While I believe that the current President includes in his administration, people with true malice or self-interested ignorance, its also true that he includes loyal but incompetent people too...
such as Michael Brown, tragically enough for Louisiana, in the Katrina debacle.
Its been said that both sides of this 2008 Democratic Primary contest have run a hard or dirty campaign by their opponents. That somehow the biggest factors in the race have been the scandals such as Rev. Wright or Snipergate.
I don't buy it. I think that this was Clinton's campaign to lose, and her TEAM blew it.
Specifically, that her close advisers not only discounted her opponent in the early running, pre-Iowa, but simply failed to adequately compete in caucus contests.
Caucuses don't matter. Maybe not to you. How about those delegates though?
So.. here is my question. If Clinton cannot adequately manage and deal with campaign advisers, how can we believe she'll deal well building and managing a team if she's elected president?
I don't think she's a bad person, in the least, or that she has bad motives when it comes to the nation. I don't believe she has good management skills or any notion of what makes an effective delegate.
Ultimately it doesn't matter what she intends if she were POTUS, because the majority of minutia decisions that are made, the ones that really affect people, will be made by people that she chooses. I'd like people to somehow reassure me that she doesn't have a knack of surrounding herself with, to put it plainly, loyal but less able people...
just like Bush did with Michael Brown and many others.