2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I've never understood why Kerry did not face the same level of wrath from Democrats over [View all]SheilaT
(23,156 posts)One of the reasons Senator Obama beat Senator Clinton in 2008 was that not only did he not vote for war in Iraq (I know he wasn't in the Senate at that point) but he was on record as being against going to war.
I'm heartily sick of all opposition to Hillary Clinton being portrayed as sexist. Some of us, despite her being a woman, just aren't all that crazy about her, her history, her policies, and so on. A man with all those would equally be unloved, at least by me.
Plus, it really does matter what year you're talking about.
And keep in mind, that what's really fallen off the radar is the notion of a dynasty as being a less than desirable thing, now that it looks like we'll have a second Clinton Presidency, just like we had a second Bush Presidency. If Jeb Bush were becoming the Republican nominee, that issue would be front and center at this point, but he's not so it isn't.
Along those lines, among the things that very much bothered me at the very beginning of this campaign, meaning by the middle of 2013, is that the only potential candidates that were being suggested in either party were mostly retreads. I honestly think what we (at least we Democrats) mostly need are a genuine new generation of politicians and leaders.