rrfan;1773748 wrote:Pretend there is no political party....no someone tell me you would actually vote for her. This county is full of very intelligent winners why on earth is it so hard to find a qualified president.
I will take a business person over a politician any day!
Had Hillary become president in 2008 she would have nominated Richard Holbrooke to be Secretary of State. Probably the best diplomat in modern times. One of Obama's biggest mistakes was undercutting him when he was the special envoy to Afghanistan.
President's make their biggest mark in foreign affairs and she has more experience in that area than any candidate in recent history. Moreover, while she is not as talented as Holbrooke was, I think we turn Obama's foreign policy away from "Diplomacy backed by uncredible threats of force" to a more Holbrookean Diplomacy backed by credible threats of force.
That is preferable to the current doctrines adhered to by some candidates in the race who seem to think speaking boisterously and recklessly swinging around a big stick can bend world order to our will and other candidates who seem to think it's not necessary to carry a big stick and that we can let world order go as it might.
Domestic policy proposals are almost irrelevant because even when they have the whole deck, like Obama and Bush did early in their presidencies, they don't pursue their whole policy agenda.
Moreover, Hillary probably reappoints Yellen or appoints Summers to the Fed and Yellen is the savior of the U.S. economy (so far...could still blow it).
Monetary hawks like her opponents probably appoint John Taylor who has been calling for hikes for years now.
And Hillary is a Jelly Maker while Sanders is a Tree shaker, as the saying goes.
P.s. I think Jeb Bush is probably the second best candidate as I think he wants to undo what Gingrich did to his father and return the GOP to moderation. He just cannot sell being this hardcore conservative and everyone knows and that is why he fails.