STOP the presses! This election isn’t about the Clintons after all. It isn’t about the Acropolis columns erected at Invesco Field. It isn’t about who is Paris Hilton and who is Hanoi Hilton. (Though it may yet be about who is Sarah Palin.) After a weeklong orgy of inane manufactured melodrama labeled “convention coverage” on television, Barack Obama descended in classic deus ex machina fashion — yes, that’s Greek too — to set the record straight. America is in too much trouble, he said, to indulge in “a big election about small things.”
So wrote drama critic, Frank Rich, in this morning's New York Times. Actually, deus ex machina is not Greek, but Latin. It means "god from a machine," or, in other words, a god descending to set things straight. Not only does Frank Rich needs to brush up on the difference between Greek and Latin, it wouldn't hurt him to brush up on some incarnational theology as well.
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