2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary will most likely be the Dem nominee. That's just the fact. And she'd be DAMN good ! [View all]Carolina
(6,960 posts)and demonstrated her leadership skills (or lack thereof) by the horrendous management of her primary campaign.
She said then that she was "in it to win it... and it will be over early." But when Super Tuesday proved her wrong, she resorted to kitchen sink tactics against her Democratic opponent while lavishing kudos on John McCain! She remained in the campaign despite losing and despite racking up debt because she had wasted so much of her formidable campaign chest. And then the straw that broke the camel's back for the Democratic Party leadership was her holding out to the California primary and saying (paraphrased): "you never know... remember Bobby Kennedy."
After gracelessly bowing out, she wanted -- as one of her conditions for bowing out -- Obama to pay off her campaign debt.
This is damn good leadership, good management?!!! You screw up and then want someone else to bail you out... sounds a lot like Wall Street which is quite appropriate.
HRC is a corporatist who still counts that loser Larry Summers as one of her financial advisors. She was a founding member of the now-gone-in-name-only DLC and remains Third Way all the way. She has no political courage or backbone as demonstrated long ago (2002)by her finger in the political wind vote for IWR (giving Bush bi-partisan cover for his ilk's PNAC dream).
If she is the best the Democratic Party can offer, then we're F___KED.