re: #141 ggt

I really think we f—ked-up big time in not electing Hillary. It will be a long time before a female politician of her caliber will bother trying to be POTUS. There doesn’t seem to be the national confidence necessary for a qualified female to get elected.

Which makes us a chauvinistic nation. That saddens me.

Hillary damn near won the primary, and only lost because of issues relating to integrity (the sniper fire story), recanting her stance on MI & FL, and policy (her Iraq war vote.) Dismissing the caucus states didn’t help her either, but it was damned close. I do think now that she’d have been a more effective President in that she’d have faced less rabid opposition, just because there are more women in America than blacks with foreign fathers and funny names. She’d have been harder to marginalize and hate for many, more difficult to obstruct. She still would have faced a ridiculous level of irrational opposition, but Obama has been a kind of perfect storm for generating pure insanity among social conservatives.