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To be fair, I don't think she would have made a good president even if the electoral college didn't exist. She would have been better than Trump but that's not saying much, because a shit sandwich is better than Trump.
Why wouldn't she have been good? She was one of the few people in Congress that actually cared about understanding and enacting policy (ie actually getting stuff done). Her platform was the only one with actual details on how to accomplish the stated goals on a legal level.
Not that any of that matters now, since her comment here is pretty shit.
But I don't like the re-writing of history on how she was a million times better candidate than Trump and had a ton of made up conspiracy nonsense being claimed about her at the time.
The thing with Hillary Clinton is that, even conspiracy theories aside (because I'm not a conspiracy theorist), her morals are ambiguous. She is not "clean", with some questionable things she's done over the years, including some potential corruption.
Now, I'm not saying she's the most corrupt in the bunch, but she's not the saint that sometimes the Democrats make her out to be. I'm also not holding her to a higher standard, because that's bullshit, but what I'm saying is if we are taking the moral high ground here, we should pick a better mascot.
Ultimately it comes down to whether would she have been a better president than Trump? Without a doubt. But would she have been a good president? I'm not convinced.
Feel free to point out what corruption and morals you're referring to that aren't based on conspiracy theories or made up right wing mud-slinging then.
I remember a lot of the usual made up claims about her being anti-LGBT despite her long history of actually supporting the LGBT community (and voting or not voting for gay marriage in NYS is not a gotcha about her history or her reasons then).
It reminds me a lot of the made up nonsense about Biden's history with the African American community that right wingers and leftists were trying to mudsling over, yet said groups still being perplexed why he continued to have such massive support in said community. Because despite twisting of statements from decades ago, it was his actions that mattered. And that there's context to those actions (such as how the black community itself was the primary pushing force behind the 1994 crime bill).
What did she get wrong? The Iraq War vote was a huge one in my opinion, but of course this entire question depends on your individual values.
Really? You're bringing up that long since debunked canard? I can only assume you don't know anything about the context because you were a child when said vote happened.
Hint: That vote in question wasn't actually about allowing a war. And it didn't help that Bush actively lied about what intel we had from Iraq and Afghanistan. He really should have faced charges for that alongside Cheney.