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Where Were You When You Heard the News About Hillary?
Ladies and Gentlemen of Ricochet, I’m sure you are as surprised, stunned, and deeply moved by the news as me. Who would have thought we would see the day? Hillary Clinton has announced–to the nation’s astonishment and wonder–that she plans to run for President of the United States!
I am so surprised, and so excited, that tears are running down my face.
Honestly, I confess, the idea had never occurred to me. (Why not? Sexism? I suppose I had always thought of her as apolitical, somehow. Not really a Washington insider. Just not that interested in power, you know?)
And I admit … I’m worried about her. She’s so innocent, so lacking in guile: Will those hardboiled operators in Washington just chew her up and spit her out?
But I’m excited! Nothing can take that away from me! It’s been so long since I’ve felt this kind of hope that I didn’t even know I could still feel it. It’s like falling in love: colors seem brighter, sounds more resonant, the smell of springtime is sweeter–frankly, when I think of Hillary, I feel young again!
OH! pleasant exercise of hope and joy!
For mighty were the auxiliars which then stood
Upon our side, we who were strong in love!
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!
How many years has it been since our nation’s had such an injection of optimism? A completely fresh face! An unknown quantity. A true outsider. Can you imagine how she’d shake things up? It would change everything, wouldn’t it?
And her message–she’s about “everyday Americans who are trying to build a better life for themselves and their families”–I’ve truly never heard a politician who talks that way, have you?
There’s something about her, isn’t there? Her smile–it makes me hate the mornings a little less. She’s humble. It’s not about the power with her. It’s not about the politics. Everything about her makes me remember what democracy is really all about–everyday Americans who are trying to build a better life for themselves and their families.
When I heard the news … it was so unexpected that at first I thought it was a joke. I pinched myself over and over–and then I allowed myself to believe. To fall in love. I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.
Let’s all share our memories of the moment–of this day in our nation’s history–so that one day we can tell our kids and our grandkids, this is what it was like.
Ladies and Gentlemen, where were you when you heard the news?
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I remember reading, in National Review I think, some optimistic glass-is-half-full pundit trying to buck up Republicans’ morale after Clinton defeated GHW Bush.
“Cheer up,” he wrote, “Don’t think of it as the end of the Reagan era, instead it’s the half-way mark o the Bush/Clinton era.”
That was 1992. Alas….
I was spreading manure in my veggie garden beds. Appropriate I think.
That is Elizabeth Warren.
Well there I was, working in my umbrella shop, about to test my latest invention in the big storm when just then the clouds parted and the sun came shining through. And rainbows. So many rainbows.
I guess I can’t say I heard the news. But I knew.
I knew.
I think if she wins she might be the first black president. Could someone check that, I’m really interested…wouldn’t that be something!
Ah, the delicious irony: her Sunday morning announcement (just in time for talk shows that no one watches) will be drowned out in every newspaper by a 21 year old Texan who won the Masters–you know the tournament played at Augusta National of all places.
I was outside the San Francisco Symphony when I heard the news. Of course, this being Nancy Pelosi’s home town, we were way in front–as we are with all things Progressive: I learned of Hillary’s run on June 12, 2014.
I even posted about it.
EJ Hill’s campaign flyer from last summer amply encapsulates the fiery passion I have felt since learning the news.
And we get two for the price of one!
Yeah, two for the price of one. Just imagine bill as…First Man? And this time around, he will be less restrained, not having the responsibility to behave himself as a good president should. This should be…interesting.
And How!
Immediately after I read the announcement I noticed the sky perceptibly darken, the earth shook and a few hanging pictures fell from their positions on the wall, a calf was stillborn in the meadow across the street, flocks of ravens and blackbirds noisily traversed the sky above my house.
Please Lord let me know if think there are any issues with a Hillary presidency?
Clinton announcement could have actually been a “fizzle”…..
According to early reports, Sunday’s Hillary event certainly seems like a deliberate attempt in the right place. However, it was too small to be a successful Democrat-class crude election device, by a factor of three or four. The reported estimates of Richter magnitude spread from 4.5-5, and the standard conversions to elective yield suggest a yield of 2-6 kiloton-equivalents of Obama-dynes. Most of the latest Richter magnitude estimates have come in the low half of the 4.5-5 range, so it seems likely that the yield was 4 Obama-dynes or smaller.
That’s a lot of Heat and Light, much larger than the 2014 Midterm Election, but it still falls far short of an expected 12-20 Obama-dyne yield of a crude Democrat-style event. For comparison’s sake, the first Obama run of all other Democrat launches that are self-announced members of the Democrat club had larger yields than this latest Hillary Clinton test.
Because the expected Democrat-style explosion didn’t occur, there are four options as to what did happen during the test:
• the campaign failed to take off properly;
• the device was a higher-tech device designed for smaller yield with less factual matter (e.g., congressional or Senatorial elections);
• the Democrats faked an actual announcement with conventional results;
• or the Clinton camp detonated a larger bomb than anyone predicted.
The first option is the most likely case given what is publicly known about the Hillary camp’s diplomacy and technology.