Dan Martin
1 min readApr 4, 2022

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I gave you a clap just for the great tone of your reply, but I don't share your confidence that Hillary would be a great executive. I don't think she was the communicator her husband was by a long shot, and she was politically tone deaf as shown in her ill-fated health care proposal that almost cost Bill a second term.

And besides, knowing what to push for and sign into law is just as important as knowing how to. Lyndon Johnson was a great politician and communicator who was actually the one responsible for getting a lot of the Great Society legislation of JFK pushed through Congress, but he is the one who also got us into Vietnam in a big way.

If just excellence at the nuts and bolts of the Presidency were the sole criteria, then Mitch McConnell might be the most qualified person in the US, but I doubt many Hillary supporters would vote for him if he was the Republican nominee.

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Dan Martin

Retired. I know too little and think too much. Interested in theology, sanity in politics, science, and whatever shiny toy catches my eye at the moment.