Despite everything Obama trends toward nonviolence
When Obama is taken to have won creds as Commander in Chief
by his careful excision of Osama
it is assumed Obama will be tough and not eschew bloody conflict
Obama has already conceded that despite personal agony
he does indeed recognize the need for and the value of sacrifice
When Obama is designated the prophet
of nonviolent governance for the world
no one responds
because as far as I know no one has ever dubbed him such
That will be the task of history
Here is why
Obama was brought up within a movement context that eschewed violence.
Obama is a genuine partisan of democracy
and democratic states are not inclined to settle disputes by violence
That is the way of dictators
Obama has shown himself to be more the enemy
than the friend
of those the US has typically played footsie with in the past.
The world will not end up all sweetness in light.
But the democratic revolution now in progress
is the first stage of a natural wave of survivalist energy
being cooked up by Being itself -
that is to say democracy is an ontological value
that comes of age when enough people will it
People are willing it today in large enough numbers
to result in a transition toward more and more democracy
The other ontological values will move forward in tandem.
Tolerance Helpfulness and Non-idolatry
Once the President drives another nail into the coffin
of characterizations of him that are wrong
he will perhaps move in the direction
of beginning to apply
these ontological values
to the macro world of transportation residence and work
This is almost as important as advancing democracy
because it involves defeating the oil construction and automobile industries
by offering all of them a better way to make a living
by rebuilding society
