campaigning.

Barack Obama virtually holds the patent on conformity. He learned communism as Frank Davis' knee, and acted and spoke just like a good little communist. He learned Black liberation theology at Jeremiah Wright's knee, and acted and spoke just like a good little black liberationist . He learned Machine Politics in Chicago, and acted and spoke just like a good little machine politician. He learned Leftwing Senate Democrat politics at Joe Biden's* knee, and he acted and spoke just like a good little Leftwing Senate Democrat. He learned Pseudo-Moderate Obfuscation Campaigning at David Axelrod's knee, and acts and speaks just like a good little pseudo-moderate obfuscating campaigner.

Barack Obama is the quintessential uncool follower. He wears the herd's clothes, he speaks their words, he dances their steps, he parrots their opinions and views.

Barack Obama may be the lamest dude who ever ran for office. And his poor followers are even worse...including the terminally clueless MSM. They're so irredeemably lame they think he's cool. It's pathetic really.

TheGunslinger

*Generic representative of the breed.