2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Looking back I, personally, see no benefit to Democrats from Sanders or his supporters [View all]radical noodle
(8,605 posts)That is not true at all.
Would she have been able to get everything everyone wanted? Of course not. If you want to get something done, we have to compromise without losing sight of the ultimate goal.
I don't remember people saying she wouldn't have to fight for what we wanted, we said she knew how to fight that fight. She had proven she could do it with things like the children's insurance program. Sanders had been more inflexible which would result in exactly the same thing we've had; more gridlock with nothing accomplished.
Bill did some good things. He raised taxes on the wealthy. He created a lot of jobs. Unemployment for everyone (including AAs) went down. He appointed a lot of women and minorities in higher places. BUT we should never use that old assumption that a woman is the same as her husband. I lived with a drunken pathological liar for 19 years but I was a responsible hard working non-drinker. No women wants to be judged by what her husband has done. She would have been a better president than Bill was.