Feelings…Nothing More than Feelings

Hillary’s name is being phonily placed in fake nomination, for the crap reason that not only Every Voice Must Be Heard (itself already a degenerate version of Gore’s Every Vote Must Be Counted) but Every Feeling Must Attain Climax:

“With every voice heard and the party strongly united, we will elect Sen. Obama president of the United States,” Clinton said in a statement released by the two campaigns.

Clinton had pointed to the restiveness of her supporters in an appearance at a private home last month, saying they needed “a catharsis” before falling in line behind Obama.

Nothing better captures the rotting head of contemporary culture quite like this preposterousness, which manages to outdo even the dumbest of Obama’s transcend-politics-thru-politics-itself routines. Speeches at least are supposed to be spectacles, whereas nominations are supposed to…well…nominate someone who might become the Party’s nominee. Yes, conventions are almost pure spectacle nowadays. But Hillary could have all the confetti and hand-clutching she wanted if she cared purely about spectacle.

No. She of the Politics of Meaning wants to politicize meaning itself [scroll down], a move five times more postmodern (as she herself freely admitted) and a hundred times more pathetic than anything her opponent managed to do on his way to whipping her out of pole position, and anything he has done since.