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0 pointsmercer8y ago0 comments

I've always been sympathetic to the concerns of Hillary fans around me (misogyny, partisan smearing, etc.), but for me one good reason I wouldn't have voted for her, and one that I'm kind of surprised I don't hear more often, is that it just strikes me as fundamentally wrong for the partner of a former president to become president. We're talking about the USA, not some small village with ten inhabitants, or North Korea.

Am I wrong about having so much difficulty with this?

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uncletaco8y ago

I think there's room for nuance; particularly because the partners are both of the same political organization and each has governing experience under their belts: one as an executive and the other as a legislator and high-level appointee.

Now if we had a situation like in Alabama where George Wallace used his dying wife to get around term limits then I would call it grade A fuckery; but the Clintons were both qualified to hold the office on their own merits, marriage not withstanding.

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