Ms Clinton, No Contest
It's amazing, the conceit that people have, that this years-long campaigning is important in choosing the person most qualified to be the U.S. President. In reality all the speeches, strategies, polling, primaries, and what not in large part are highly wasteful of all sorts of things, and they rarely count for much in the last analysis, which is performance in office, once that person is elected.
For instance, in the campaign eight years ago, did GW Bush say, “If elected, I will invade Iraq, and a rational reason be damned?” No, he absolutely did not, to my recollection. Instead he said all sorts of other things, all of which are now long forgotten, while that greatest of war crimes committed by any person wielding the powers of the Presidency is the one big mark and legacy of his time in office.
Actually, as far as the eventual results are concerned, making the Presidential choice is very simple, and little different from thinking over the neighbors on your road ...or being a personnel director.
When a person applies for a job, the first and often the last question employers ask is what kind of experience does the applicant have in that field.
On that basis alone, Hillary Clinton is the winner by a long shot. Unlike the other aspirants in either party, she even has the rare great advantage of having so much experience in operating out of the White House that it is almost unfair. She is more experienced in that respect than any Presidential wife in recent history, due to the eight years of constant acid-throwing that she and her husband had to weather from the unrelentingly hostile Republicans on the most flimsy of pretenses. And weather it that duo did, and what's more, in fine style, so that only the most obdurate of her conservative opponents can argue that at the end of Bill Clinton's two terms, the country wasn't in immeasurably better shape then than it is today or will be 11 months from now when a new President is sworn in. Just two counts alone show that – the Govermental red ink wasn't nearly as deep, and the country wasn't mired down in multiple military quicksands on the other side of the world, in countries that were invaded by U.S. officials for the most specious of reasons.
Employers also look for signs of character. I would argue that again Hillary Clinton has been tested and given a passing grade more than any of the other candidates. I would never deny McCain's years in a prison camp, but, in spite of the shock and unending derision that I know such a statement would draw, I would claim that the rigors he endured there were in many ways not as painful or as much of a test of his mettle as were the more numerous psychological stabs and hits that Hillary Clinton has had to endure from McCain's playmates in the mudpile, and for a much longer time. And anyway I have questions about the five years of torture that McCain is said to have endured. If he was tortured that much, how could he possibly be still alive, and not only that but also still in possession of his sanity and all his faculties? Torture is an extremely heavyweight business, and after that much of it, there shouldn't be much if anything of a person left, no matter what he's made of. I am still looking for a good answer to that question.
Employers also look for intelligence. If an intelligence test applicable to the knowledge that a person should have to be President was available, I would defy any of Hillary Clinton's opponents to beat her out – or to be quicker than she in coming up with the right answers. In fact it is precisely the superiority of her intelligence to that of all but a very tiny number of American males that has always worked against her.
Therefore when you think about it, there's no contest. Hillary Clinton should be hired for the job as U.S. President by her prospective employers, the American electorate. If she's not chosen, it will mean that they are the ones who will have been out to lunch, not her.
For instance, in the campaign eight years ago, did GW Bush say, “If elected, I will invade Iraq, and a rational reason be damned?” No, he absolutely did not, to my recollection. Instead he said all sorts of other things, all of which are now long forgotten, while that greatest of war crimes committed by any person wielding the powers of the Presidency is the one big mark and legacy of his time in office.
Actually, as far as the eventual results are concerned, making the Presidential choice is very simple, and little different from thinking over the neighbors on your road ...or being a personnel director.
When a person applies for a job, the first and often the last question employers ask is what kind of experience does the applicant have in that field.
On that basis alone, Hillary Clinton is the winner by a long shot. Unlike the other aspirants in either party, she even has the rare great advantage of having so much experience in operating out of the White House that it is almost unfair. She is more experienced in that respect than any Presidential wife in recent history, due to the eight years of constant acid-throwing that she and her husband had to weather from the unrelentingly hostile Republicans on the most flimsy of pretenses. And weather it that duo did, and what's more, in fine style, so that only the most obdurate of her conservative opponents can argue that at the end of Bill Clinton's two terms, the country wasn't in immeasurably better shape then than it is today or will be 11 months from now when a new President is sworn in. Just two counts alone show that – the Govermental red ink wasn't nearly as deep, and the country wasn't mired down in multiple military quicksands on the other side of the world, in countries that were invaded by U.S. officials for the most specious of reasons.
Employers also look for signs of character. I would argue that again Hillary Clinton has been tested and given a passing grade more than any of the other candidates. I would never deny McCain's years in a prison camp, but, in spite of the shock and unending derision that I know such a statement would draw, I would claim that the rigors he endured there were in many ways not as painful or as much of a test of his mettle as were the more numerous psychological stabs and hits that Hillary Clinton has had to endure from McCain's playmates in the mudpile, and for a much longer time. And anyway I have questions about the five years of torture that McCain is said to have endured. If he was tortured that much, how could he possibly be still alive, and not only that but also still in possession of his sanity and all his faculties? Torture is an extremely heavyweight business, and after that much of it, there shouldn't be much if anything of a person left, no matter what he's made of. I am still looking for a good answer to that question.
Employers also look for intelligence. If an intelligence test applicable to the knowledge that a person should have to be President was available, I would defy any of Hillary Clinton's opponents to beat her out – or to be quicker than she in coming up with the right answers. In fact it is precisely the superiority of her intelligence to that of all but a very tiny number of American males that has always worked against her.
Therefore when you think about it, there's no contest. Hillary Clinton should be hired for the job as U.S. President by her prospective employers, the American electorate. If she's not chosen, it will mean that they are the ones who will have been out to lunch, not her.
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