Fox News is highly controversial. To open a Conversation on the US one must be somewhat controversial to be seen as cool. That is the stuff of democracy, particularly that of the US genre.
What better way to open to achieve this impact than to do a literary SNL styled schtick as an Outsider/Foreigner expressing views on the sitting US President through the prism of Fox News. This was what I did in my earlier post titled "Obama's Presidency" on 5 November.
That post should entertain and demonstrate the ways the warped effects Fox News can impinge on the opinions of Foreign US watchers (FUs) like myself for one.
To my credit (hubris developed from watching too much Trump), I am one of those FUs who inquisitively peeks beneath the veneer of the obligatory hullabaloo of American Democracy. In doing so I may get a shot closer to the truth.
All past Presidents were WASP influenced in their formative years. They looked out from the US at the world. Obama is the first US President that has been equipped to look back into at the US.
Past Presidents were like fishes swimming in a huge glass tank. They were unable to be aware of the water they are in as it just felt so natural. Obama is more like a "frog" that can occasionally hop out of the tank and look at the fishes in the water and see the water affecting the fishes. He is imbued with an extra dimension of insight lacking in his predecessors, to bolster the range and the depth of his outlook.
Obama has this frog-like advantage because he went to school in Indonesia during his impressionable years between age 6 to 10. He then spent his formative years in Hawaii up to around 18 years old.
Hawaii has strong traces of Japanese influence. Japanese is very much a derived culture of the Chinese going back in time. Inevitably, oriental thoughts and memes must have pervasively seeped into Obama's subconscious, made more receptive by his earlier years spent in Indonesia.
It can be said drawing from the benefits of the gentle Oriental nature, Obama is the first serious "Yin" US President as in the Chinese Philosophy of "Yin and Yang" (more about this in later posts).
Fox News is a vestige of the Nixon era. Its thinking is obviously oblivious to the water in the fish tank too. It is also obviously very much a "Yang" creature barking at anything "Yin" all the time.
Obama pivots his Presidency on "Yin" influences. The favourable effects take time to shine through. History will judge its goodness and soundness.
By disengaging from the Middle East, Obama has avoided further loss of American lives and dollars. Those with vested interests like Russia and Syria's neighbours have started to take over those heavy responsibilities that are theirs to begin with and are really sweating it out. Finally, their long overdue skins got into the game.
America should be pleased at how Obama has passed the ball back to them and learn more to look at itself from the outside to be adroit in this sort of ball games. Studying the stories here is one of the ways.
Obama has opened the Doors ......
AM I INVITED TO THE WHITE HOUSE ?
More stories to come....
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