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It’s high time for age limits on this job. Actually, all 3 branches of government.
I think she's always had a likeability problem and, lest we forget, there was some real division amongst Democrats in 2008 when Obama took center stage and squeezed her out, some have never gotten over that. IMO she's a policy wonk and I do like that about her but she's never really been able to win over the hearts of people and it's always been her biggest downfall.
Are you sure high exposure to right ring media didn’t convert you into a zombie HRC hater on some level? You voted for Trump, who is an incompetent toddler in an old man’s body instead of a highly knowledgeable person who would have actually done the job of being a president instead of grift the fuck out of everything.
When BC was running for president I got enough inside info on him from those in the know to form my opinion of him: he is a huckster through and through. With HRC and the godawful Carville, they pandered to whomever could give them an edge. I took to calling the Clintonistas Poll Weasels. Wherever the political winds blows is where you'll see them pivot.
HRC knows her shit. Unfortunately, she sometimes doesn't quite get it that voters often think two things: "Know your shit" but sometimes "Know you're shit!" She was super arrogant in 2008 and thought she had the nomination in the bag. She should have never lost against Obama. Edwards should have been her biggest worry. His sex scandal and subsequent exit should have been her golden ticket to the White House. The fact that she lost to Mango 8 years later (admittedly with Comey, The Russians, the GOP's racist and anti-Dem voter suppression schemes, and numbingly stupid "progressive"
There has always been pro-corporate factions within the Democratic party. The old slave-owning Southern Aristocracy that morphed into anti-worker, exclusively pro-business pocket pols was greatly expanded after Clinton. It wasn't a coincidence that a Southern boy expanded that faction. People often forget that Carter (another Southerner) was somewhat in that mold when he ran and started as President. His image and actions are far more progressive now compared to candidate Carter and President Carter.
TBF, what white politician can you name that has a better "race relations history"? Honest question. I think the few that are looked upon as having good relations with The Black Community™ all have racial skeletons in their political and/or personal closets. When Obama chose Biden as his VP candidate, there were collective groans from many Black people and progressives. Some deemed it the end of his candidacy. Once they won and he served in office under Obama, effectively becoming his pit bull, Biden's bonafides were established in the minds of many African Americans. They never thought he was perfect. That he redeemed himself (at least partially) given his past record with what he was doing to put forth Obama's agenda. It helped given the rise of Birtherism. Who knew calling the country's first Black President a Kenyan would turn off Black voters!
In 2008/2012/2016 the alternative was far, far worse: Black voters were not going to vote for McCain/Romney/Mango!!!
TBF, what white politician can you name that has a better "race relations history"? Honest question. I think the few that are looked upon as having good relations with The Black Community™ all have racial skeletons in their political and/or personal closets. When Obama chose Biden as his VP candidate, there were collective groans from many Black people and progressives. Some deemed it the end of his candidacy. Once they won and he served in office under Obama, effectively becoming his pit bull, Biden's bonafides were established in the minds of many African Americans. They never thought he was perfect. That he redeemed himself (at least partially) given his past record with what he was doing to put forth Obama's agenda. It helped given the rise of Birtherism. Who knew calling the country's first Black President a Kenyan would turn off Black voters!
