Is Not A History of Demonstrated Good Judgement Fundamental To Being President?

should disqualify her. Her many other lapses are just the icing on the cake.

On Benghazi... Hillary failed to pay attention to, interpret appropriately and act to preemptively address the ongoing risks to our personnel to prevail thus setting the stage for the disaster that in the end took place. Neglect, poor judgement leading to unnecessary risk, based on the SOS's need to secure political points at the risk to embassy personnel. Bernie would have been personally engaged and decisive well before the elements came together for the final catastrophe.

This fiasco did not occur overnight but rather was the end result of a deteriorating political and security environment that was not adequately addressed by the person at the top of the decision chain... Hillary Clinton.

Hillary likes to talk about being a leader... but for someone who invariably places her political needs above those of the nation and our representatives/personnel, she most often fails to effectively and objectively evaluate risk thereby resulting in inappropriate decision making.


In summary, there would more likely than been NO Benghazi to discuss, because it would have been handled in a timely and effective fashion had Bernie Sanders been in the position of Secretary of State. Moreover, the whole Libya thing (warmongering/regime change) by HRC would not have been undertaken by Sanders.

Again, Judgement is the key. Bernie has it while Hillary has demonstrated that she clearly does not.

Such acts as "Regime Change" should be discussed with some degree of solemnity rather than chuckled over as is evident here. Another example of unscripted and poor judgement... for someone who wants to be President. Just my opinion...

In a word... YES!

pay for it all! That is huge!!!! While he was on Joe's show, many republicans called in saying he is their second choice if their repub doesn't make it. You MUST have crossover votes. Hillary doesn't really get them, or enough independents.

This is because of her past decisions. How she handles her work and the explanations that she gives for her decisions, hurt her even more.

OP is spot on. She may have experience but while doing the work she showed poor judgment for sure.

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Martin O'Malley:

1. Ended death penalty in Maryland
2. Prevented fracking in Maryland and put regulations in the way to prevent next GOP Gov Hogan fom easily allowing fracking.
3. Provided health insurance for 380,000
4. Reduced infant mortality to an all time low.
5. Provided meals to thousands of hungry children and moved toward a goal for eradicating childhood hunger.
6. Enacted a $10.10 living wage and a $11. minimum wage for State workers.
7. Supporter the Dream Act
8. Cut income taxes for 86% of Marylanders (raised taxes on the rich).
9. Reformed Maryland’s tax code to make it more progressive.
10. Enacted some of the nation’s most comprehensive reforms to protect homeowners from foreclosure.

Mother Jones magazine called him the best candidate on environmental issues.
Article here:
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/12/martin-omalley-longshot-presidential-candidate-and-real-climate-hawk

However, He should probably be bowing out soon to remove himself as a "buffer" between Hillary and Bernie.

I've always suspected that her IWR vote probably influenced others in Congress to vote that way as they naturally assumed she had discussed the status of Iraq with her husband, who had received top-level security briefings only a couple years earlier. Nations don't develop WMD programs overnight so Bill should have had a good idea what was going on in Iraq. Add to that influence Clinton friend Tony Blair who also had access to top-level British intelligence, and together they misled an awful lot of people into a catastrophic mistake, perhaps the biggest foreign policy mistake in U.S. history.

Gaddafi did threaten the mass murder of civilians in Benghazi, and I don't blame Obama for protecting them from that. The problem seemed to be mission creep until allied planes were bombing targets all over Libya in support of the rebels. I believe Hillary as SOS bears some responsibility for allowing it to grow like that.

Her naive proposal of a no-fly zone [strike]over Syria[/strike] in Russian air space over Syria sounds like a repeat of her policy choice on Libya, suggesting that she still thinks it turned out well in Libya and she would do it again. Ugh.

(That you, Manny? )

If people feel that a record of making quality decisions based on incisive and qualitatively superior judgements is not important, I find it difficult to imagine what other characteristic would be... MORE IMPORTANT? Especially given Hillary's impressive record of making poor decisions over the course of several decades...

? Waiting to see what Hillary tries to get away with in this "set up" Town Hall tonight?

Fear of opposition.

Consistently bad, that is. Libya takes the cake AFAIC. It borders on war crimes.