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Not. No. Not even close. She has a shallow resume as a celebrity senator and Secty of State. Not much accomplished. What did HRC accomplish besides having a great resume? Teddy Roosevelt. Eisenhower beat Hitler. HRC Couldnt best Rupert Murdoch. Stevenson. Kerry. Mondale. GHWBush.

And I’ll remind you that Lincoln was a one term congressman who lost a senatorial election. She has the charisma of a turnip and never displayed an ability to relate to the public. She’s supposed to be smart but she couldn’t over come her smug sence of entitlement.

 

Noted right-wing magazine puts AOC on its cover and calls her a “phenom.”

AOC Is the New TIME Cover Star: Inside Her Office (Complete with Cardi B Cutout) and More Details

 

Yes and no. Superlatively or not, she certainly was qualified. I think she would have been an OK president, largely limited by a GOP-controlled Congress that would make the Obama years look like the "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" commercial. That still didn't make her a good candidate.

Her own party spoke up in 2008 when she lost the primaries to a lesser-known guy with a funny name but a wonderful gift of oratory. Any GOP candidate (including zombie Reagan) was doomed in '08. That was her time. The Dem voters took a look and said, "Nah, we're all set." Message received? Fuck no.

This was unacceptable to Hillary, and she and the DNC "leadership" made sure in 2016 that no other candidates could enter the fray, including the VP of a popular two-term president. Ironically, this lack of competition is what opened the door for Independent Bernie to throw his hat into the ring.

They ignored 20+ years of AM radio/Fox News/Drudge/Breitbart work that went into ensuring half the electorate l-o-a-t-h-e-d her and, more egregiously, ignored what *their own party* told them in 2008. Passionate hate from 1/2 the population and the indifference of seeming inevitability from most of the rest. Not a great recipe. Turns out "I'm a woman and it's my turn" isn't an inspiring platform. The DNC's target voters were lukewarm about her at best and yet they were still all I'M WITH HER THIS IS MY FIGHT SONG. Fucking insane.

All that said, we as a country done fucked up and continue to do so, perhaps even more so given what we know and have seen.

 

This isn't fake news apparently.

 

Oooh, Time Magazine! Can Newsweek be far behind?!

 

one of the great things about trump's interviews with Fox is that even though their mouth is firmly engaged in fellatio during the interview, trump is so diminutive that you can clearly hear everything the interviewer says.

 

Very much like the questions I ask when the analytics crowd swoons over a player. I don't give a flying eff how he looks on the spreadsheet, can he hit? Clinton is a spreadsheet superstar, but struggled on the campaign trail.

 

An absolutely golden opportunity to strike back with the facts --- "No, I wouldn't agree. You lost the popular vote and needed razor-thin margins in a half-dozen states to pull it out. You had one of the unlikeliest victories in history but hardly one of the greatest" --- and she fumbles it away.

 

Liars lying about the liar's lies about lying.

 

She didn't have to go that deep. When he started talking about McCain and saying it's all the media's fault for asking about it, she could have said "But didn't you spend five minutes talking about him at a speech the other day? Nobody asked you a question then, right?"