Barak Obama and Mitt Romney: Ironies

Barak Obama and Mitt Romney are ensnarled in an election era that screams irony.  Obama projected  his presidency on reaching across the aisle then was met with a party that decided that the only way to prevent his re-election was to oppose every single thing Obama proposed, even if it was in their best interest or if the idea had originally come from them or if the country was in crisis.  Romney would, ‘on the first day’,  repeal  ‘Obamacare’, which should have been titled ‘Romneycare’, as it nearly duplicates Romney’s ‘signature achievement’  in Massachusetts; his one idea being the ‘individual mandate’ (the most hated part of the plan now). Romney appears to have a muse that kicks in when he can look like a knight in shining armor to create jobs, but his history  forcing bankruptcies, often, and his role being ‘financier’, whose only obligation is to his money- lending  company, the Bain of his existence,  and to making a profit for Bain; not to create jobs .   Both are ‘ivory tower’, mostly; Romney with his obscene amount of money generated by, you guessed it, fancy manipulations of the financial markets, which are, of course, a major cause of the Great Recession.  Obama, coming from some poverty and racial tension, has learned to deal with that in a very modern way; he learned to walk amongst the rich and white and became a major brain in the academic world.   Romney has never had to worry about a job or a meal in his life and Obama has learned to walk amongst the Romneys of the world, breathing that air a little too deeply.  Neither mention the poor.  Romney has decided, religiously, that to lie is to win and Obama decided to dance with the bankers.  Both are knights, one transmuting into a raging anima despite his stick figure persona;  the other,  ‘Great Uniter’, facing this country that, unbelievably, has turned into a tug of war nation with the people agreeing to put a paper bag on their heads as they tug.  Winner take nothing and wait, numbed, for the next day.  They both need to take a walk in the forest   with a chainsaw and a rifle and a tarp and go to ‘donkey college’.  In the meantime, voting with our instincts, judge  based on probabilities and compromises; go with the truth teller and the warrior with the Nobel Peace Prize and a plan for a visionary  future,  despite the ironies.