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The change just keeps on coming, revealing the depths of its changiness in this year’s election of changitude.

In this ongoing – and impossible to parse – sentence of changehood, and to prove to all of us voters ready for changosis, that the now eternal struggle (according the rules of temporality, the struggle became eternal last Saturday) between Obama and Clinton, we have once again been given a glimpse of the changescence that awaits us. The people who carried this message of chageation were Clinton chief strategist and head changeologist, Geoff Garin, and Obama chief strategist and senior changician, David Axelrod. Both agents of changedom were on Meet the Press last Sunday. They both put forth compelling schema for changancy, but what was most remarkable about these two gentlemen was…nothing.

Here we are at the crossroads of Transfiguration and Sift, witnesses all to this historic moment in our history when a black man and woman have a legitimate chance (diminishing everyday as they continue to beat on each other) to gain the presidency, and who’s mapping the course for the “Here Comes Something New Express” – David Axelrod and Geoff Garin, a couple of middle-aged white guys.

I’ve got nothing against middle aged white guys. Every leader we’ve ever had has been but a slight variation on middle-aged white guy. But, and I don’t mean to go all academic here, how can anyone be oblivious to the obvious semiotic of trotting out “chief strategists” who look nothing like the candidates they strategize for and, from a distance, look exactly like the dopes who run the country now, and except for a change of clothes here and there, like every other GUY who’s run the country.

I guess changzoidification ain’t what it used be.

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