01-20-2016, 03:21 AM
vision63 wrote: I personally know exceptional people that has worked for her in the White House and as part of her Senate staff. I would think the jury is out for her to distinguish herself.
Look at her State Department record. A real leadership position. First weeks, she cleaned house of most of the lifers in the top echelons and replaced them with political allies. Her major initiative in the State Department was promoting civilian paramilitary forces not subject to the rules of war and she pushed for NGOs to replace government aid in disaster-relief as a cost-saving measure. She fired people for reading their own memos on Wikileaks and refused to allow any of her senior appointees to be punished for Benghazi mistakes (not saying she was responsible for the deaths) because "We fixed it at the assistant secretary level."
On the plus side, she increased diversity hires, the State Department opened up to more women and she made inroads in Iran which later resulted in the nuclear/sanctions deal.
Basically, she's not a finisher and her initiatives were a net drag.