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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton Should go Down as the Greatest American Political Figure in History... [View all]Moonwalk
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...I don't mean that Trump is NOT one of the greatest threats to our nation. He absolutely is and his becoming president would certainly cause a lot of damage if not the end (totally depends on whether he'd get quickly impeached).
However, as Hillary keeps reminding us "Stronger Together" or "It takes a village." She didn't come up with that convention on her own. And she's already said that she'll take advice from anyone and everyone who can help her, like former president Obama. The buck will stop with her, as it must, but she's not going to pretend, as so many presidents do (*cough* George Bush*cough*) that she is some kind of lone maverick managing everything all on her own.
So, I'd say that the current democratic party should be named the greatest in American history, because it IS hanging together, and gathering in people from all sides, Sanders independents included, to fight off this monster. Hillary may be the U.S.A. in this re-fighting of WWII against Hitler, but America did not fight alone nor could it have won all on its own.
As Abe Lincoln had his team of rivals and great generals, as Kennedy had his brothers and brilliant NASA scientists (etc. etc. fill in your favorite President), so Hillary is captaining a ship that is being sailed by a great many crew. Whether she goes down as the greatest political figure because of this one success (let's hope it is thatno counting chickens here), remains to be seen. We don't know what she'll have to face while in office or how she'll handle it.
IMHO, no president or political figure can rightly be judged till they've finished their time in office.