well, just for the hell of it, i'm going to have a little go at barack obama and the audacity of hope. if your hope was truly audacious, i think you'd aspire to do more than perch atop a trillion dollar bureaucracy that rests exclusively on coercion, confiscation, and corruption. the most audaciously hopeful and profoundly inspiring moments in the history of the us senate were when they were caning each other on the floor, or when the phrase "us senator" (along with manly good looks and extreme infusions of pure cash) was helping john kennedy fuck aspiring models. in all seriousness, if one were truly called to public service, one would be working out how to implode the us capitol, much less sitting there dealing out the pork. if you are ever tempted to be inspired by the visionary leadership  of an american president, i suggest that you remind yourself that the dreamy authority of said president rests on the largest, most annihilating force of violence this planet can ever know.