October 29, 2016 ·
I’ll vote for Hillary not because I like her but because Biden chose not to run and Trump thinks that he can be fuhrer. She is so obsessed with secrecy that she thought a personal server was like a personal conversation. She should have learned from Tricky Dick that there is no such thing as absolute privacy anymore, important as that is in the web of international relations. None of that makes her any worse, or unamerican, or more criminal than other politicians. She’s just been targeted where other dedicated politicians haven’t been because it has been assumed for years that she would be the Democratic candidate. Politics and government service is a complex and nasty world with few saints here and a bunch of worse guys for friends / enemies overseas with their own national and personal priorities. She has shown rather poor judgement and bitchiness it is true but she is certainly more qualified than Trump with his childish temper, quick judgement, self importance, incompetence, ignorance, and general nastiness, etc. etc. etc. Not only do I miss Ike, I miss every president, Democrat or Republican, since FDR but Hillary at least comes closer. After all a president doesn’t have to be likable to be effective. Were it not for Watergate that would be the judgement of history on Nixon.