2016 Postmortem
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I defer to nobody when it comes to being sanguine about our prospects in the upcoming election. The only thing that could derail a Hillary Clinton presidency is not an indictment that is never going to happen but a terrorist attack.
I think Hillary will come out okay but that is the ultimate wild card because we don't know if and when it occurs, where it will occur, and how the public will react.
P.S. Donald Trump is the last person in the world I would want in charge in a crisis but I am not vainglorious enough to think I speak for the entire electorate.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)world if Trump were to gain power as a result. But the irrationality is strong with that bunch.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)It's an end-times ideology, after all. Guessing they'd be thrilled if Trump were to be elected and no doubt see it as evidence they don't actually need that God is busy at work for them.
DemocratSinceBirth, I fairly often think of both natural and major economic and political events that could cause the nation to shift right in a fear reaction just before the election. Let's just hope Obama would be able to impress and reassure the nation with his competence again.
athena
(4,187 posts)I think it's very bad for Trump to be on the ballot at all. You never know what might happen. If he's on the ballot, he has a nonzero probability of being elected president. In his case, any nonzero probability is too high. I would be happy if he were replaced with a sensible Republican*. Hillary is strong enough a candidate this time around to beat anyone.
* The problem, of course, is that there was not a single sensible Republican among the contenders this time around.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)She's a very strong candidate.
floriduck
(2,262 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,705 posts)Even the Israelis don't go that far...
I hope nobody plants a bug in Trump's ear that they blow up the homes of terrorists.
randome
(34,845 posts)It's an over-used phrase that can mean whatever you want it to mean.
floriduck
(2,262 posts)MineralMan
(146,192 posts)Or is she trying her best to deal with a terrorist organization that uses suicide bombers and recruits locals to fight for it? As President, what would you do? I'm sorry, but simply calling her a "hawk" seems facile to me.
Describe your responses to international terrorist organizations, please, so we can discuss them. One word name calling seems inappropriate to me, somehow.
floriduck
(2,262 posts)Hillary's campaign. Go back and read that. I agree Trump is a lunatic but I doubt the military leaders would jump at his request to go bonkers on terrorists just because he'd be their CIC. There would be cooler heads available to just let him go off any deep end.
My original thought was that Hillary would not hesitate to take any necessary action. But she, too, would ask for military advise first.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)Cinton a "hawk." I consider that to be an attack on her.
floriduck
(2,262 posts)MineralMan
(146,192 posts)I don't understand.
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)538 give Clinton a 75% to 80% chance of winning. That looks about right to me. Those are good odds, but not as good as I'd like.