Stop Trashing Clinton's Management Skills
Mar 10, 2015 12:41 PM EDT
By Jonathan Bernstein
Hillary Clinton has pulled off one of the most impressive accomplishments in U.S. political history: She has unified her party around her, perhaps securing the presidential nomination earlier and more easily than any politician ever.
Naturally, the press has concluded she doesn’t know what she’s doing.
New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait wonders what the flap about her e-mail “reveals about her political judgment and managerial acumen.” David Corn at Mother Jones says her attitudes (and Bill Clinton's) amount to a “testy, overly sensitive, secretive and aggressive approach to the rest of the political-media world.” Paul Waldman of the American Prospect has similar criticism.
And that’s just from the liberals! Even political scientist Brendan Nyhan at the Upshot wonders whether the botched health-care plan in 1993-1994 reveals a deep problem with Clinton’s executive abilities.
Enough already. Yes, it's fair to examine her record for evidence of how she might perform as president, but most of these comments are one-sided and near-sighted. Regardless of what storm the media kicks up today from her press conference on the e-mail issue, let's look at the bigger picture.
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