The Power of Speech

Clinton Jabberwocky

Clinton Jabberwocky


"Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!..."

Jabberwocky is the poem by Lewis Carroll, that is defined as meaningless speech or writing.  Jabberwocky, as defined by the Clinton's, means that left is right and up is down. High means low, but only if it doesn't suit.  Mr. Obama must feel at times that he has stumbled upon a world of Lewis Carroll, where everything that is said is both meaningless and at times, perilous as words are twisted to suit and nothing is set in stone. No agreements reached by the Democratic party, nothing that is said or written cannot be twisted to suit the meaning of the Clinton political machine.

These people are the same ones who maintained the "war room" and the slogan, "It's the economy, stupid". Now, it seems the phrase has been adjusted to read, "It's whatever sticks, stupid!"  The spin-meisters have spun out of control in that everything that was agreed upon as the "metric" if you will, to define a winner of the Democratic nomination is constantly shifting shapes to define the winner as Hillary Clinton.  And nothing else seems to be the correct answer to the equation.

Lewis Carroll could have used Mrs. Clinton as a perfect model for the Queen of Hearts in "Alice in Wonderland". Here's a short sample of Alice playing croquet with the Queen:

"The players all played at once, without waiting for turns, quarrelling all the while, and fighting for the hedgehogs; and in a very short time the Queen was in a furious passion, and went stamping about and shouting, "Off with his head!" or "Off with her head!" about once in a minute.
Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure she had not as yet had any dispute with the Queen, but she knew that it might happen any minute, "and then," thought she, "what would become of me? They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here: the great wonder is that there's any one left alive!"
That is the great fear in the Democratic party. "Will there be anyone left alive at the end of this process?"  If the main passion is simply to yell, "Off with his head!" before the good of the party or anything else other than a desire for power, then the process becomes an absurd race to the finish where there is no logic or reason other than to win at all costs.