is hillary really *that bad*?

[minionofmidas]

Hillary is not "that bad". But she's been so demonized by the press that she is unelectable. She would be a decent president (certainly 100X better than Bush) but I don't think she should run. She could be very effective if she keeps her Senate seat.

Plus, I don't like legacies (like Dubya) for president.

Eh, I don't think you can quantify it like that, so I'd have left the 100x better than Bush part out (and if Bush's a negative, that makes her a hundred times as bad, right? ), but apart from that this is pretty much my point of view too.

[minionofmidas]

She is incredible popular abroad

Nope.

[minionofmidas]

Tarazis - yeah, America is  a lot like India in that respect ... the Indian newspapers' international news page is usually over 2/3 Pakistan.

RJ - What's puzzling you, my comment itself or my quoting error that threw up your name in that post? If the latter, my apologies. If the first, no she's not. The idea of electing the former first lady to the presidency leaves people in civilised countries feeling rather bemused. (OF course, the fairly common practice in the US of electing or nominating spouses of deceased politicians is seen as totally weird here as well.) And that's pretty much as far as any discussion of Hilary over here goes...