The 2016 U.S. presidential campaign began in earnest this past weekend with all consistent slick talk from candidates addressing the self-absorption of a public waiting to be sold new products.
Former First Lady of Arkansas and the U.S., former U.S. Senator, former failed presidential candidate, former U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, launched a campaign of appeals to American self-absorption shaped by product-peddlers.
No rich fat-cats in this ad:
Difficult to tell what the ad is selling, other than a softer and kinder image of Clinton than the one currently etched in the public's mind
As the Republicans roll out their campaigns, it will become clearer, with each new launch, that what they are peddling is Not-Obama. Not an encouraging future for the next 18 months, so just hit the mute button. This too, will pass.
Meanwhile, there is a country to run and problems to be confronted. Currently, it is Barack Obama who steers the ship.
Fortunately, six years into the job, he is a leader who "gets it," a leader who knows how the Israeli government does nothing to lead its public out of the wilderness of racism and stupefaction.
So far, it appears Obama will do what he can to confront the "systematic dehumanization of the Palestinians" and continue to choose diplomacy over military action on the world stage.
His biggest challenge is to make those choices in spite of the restraints U.S. voters have placed on him with a Republican-run conservative Congress.
The few prophetic voices we have, like Gideon Levy, will continue to remind us of the false prophets who have led us into the darkness.
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