2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Leonard Pitts: Bernie Sanders looking more like a sore loser [View all]Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)"Yes, Clinton is, putting it mildly, a flawed candidate, stiff at the lectern, shameless in her pandering and disliked for reasons both substantive (she sometimes seems to have only a nodding relationship with truth) and not. (Since when is it a sin or a surprise for a politician to be ambitious?) But shes also intelligent and experienced. And compared to Trump, shes a plate of Lincoln with a side of FDR.
As such, she might make a good president, might be a middling president, might even be a bad president, but at a minimum, she would be a president unlikely to hand out nuclear weapons like party favors or require customs agents to ask would-be visitors, Are you now or have you ever been a Muslim?
Clinton is, in other words, a good, pragmatic choice. And no, thats not an inspiring battle cry."