CMK: I agree that she was not weak, but I’ll respectfully suggest that her history as Bill’s aide-de-camp and involvement with Wal-Mart showed her to be less progressive on labor issues than Biden.

Not to be rude to Michael whom I respect very much, but in 2012 Hillary Clinton was the most popular politician in the country and had a viral meme. In 2020, numerous people said that Biden was so great he should have run in 2016. The weaknesses of these candidates pale to the weakness in us.

I'm constantly marveling at Trump's luck as a politician. He only won in 2016 because he ran against one of the Democrats' weakest candidates. In 2024 he ends up running against someone even weaker.

This is a rant I have had for a while, but the first First Lady with a postgraduate degree, Watergate lawyer, children’s rights activist, US Senator and Secretary of State was not a weak fucking candidate. She was more progressive than Biden in every conceivable way. She got fucked over.

I agree that she was not weak, but I’ll respectfully suggest that her history as Bill’s aide-de-camp and involvement with Wal-Mart showed her to be less progressive on labor issues than Biden.

Completely agree, and yet I think her pick for labor would have been pro-labor in unexpected ways. And here’s one thing I liked about her in particular: If you complain to her, she listens and changes.

Perhaps, but it was reported after the election that she was considering Howard Schultz for Secretary of Labor: slate.com/news-and-pol...

If Leaked List Is Accurate, Hillary’s Cabinet Choices Would Have Enraged the Democratic Leftslate.com Former Politico staffer Mike Allen has published, via his new Axios newsletter, a list of what he says are the names of individuals who were being...

I don’t hold any credit to that for two reasons: The source The way she would have backtracked so hard once the reaction happened; she has no appetite for fighting her left when the right is gunning for her

That’s how I feel about HRC as well. She’s open to listening and changing. Which is better than 98% of people who share her generation and background.

In the emailz! saga, my favorite thing was seeing how thoroughly she followed up on every single lead she got. It was the correspondence of an exceptional public servant! It was very boring! That’s why they had to make up a nebulous sinister controversy to create drama.

Exactly! She was policy wonk, constituent services, and concerned grandmother in those emails. What’s not to like?!

also had a bad habit for a politician in she'd clearly do quiet good deeds, at least once at potential risk to her life, and someone in campaign staff would find out, and she wouldn't want them publicized.

Bad trait for a politician, but ironically a good sign of character.

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