The single most distressing result of Barack Obama's election is not the looting of your grandchildren's economic prospects to pay for the new administration’s Great Lurch Forward into insolvency. It isn’t the accompanying loss of liberty. Nor is it the mass decampment of “anti-war” leftists now silent or openly supporting the escalation of the war in Afghanistan (so that’s what they mean by “MoveOn”). No; it’s the ascendance of shameless kitschmeister Will.I.Am of the Black Eyed Peas, whose “Yes We Can” video on behalf of the Obama campaign took the cliched political cant that is rap’s tertiary stock-in-trade (after gangsterism and narcissism) to surreal and sinister levels, putting it directly in the service of power. The natural process of his passing down through the Dante-esque circles of celebreality television obscurity is now delayed by at least four years.That distressing? ...
I must admit I still enjoy it in the context of so many Americans longing to fix the mess Bush made of things—and thinking Clinton-McCain-Palin weren't up to the job.
As for Will.I.Am's 'ascendance', I haven't seen much to get worked up about. His sequel was incredibly bad.
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