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Offline segnosaur

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Re: Hillary
« on: November 25, 2019, 02:00:03 pm »
Best or worst candidate ever?  Discuss.
In what context?

Best as in capable of fulfilling the role of president?

In that case I'd have to say she would have been fairly competent/capable. Not sure if she'd be the 'best' ever, but could conceivably be in the top half of recent presidents.  She was familiar with the Washington landscape, actually had some praise from both sides of congress back when she was a senator, and had some decent enough policies.

Best as in personal ability to campaign and/or win an election?

Not quite as good as her ability to actually fulfill the role of president. She did not have the personal charisma as Obama or Bill Clinton, and she had made some mistakes (both prior to the election and during the election) that legitimately affected her electibility.

Best as in had the best chance at winning?

Note that this differs from her actual abilities as a candidate as discussed earlier. The republicans (and their media arm at Fox News) did do a rather effective job at smearing her over things like Bengazi (which likely gives republicans orgasms when they hear the name) or Uranium-1, even though in both cases Hillary was not culpable at all . Now whether that makes Hillary a 'bad' candidate is debatable... any politician is likely to have areas they can be attacked for (sometimes unfairly). Clinton has just been around longer to give her opponents more material to work with.