As far as being obvious a candidate "has what it takes", objectively it's pretty friggin hard to argue HRC has been displaying anything remotely resembling that, lately.
The simple fact of the matter is, she has the Clinton name, but she doesnt have her husband's political chops. But she does have his playbook of equivocation and triangulation and avoiding taking clear and principled stands on potentially contentious issues even when the polls say otherwise (sometimes known as "leadership"
.. It's not ridiculous, and it's not "Clinton-hate", to go back 10 years and ask who this person is- the person who gave speeches about ''the foundation of marriage is a man and a woman", whose legislative priorities included shit like outlawing flag burning.
You want to get into personal history, sure- i stood with 60,000 other people at the Daley Center in Chicago, 23 years ago next month, to see Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Tipper Gore, and... Hillary Clinton. The electricity, the energy, the enthusiasm, was palpable. Maybe we wanted a pony, we wanted unicorns, we definitely wanted real change.
and I LIKED Hillary Clinton. Shit, I still do, but maybe not as much.
You know who is generating that kind of enthusiasm, those kind of crowds, now? Bernie Sanders.
Still, I suspect you're right- odds are at least decent that Hillary will be the nominee. Which is one reason why I think it's imperative that she do a better job than the craptastic campaign she's run so far.
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