Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Who Will Benefit Most From The Bin Laden Killing Politically?

I respond: Who gives a crap?

The answer is no one really cares except those with a damn near total lack of perspective. A long time ago I wrote:

There is a sameness about the disputes and controversies. Pure political junkies don’t really notice this as they can always live “in the moment.” They are like the guy in Memento: everything is perpetually new. Every new issue is taken upon its face value, and analogies are just tools used to bludgeon the other side and not to remind us that we have been here before.

Issues like "How much will Obama benefit from this?" simply fall in this navel gazing category. It's the type of question that makes the political blogosphere deathly boring for me sometimes. In the long run, and here I'm talking about months not years, it simply won't matter. For example, if gasoline hits five dollars a gallon this July people will look back at the halcyon days of the Bin Laden offing and think "Wow, we were so much younger back then..." or at least it will feel that way.

So much of politics is ephemera, in truth most of it is. For that reason it often bores me to tears. And, my goodness, is this particular piece of ephemera boring.

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