Geriatric.

Face it, Democrats, where you are at the start of 2017 is not where you thought you would be.Just eight years ago you were looking at several decades of liberal governance under your very own Franklin D. Roosevelt, with united control of the federal government.

Now, as they say, you can drive to Utah from Florida without passing through one state that is not under unified GOP governance.

Your political leadership is now geriatric, and your candidate cupboard is bare.

And what set of miscreants brought this upon you? Look no further than your most recent two-term-winning presidents, so glib, so winning, and so very persuasive that they lured you out on a limb that they sawed off behind you, and left you to fend for yourselves.

Sad, but couldn’t have happened to a more deserving ideology.

Source: The sins of the gods | Washington Examiner

. . . In fact, unlike the sage Michelle Obama and others, I am feeling hope today like I have not felt for a long time. Marty? Not so much:

For more than a year I engaged in the visual and oral analog to “fasting.” Fasters discipline themselves not to eat. I chose not to comment on the election campaigns.

A digital word-search will find no mention in 50 Monday Sightings of any presidential candidate or party.

The choice was an implicit protest against or retreat from the grossness, waste, distortion, and distraction in what elections have become.

He missed a chance for his own Journal of the Plague Year, I guess.

Source: Many Sightings of Hope | The University of Chicago Divinity School

. . . giving chapter and verse of his sterling character, among other features.

Petty political ploys are standard operating procedure back in the Chicago wards that spawned President Barack Obama’s career.

Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has declined to retaliate against the U.S. sanctions over the Russian hacking during the election season.

With Putin, Obama’s actions smack of a jilted suitor, writes columnist Andrew Malcolm.

Source: President Obama’s Russia punishment seems the work of a jilted suitor, columnist writes | McClatchy DC

Gruesome-ville.

President Obama plans a farewell speech next week in Chicago, and perhaps he’ll notice that while he’s been in Washington his hometown has become the nation’s murder capital and largest gang war zone. Worth reflecting on is the city’s upswell in violence last year that followed political protests against law enforcement and a pullback in policing.

I am reminded of the punk, celebrated as protest leader, who showboated in the cop’s face during one such protest/blocking of rights of way for vehicles and pedestrians.

Am reminded also that one candidate talked (more than once) about the plight of the law-abiding in black ‘hoods. The other bristled at the idea that there’s a problem. She lost, he won.

Meanwhile, Chicago politics is full of hand-wringing about “violence” and the victims and hearts going out etc. but nothing about LAW ENFORCEMENT, which (can you imagine?) is the heart of the problem.