What the September 11, 2001 attacks didn’t interrupt, they changed forever, and never for the better. One thing they interrupted was an 18 year string of Hillary Clinton being the most admired woman in the world. For one brief year, that honor went to First Lady Laura Bush.
I don’t put much stock in Gallup polls, especially in recent years where their record has been horrible. But I don’t think we have to quibble much here; Hillary Clinton is very famous and extremely popular.
When she’s not running for president, she’s even fairly popular among Republicans, despite having been accused of murder and numerous other nefarious crimes. The Republicans even seem to like her husband fairly well, now that he isn’t tormenting them in his State of the Union speeches. Bill Clinton was, after all, a Democrat that they could work with.
The truth is, it doesn’t matter what a Democrat stands for or what their record might be, if they are trying to run for president or be president, then they are the worst people ever.
But most of the country and most of the world does not feel the same way about Hillary Clinton. And that’s going to be a problem for the Republicans, and for any Democrat who is thinking about trying to deny her the nomination.
She could be her own worst enemy, but it looks to me like she is the only one formidable enough to derail her own ambitions.
