obama writes, it was personally disorienting, requiring me to constantly take stock to make sure I wasn’t buying into the hype.

how exactly does obama envision the promised land? despite the title, these seven hundred pages never say: the words “promised land” appear only once in the book as an epigraph, in an african american spiritual. the omission is striking; such vagueness can only be considered intentional.

anyway people still believe his slogans even though he himself never did. anyway he won big, despite the vague promises of hope and change in the madison avenue high rise promised land. his neoliberal con job promise was fulfilled manifold. he got rich as an emperor and took what he wanted. that's the american promised land. take it while you can. 

we're still here in obama's iminent domain promised land waiting for his second coming to steal the people's park while he keeps raking in the millions. 

we're still here in obamaland without obama, and he may get the park, like he got the beachfront compound in hawaii and the mansion on martha's vineyard.