Why the grim struggle waged over an eminently forgettable, laughably amateurish poseur--Barack Obama, in all his tragic and self-deluded grandeur? Actually this raging battle is for stakes so much larger than what's on the surface it's difficult to fathom. You see, personalities aside, we are caught in a titanic struggle over the soul of of America--regarding our collective DNA--what we believe and who we are. Progressive forces are trying to birth into being a neo-pagan kingdom, with all that implies, symbolized by the Democrat National Convention dropping Israel and God from the party platform. Those on the right are struggling to balance the original outline of US colonial theory with ever present demands for modernization--which will be our demise if carried too far.