Really -- so you vote for candidates based on what they look like?
And candidates that aren't even running for anything too. That's deep, man.
You need to turn in your voter registration card. Clearly some people can't handle it.
I agree...we should look at her accomplishments rather than her looks. Could you help me out with her accomplishments?
I always have to laugh at the "Accomplishments" meme that comes from Hillary haters. The meme goes that Hillary hasn't done anything to speak of and is somehow just riding on her husband's coattails.
25 years later and it is clear that had major healthcare reform been able to pass then, we'd have saved money, had a healthier society, and in turn a more productive one. She was right about healthcare and ahead of all of us on the issue. On that issue alone, she qualifies as the best to hand over healthcare related issues to as President.
Remember "Gulf War Syndrome"? When our people were coming back from the first Gulf War, many of them were suffering a various range of acute illnesses. "Gulf War Syndrome" became common knowledge because of the efforts she made as First Lady to put it in the headlines and to pressure Washington to do something about it.
From adoption and foster care reforms, Hillary was always in the lead on those things.
As a baseball card stat alone, she's the only First Lady in the country's history to later win a senate seat.
As a senator she showed a willingness to work with Republicans on a variety of issues. It was rather common knowledge that she was surprisingly well-liked among most senators, including Republicans. She knew how to horse-trade, which is a quality she would bring as President that Obama doesn't really have. He's not from that era where you call people incessantly to get their vote on something in exchange for free stuff for their state. That era ended under Obama, but with times getting better and deficits getting smaller and smaller every passing month now (some months we're actually going into surplus again) old-time horse-trading is going to be a thing again and Hillary's the right one for that job.
Could there have been a better person as NY senator post-9/11? Who she was only helped to secure tens of billions of dollars in re-investment money for the area at the time. It didn't hurt at the time to have a senator with huge star power. It was her leadership that helped 9/11 first responders get the help they need and the funding for the ailments they incurred in the weeks following their efforts at Ground Zero. It is the same funding that Republicans have decided repeatedly to attack and cut at the expense of our first responders' real health problems.
As Secretary of State, when Egypt became the hot spot, the most useful person in the world all of a sudden became Hillary Clinton having a direct line to Hosni Mubarak's wife, who she got to know well from the 90's. Once Obama handed that hot potato to Hillary, Hillary became the shoehorn of that entire transition that saw Mubarak give up power and leave. There simply could not have been a better person in that specific job at that moment in history than Hillary Clinton.
Her single greatest achievement as Sec. of State though was her work on the international stage, repairing the damage done to America's reputation and standing around the world by the Bush administration. She visited 112 countries and did the grunt work of having to re-earn trust that had been lost by 8 years of disastrous American leadership that made the world more violent and gave us the Great Recession.
It is not easy building trust and consensus with foreign countries. Every country has their own issues. But Hillary did an outstanding job of getting the world back on board with who we really are, which is not a chest-beating nation of warmongers, but a just nation that once again would return to diplomacy and negotiations and use violence only as a last resort.
Is there another candidate who has cultivated as many international relationships the last two decades than her and who is eligible to run? Apart from Biden, I can't think of any.
The GOP candidates apart from Jeb are a weak field. I'd put Walker in the strong camp if he didn't sound so stupid on matters of foreign policy. Like Romney and Jindal and Christie before him, he too went to England and made an ass of himself. You know it's bad for the GOP when even the conservative PM of England is calling you a joke.
With Hillary we don't have to worry about that crap.
On the matter of physical attraction, I'll always vote for an ugly smart person over an asshole in a nice suit.