Honest question to anyone saying they will vote for HRC in 2016, even if your views are way left with hers, what is it that inspires confidence that she can be a positive leader for the country? What specifically did she do in her time at the State department as for as great accomplishments? I am seriously trying to understand, no sarcasm.

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Posted by wfeliciana

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Posted on 7/12/14 at 10:53 pm to bigbowe80

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Honest question to anyone saying they will vote for HRC in 2016, even if your views are way left with hers, what is it that inspires confidence that she can be a positive leader for the country? What specifically did she do in her time at the State department as for as great accomplishments? I am seriously trying to understand, no sarcasm.

Well I'll give it a shot, but I probably won't do her justice. First, if you think HRC is way left then you really don't know her. In fact she's not loved by the far left of the Ds' She's a very pragmatic Democrat. She was great in the Senate, she worked very hard and she's very smart. She reached across the aisle all the time. Take a look sometimes at what other Republican senators had to say about her. Many Rs have gone on record (including Secty Gates, John McCain, etc.) to praise her intelligence, common sense, hard work, and willingness to solve problems.

There are accomplishments at State contrary to what most say, but the main thing she did in my opinion is that she made the world respect us again. Face it, after Iraq and Cheney, the world didn't have a great opinion of us. She is recognized and admired the world over.

ETA: One more thing-she is tough as nails.

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Posted by Smalls

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Posted on 7/12/14 at 11:05 pm to bigbowe80

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Honest question to anyone saying they will vote for HRC in 2016, even if your views are way left with hers, what is it that inspires confidence that she can be a positive leader for the country? What specifically did she do in her time at the State department as for as great accomplishments? I am seriously trying to understand, no sarcasm.

I think she would be more cooperative with Congress and actually get things done for the country. Obama is an academic who hates politics, while HRC is a bureaucrat who loves the political game. She'll be willing to compromise, make deals, and work with Congress, assuming the House 'tards can be contained.

I don't think you necessarily need great accomplishments as a predictor of success in the presidency. I can't name any MAJOR accomplishments from her time at State, but I'm not sure major accomplishments are needed. I think you have to look at the person's experience on the whole. Her whole life has been in politics. In the last 20+ years alone, 8 years in the WH, 8 in the Senate, 4 at State. She knows how the machine works.

It also helps that, aside from her views on abortion, which probably do not align with my own, we would agree on most policy issues, i.e. creating an environment favorable to business development while protecting the American worker and expanding the middle class.

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