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Originally Posted by jammies
Other than being a woman, she's just more of the same. I wouldn't call her awful, she won't be any better or any worse than the rest of the shlubs the Americans have elected in the last half-century when she wins. President is now one of those positions where the best you can hope for is someone who won't screw things up too badly.
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I dunno. I agree that she's going to be more of the same and not any better or worse than others at the actual job of being President. Frankly, I'm not sure she won't be better at it. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if she has more success realizing her agenda than Obama given her experience and obvious intelligence. Obama's statement that she's the most qualified person in history to seek the Presidency was, I think, hyperbolic... but it's not an obviously crazy thing for him to say.
As a candidate though, I think she's probably the worst the Democrats have offered in 20 years. I was too young to remember Dukakis, but clearly Bill and Obama were better candidates. John Kerry, while mostly uninteresting and certainly not great, was mostly just boring. Gore, similarly, had his faults and was somewhat prickly and arrogant, but not to the extent that Hillary comes off as. Certainly once you add the baggage of the e-mail scandal and Benghazi, she's less electable - there's no comparison between narrowly dodging indictment and the Swift Boat nonsense that Kerry got tagged with, for example.