Saturday: Hillary 2016

Morning newsjunkies!

So yesterday was our weird anniversary, as Dr. Dakinikat blogged. I definitely remember five years ago yesterday. Almost as if it was yesterday, in fact. Needless to say, while some of the initial sting from June 2008 has subsided, the skin never grew quite back the same as before. The wound was actually first created on May 31, 2008…a wound reopened, with the scab pulled all the way off before it had healed, on June 7th, with the CNN sign blasting “The Clinton Exit” on our TV screens. The talking d00ds may be surprised how Our Girl never left the stage at all that day, but I know most of us here are not, and we never needed any tinglies up our legs to know the difference. (The Ready for Hillary chant grows stronger with every day.)

Looking even further back, Obama’s 2004 DNC speech was the first time I heard him speak. Not knowing anything about his politics at that point, I actually felt sympathy for him that the media kept acting as if he was ‘the first black man who could speak’ … ugh, wtf?! If someone called me ‘the first Indian woman who could speak’ at the DNC Convention, I would have pulled a Daria Morgendorffer eyeroll and just walked out of the building. (“La la la la la… this is my stuff, got to get off, I might go pop …’Excuse me, Excuse me…’ I’ve got to be direct, if I’m off please correct… la la la… you’re standing on my neck “)

At any rate, once the 2008 cycle was underway and all that, Obama grated for a Hillary ‘diehard’ like me obviously. For quite awhile.

Now, here five years later in 2013, I’m just kinda eh.

His speechifying is alright. I guess the kangaroo court-like atmosphere of the “new scandal” every day in the msm/Foxnutz zone grates way more by comparison. Nothing has really changed from Bush to Obama to Obama’s second term, except that the political landscape is even bleaker than that Chris Hedges “2011: A Brave New Dystopia” post at the end of 2010.

Bush III, yada yada political affective disorder-cakes.

But, hey ‘nobody’ could have ever predicted the way things would turn out. Right?

(Paging Emily Dickinson, yup, I’m a ‘nobody’ too, sister!)

I’m actually going to excerpt that second to last link–which is to one of my old posts I wrote in September 2010–in its entirety, because I think now is as good a time as any to revisit my words (plus, I’m an uppity goddess who likes to quote herself):

Evelyn De Morgan, Cassandra (1898)

Digby’s response to Obama’s state secrets (h/t bostonboomer):

Back when everyone naively thought that electing a Democrat would end these obscene royalist decrees, it was argued by a few of us that once given, these powers are rarely given back. But I don’t think anyone expected the Democratic constitutional scholar would actually double down on the dictatorial powers. I confess, I’m fairly gobsmacked.

I often start my frontpage rants in a comment section reacting to the latest buzz in the moment, so you may have seen me post the following bit before. Please bear with another repeat, because it’s the first thing that came to mind when I read about Digby digging up that sorry old excuse that “nobody could have predicted.”

Party of Nobodies…

Nobody could have predicted Bush-Cheney would be a massive failure.

Nobody could have predicted the Iraq war would be an unfounded war and a diversion.

Nobody could have predicted Obama would make Bush-Cheney’s policies the new normal.

I’m nobody, and I endorse this message.

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