Try2B_Comprehensive:
My 2 cents: I think that Hillary can be fierce and hard-edged. I can’t put my finger on exactly what Obama has that Hillary doesn’t, but whatever it is, I think Hillary will be a less demure and passive-seeming president than him (focusing on the optics too much is unfair to Obama though, I think he does a good job without needing a lot of attention). We’ve had 8 years of this obstructionist bullshit, Hillary has been at a high level in politics that whole time, but with real presidential power, I don’t know, I just think she will approach America’s problems with force . I really do.
I think she will at least appear more pointed in confronting obstructionism. She won’t just have her own abilities, she’ll have Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and inherit an incumbent’s administration. I think she will be a tough, powerful president. She doesn’t just have the knowledge and experience of power to wield it effectively, she has the math and science on her side, and the weight of precedent. Trickle-down economics doesn’t work- common sense could have told us that before we tried it, but we did, and it doesn’t. Of course climate change isn’t a hoax- if you can follow the argument you can see that. Government can create jobs without becoming the USSR because, look! We’ve been doing it the whole time! She’ll pursue the right policies with focus and vigor, and the trogs can just gnash their teeth, too bad.
It is true that my view boils down partly to a perception or a feeling. But I think Hillary would be formidable as president, somebody people might hesitate to fuck with, somebody that will get things done.
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