Dream Obama
Feb. 8th, 2010 10:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
merI dreamed I was running a 5k (or something; that part is not clear), and fell and skinned my knee--and an onlooker with an entourage of men in dark suits came to help me! And it was Obama--and the suits were the Secret Service!
As he was applying bactine to my knee, I said, "I really have to thank you. I no longer wake up every morning with a feeling of dread about the leadership of my country."
And he leaned back on his heels and regarded me. "That's it? That's all? That's a bit apathetic. I'm glad you don't have dread. But what are you doing to help?"
And I woke up, thoroughly chastised by dream!Obama.
Hilariously, when I told everyone at work about this dream, they all felt chastised by dream!Obama as well.
My subconscious is a treacherous place, and one cannot be smug there. Or near it.
As he was applying bactine to my knee, I said, "I really have to thank you. I no longer wake up every morning with a feeling of dread about the leadership of my country."
And he leaned back on his heels and regarded me. "That's it? That's all? That's a bit apathetic. I'm glad you don't have dread. But what are you doing to help?"
And I woke up, thoroughly chastised by dream!Obama.
Hilariously, when I told everyone at work about this dream, they all felt chastised by dream!Obama as well.
My subconscious is a treacherous place, and one cannot be smug there. Or near it.
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Date: 2010-02-09 03:36 am (UTC)I've been reading some articles about how the intrusive "anti terrorism" assaults upon civil liberties started in GWB's terms have been continued in Obama's administration.
One article likened the U.S. government to a railway. The president is the conductor, but cannot change the tracks. In the mind of the hopeful voter, this is a car, which the president could turn a ninety degree corner in if he tried hard enough. But there are no 90 degree turns on train tracks.