The Democrats are in deep disarray over the devastating success of their candidate Barack Obama. In cities, towns and college campuses across the country, the same refrain could be heard.
But others vehemently agreed:
Perhaps this unidirectional finger-pointing itself explains why the party failed in its efforts to lose. The party, insiders confided, had moved far from its roots of inconsistency and incoherence. They had moved like an organism with six legs attached to one body instead of six bodies attached to one leg. The signs of success were on the wall, and while the democrats texted, facebooked, blogged and goosed them to each other, they'd forgotten the words of Jimmy Carter: "A little organization is a dangerous thing."
Anil Menon, maverick maverick and self-declared human, found comfort in liberal mathematics: "A system built for failure cannot succeed at failing on a consistent basis. It's asking for perfect imperfection, and Godel only promised imperfect perfection. Failure is not always an option."
Leading democrats declared they would simply have to try harder. Many could be spotted fanning out to the libraries and book-meets to hammer out a new success-proof strategy.
If only failure were so simple. Against talent, ambition, hopes and human will, what can mere negativity achieve? If a Barack Obama is possible, if such a possibility is possible, if probability itself has become a subset of the doable, then the Impossible may be, just maybe, the last citizen left its once vast and marmoreal imperium. Be kind: hug a democrat today.


Hmmm! Satire!! A new direction!! Interesting! Will watch for developments on your success proof ideology!! LOL
Posted by: Narayanan | November 05, 2008 at 06:32 PM
Narayanan: :) Well, Democrats are so used to ridicule, it's probably best to apply kindness in homeopathic doses for now. The poor bastards are so pathetically happy at being popular. Bit like lungfish who've suddenly discovered the rationale behind their names: You mean-- Lung-- Because we have-- Oh, God! (sob).
Posted by: Anil Menon | November 05, 2008 at 09:19 PM
You do funny well!! Well, while we are busy saying "Yes, we did", lots of things tell us, "Well, so what? What are you going to do next?"
Aye, there's the rub!!
Posted by: Narayanan | November 06, 2008 at 10:46 AM