2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What happens if Hillary Clinton doesn’t run for president? Chaos. [View all]SheilaT
(23,156 posts)I, for one, sincerely hopes she does not run. I do not get the way so many here think she is going to be God's gift to the Democratic Party in two years.
She was far from that in '08, when an awful lot of posters here assumed that just because she was running she would win. Notice, she didn't.
It's not only her age that's against her. I'm all of a year younger, I'm in excellent health, and I wouldn't be considering going for what's one of the more difficult jobs out there in two years.
But my biggest objection is that she brings nothing new to the table. It's bad enough that Obama kept on far too many from previous administrations. With Hillary we'd be reaching back nearly thirty years. Bill Clinton's theme song was "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow". I'm afraid that hers would be something along the lines of "Don't Do Anything but Look Back". I don't think there's an actual song out there with that title, but that's what the theme would be.
We need new choices, new people.