like_that;1722806 wrote:I am still wondering for those who will vote Hillary, why based on her career do they think she will be a good president? Plz b honest.
I don't think Hillary would be a great, transformative president but I think she would be a good president and has the broad range of experience we should expect for the job.
I think Hillary would make a diligent, competent president for much the same reason I think Mitt Romney would have at least been a diligent, competent president; she has a broad range of experience and is not an ideologue. I didn't agree with Mitt Romney's general points of view (i.e. thinking Ben Bernanke was too dovish) but I don't think he would have been a "bad" president if he had won like I think some of these fools running would be (like Barry Goldwater said, these preachers on a mission from God are a hell of a damn problem and all that).
In a sense she is the Democrats' version of Scott Walker. She has taken the Right Wing's best shots and is still standing. She has dealt with the right wingers who hated her as much as they hate Obama and knows how to handle them (unlike Obama) and she has experience being around and dealing with Conservatives in a genuinely pragmatic fashion: Her time in Arkansas and in the Senate. For instance, all of the non-bomb throwing Republican Senators have nothing but good things to say about her which is not the same for Obama. (I actually don't think Obama is an ideologue but that he does have contempt for people who don't just agree with what his opinion is. The Clinton's are not like that).
She's a terrible politician really and could blow it on the campaign but I don't really know if that is a bad quality to have. She isn't "inspiring" but neither was George H.W. Bush.
While I don't think she would have this open desire to avoid war at all costs like Obama (which undermines his negotiating authority) I don't think she would be ready to go to war at the drop of a hat like most of the GOP crop who act like the Iraq War did not happen (These guys are already talking about War with Iran on the Hugh Hewitt show, Morning in America with Bill Bennett, etc.) In other words, I think she understands "Speak Softly but Carry a Big Stick" as opposed to "Speak Loudly and Bombastically while swinging a Big Stick around" which is how I perceive the GOP hawks whereas Obama "Speaks Softly and makes it Clear He has no desire to Use the Big Stick."
She worked in the private sector. she has basically been a Chief of Staff in the White House and in State Government already. She developed ample experience working with the other side while in the minority in the Senate and she was the point man in moving American Foreign Policy in a more diplomatic direction away from the mistakes of the Bush years that undermined our moral authority as the "Just Hegemon."
Do I think she is a transformative president like FDR or Teddy Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan? No. But, I think she would do a competent job and solidify the end of the Reagan Epoch that collapsed with the second Bush Administration.
In the broad sense presidential elections are in a lot of ways about the Party generally...so long as there is somebody who is not a complete incompetent at the top. The goal of a primary is hopefully to make sure that a bumbling idiot like Biden or an open bomb-thrower like Sanders or Warren is not the man at the top...and I don't think Clinton is either of those.
A Clinton Administration will generally accept the premises of modern central banking and nominate people like Janet Yellen and Ben Bernanke. They will accept the broad consensus on climate change. They accept a secular understanding of the world. They will accept post-Lochner Constitutional Law and not undo the moderate reforms of the Obama years that eliminated the market failure/injustice of sick people being unable to buy private health insurance due to "pre-existing conditions" and systemically dangerous shadow banking (I.e. GE getting back into doing what they do best and out of shadow finance due to Dodd-Frank is a good thing).
I also think she will keep the ball rolling toward criminal justice reform and drug decriminalization/legalization and other things that will generally make America a little bit better for the average person.
Interestingly enough, I don't think I would really be all that opposed to Jeb Bush either...seems more like George H.W. Bush than Reagan/W/Romney and he doesn't have the backing of the more hawkish folks that backed Romney and who it seems like are falling behind Rubio i.e. Krauthammer who has predicted a Rubio victory.
