October 30, 2012
The Fall of the House of Soetero
Glenn Fairman
The
ancient bards tell us that "whom the gods would destroy they first make
mad." Having exceeded this century's allotment for narcissism and fatal
hubris, our third-millennial Sun King is now reaping the ironic and
convulsive wrath of both man and nature. Having promised to slow the
rising of the oceans and to begin healing the planet in June of 2008,
Mr. Obama is learning the adamantine lesson that grandiosity, altruism,
and rhetoric can carry a demi-god only so far, and that the three Fates
alone decide where and when the political Ribbon of Life is to be
severed. Like an aging Oedipus who cannot escape
the prophesy of his own malevolent downfall, the lies of Benghazi and
the ghostly shades of four innocent men are wraiths haunting his Oval
Palace; and in the augury of tea leaves and entrails of poultry, the
Fall of the House of Soetero has been long decided. Moreover, if adding
insult to injury is not of itself
sufficient, less than half a fortnight before his quadrennial
affirmation before the Demos, the wrathful Poseidon is filling the
streets of the City of Great Apples with the same briny sea that he
boasted his powers would forestall.
Time
either makes heroes or fools of us all, and the decline and fall of the
fortunes of the insolent and the proud should be instructive to men who
should solemnly affect the posture of grace and humility. For the
impiety of having navigated our ship's compass
bearing with the constellation of the sinister Crescent and Star while
having offered our holy fire to false and venal gods, we duly witness
with fear and trembling the tragic end of our Sun King. There is indeed a
providential justice as the citizenry watch aghast as his smoldering
vessel floats mournfully down the flooded streets of Manhattan, saluted
only by those in the Tower of the aging and dour Grey Lady -- before
proceeding west towards the fading and dreaded Isle of Dreamless Sleep
and Failed Memory.
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