Hillary is running...

[zibazinski]

Good grief. 

[hoops902]

Apr 13, 2015 8:37:25 GMT -5 laterbloomer said:

Apr 13, 2015 7:49:49 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

There are so many women out there, surely there's a viable candidate.

She is a viable candidate. Anyone that gets this close to running with a real chance of winning has a lot of dirty laundry out there that has been aired and exaggerated and gets recycled through the new channels on a regular basis. Having a black man or woman is a sign of progress, not a social experiment. You will know you have really made it when people stop talking about their race or sex. What makes Hillary such a viable candidate is her ability to survive the attacks.

Has she survived the attacks?  She's basically just the butt of jokes.  Similar to George W Bush except he became the punchline moreso while in office (and he had the advantage of being the "oh shucks" personality type).  Hillary is the same punchline but is trying to get elected through it, and without any semblance of a personality.  It's probably largely a trait the first female President needs, nobody is going to go after her for being incompetent.  She's clearly very smart.  She reminds me a bit at a high level of Al Gore.  Smart, competent, could probably do an effective job...but no real personality to speak of.  Opposite of Obama, all personality, but I'm not sure anyone looked at him and said "He is definitely the most capable person of running the country from a mechanical standpoint".  We sometimes have charistmatic leaders, we sometimes have leaders who get there from being the smartest person in the room.  Rarely do we have both.  The problem is that the trait which gets someone elected is not necessarily the most important trait to doing the job.  I think Hillary is going to struggle getting elected, but I think she could do a fine job once there.

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I count not being run off the public stage despite it all as surviving the attacks.

[HoneyBBQ]

Apr 11, 2015 15:42:09 GMT -5 Robert not Bobby said:

. Hillary is another experiment...a black president a female president?

A person being black or a woman is an ... experiment?

[billisonboard]

Apr 13, 2015 9:50:09 GMT -5 HoneyBBQ said:

Apr 11, 2015 15:42:09 GMT -5 Robert not Bobby said:

. Hillary is another experiment...a black president a female president?

A person being black or a woman is an ... experiment?

Yeah, you know, to see if either of "them type" are actually capable of being a president, like James Buchanan or Franklin Pierce.