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Originally Posted by jammies
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 don't agree. I think when you compare the Obama administration and the Bush administration, it's pretty obvious that the president still matters. In fact based on that comparison you could argue that the president matters more than ever.
As for Hillary being "a terrible candidate", I also don't agree with that.
Her strengths are experience, smarts and skill at the game of politics. Both her supporters and her enemies agree that she can work the system. If half the stuff she is accused of is true, we can also credit her for being excellent at avoiding scandal.
In the current hyperpartisan politics of the current United States, I would argue that those are the most essential skills for a president, if she wants to stay in power and get stuff done.
Her likeability, appearance, oratory or that stuff do not matter. It does not matter if she's "divisive" or not, because everyone knows they can't hate a president more than 100%, which is how much they'd hate any Democratic president.
Hillary Clinton might not be a likeable politician. But she can navigate a s***storm, and that's what the presidency is like these days.
If you consider the symbolics, what would it say if the US chose a terribly unqualified male over an inarguably qualified female?