"People worry about all the wrong things."

[DemocratSinceBirth]

I defer to nobody when it comes to being sanguine about our prospects in the upcoming election. The only thing that could derail a Hillary Clinton presidency is not an indictment that is never going to happen but a terrorist attack.

I think Hillary will come out okay but that is the ultimate wild card because we don't know if and when it occurs, where it will occur, and how the public will react.




P.S. Donald Trump is the last person in the world I would want in charge in a crisis but I am not vainglorious enough to think I speak for the entire electorate.

[Lucinda]

1. Well I HOPE that those inclined to commit such an act would think twice about their

world if Trump were to gain power as a result. But the irrationality is strong with that bunch.

[Hortensis]

8. Well, ISIS IS working to precipitate Armageddon.

It's an end-times ideology, after all. Guessing they'd be thrilled if Trump were to be elected and no doubt see it as evidence they don't actually need that God is busy at work for them.

DemocratSinceBirth, I fairly often think of both natural and major economic and political events that could cause the nation to shift right in a fear reaction just before the election. Let's just hope Obama would be able to impress and reassure the nation with his competence again.

[athena]

2. This is precisely why

I think it's very bad for Trump to be on the ballot at all. You never know what might happen. If he's on the ballot, he has a nonzero probability of being elected president. In his case, any nonzero probability is too high. I would be happy if he were replaced with a sensible Republican*. Hillary is strong enough a candidate this time around to beat anyone.

* The problem, of course, is that there was not a single sensible Republican among the contenders this time around.

[grossproffit]

3. I'm very confident with Hillary as our candidate in regards to terrorism and attacks.

She's a very strong candidate.

[floriduck]

4. Why would a terror attack derail Hillary? She's a hawk so she should do well.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. Hard to get to the right of someone who wants to kill the families of terrorists.

Even the Israelis don't go that far...

I hope nobody plants a bug in Trump's ear that they blow up the homes of terrorists.

[randome]

6. "She's a hawk" is shorthand for someone whose foreign policy you disagree with.

It's an over-used phrase that can mean whatever you want it to mean.

[floriduck]

7. It just describes her most recent foreign policy actions, Honduras, Libya, Iraq. . . .

[MineralMan]

9. Is she?

Or is she trying her best to deal with a terrorist organization that uses suicide bombers and recruits locals to fight for it? As President, what would you do? I'm sorry, but simply calling her a "hawk" seems facile to me.

Describe your responses to international terrorist organizations, please, so we can discuss them. One word name calling seems inappropriate to me, somehow.

[floriduck]

11. Sorry MM. My reply was a question to the original poster on why a terror attack would/could derail

Hillary's campaign. Go back and read that. I agree Trump is a lunatic but I doubt the military leaders would jump at his request to go bonkers on terrorists just because he'd be their CIC. There would be cooler heads available to just let him go off any deep end.

My original thought was that Hillary would not hesitate to take any necessary action. But she, too, would ask for military advise first.

[MineralMan]

12. My reply is to you, relating to your calling

Cinton a "hawk." I consider that to be an attack on her.

[floriduck]

13. That's your interpretation. Keep it.

[MineralMan]

14. Keep it what?

I don't understand.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

10. That strikes me as overoptimistic.

538 give Clinton a 75% to 80% chance of winning. That looks about right to me. Those are good odds, but not as good as I'd like.