But it's my understanding that Obama was elected to wash away America's sins! (She snarks, dependent on international headlines for Obama news, and being pissed off at the sentiment in *fiction*. Seriously, though, it seems like a % of his country sees his Presidency as their atonement.)

And re: Giving up on DC, you are a wiser woman than I. Though my reading list has been slowly narrowing to the categories of "Supergirl" and "Things I have reason to believe Supergirl (or Amanda Waller, but that is sporadic) may show up in."

(And *Kara* tried to give up Superheroing in the aftermath of seeing her mom die in front of her once again, but this was presented as "Teenagers, moody or SO moody?" rather than "Fuck you too, Earth people, get eaten by a giant mutated space polar bear.")