(August 16, 2017 at 5:31 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(August 16, 2017 at 3:28 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Yeah, I agree, but I am still in the "feel sorry for Hillary mode"; part of me is hoping that she will have another go (she would have run anyway had she won, right?), but the Democrats' best hope is a squeaky clean middle-age white guy.
Hillary was never the natural candidate. She lacked charisma. Her grasp of policy is dogmatic rather than insightful. None of her husband's mental or tactical ability rubbed off on her despite 40+ years of marriage. She is as aloof and inflexible as ever she had been as the student firebrand activist. The only reason why she is even a candidate is because she rode her husband's coattail to prominence and then assiduously had her tickets punched in order to make her own assault at the high office. But she didn't shine in any of those posts. She is like the Harvard MBA hired into an executive rotational programs where she only need to not fuck up too badly in several mid level management posts before somehow deemed qualified to become senior executive. But when she gets there you find she had learned little of how her company works and continue to spout the theories she learned in business school.
Yes, she would have been infinity raised to the googleplex power better than trump, but it is still hard to imagine that even in Democratic Party of today there is none better than her.
In a phrase, the Peter Principle at work.
