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Hilary isn't a great politician. She doesn't have the natural feel for public speaking or campaigning like her husband or obama. It's not her fault it's something you are born with and something I feel was greatly exposed in the 2008 Race. However she will have so much Wall Street money, massive electoral advantage, the making history angle as advantages that she would have to run a 2000 al gore level bad campaign to lose and even I don't think that would be enough
For a long time a figured that she just wanted people to think she was running, and then monetize that belief via speaking fees. She'll be 69 on election day, has had some serious health problems, has millions in the bank and a new grandchild...why would she want to run for prez and lock herself into 5.5 years of 20 hour work days at age 69? But I became convinced she really did want to run when I read that she was doing yoga in order to try to prepare for the physical demands of a campaign. That is the kind of detail that she probably wouldn't think to make up if Hillary 2016 had just been a charade to collect speaking fees.
There is only one explanation for her decision: the addictive power of power. I've done a lot of reading on Hillary in the past months, and the more I read, the more I see her as post-ideological and just about acquiring and wielding power. When Pres. Obama asked to be Secretary of State, at first she turned it down. Her one demand was not anything about foreign policy approach, but that she have the right to fill top state dept. slots with her friends and allies, not Obama's. Her central value appears not to be anything about left vs. right, foreign aid, military intervention, or anything ideological. Instead it is loyalty to and from friends and allies. I guess that is good in a way, because the past eight years with a persuaded left-wing ideologue in the WH have been a disaster.
You what I find really funny?
Hillary is not running against anyone, but herself.
She has no accomplishments, other than failure after failure, to run on.
All this time, and all you could do is post a picture. You had days to prepare for this moment, come on man.
Posting a close-up of 67 year old woman's wrinkles. Classy zinger there, just the start GOP's sexist & childish anti-Hillary campaign.
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