We’re U.S. Citizens! (Not Infantilized Consumers)

November 15th, 2008 · No Comments

by Elizabeth A. Leib

Ok, let’s take a few more days to congratulate ourselves on electing a president who uses modern technology. In this first address via youTube, our new president-elect talks to us like grown-ups, citizens instead of infants who can only babble and shit and suck and whose highest aspiration is to shake a shiny rattle. We are encouraged to imagine ourselves as world citizens instead of rogue mavericks. See also Garrison Keillor’s column on Obama - the coolest president in the world.