Unworthy

To those concerned about Hillary Clinton's pursuit of the presidency, because of the "it's time for a woman president," perhaps such concern is misplaced.

Some compare 2015 to 2007, when a charismatic young black man began his run for the presidency.  In making the comparison, the concerned offer that people will vote for Clinton simply because it is viewed as "time to elect a woman president," just as they assume Obama became president because it was "time to elect a black president."  Maybe.  But there is a major difference between 2007-08 and 2015-16.

Obama had done nothing.  He had been a community organizer.  He taught law school.  He was a state legislator who voted "present" more often than not.  He was a first term senator with virtually nothing on his resume.  Because of the wholesale lack of experience, there were no major decisions to criticize, no errors in judgment upon which to capitalize, no senior legislative actions to dissect, no failures to dig up, and no tough votes to analyze.  Unlike Clinton, Obama was allowed to run solely on charisma and vague promises of hope and change, not on any record.

Clinton, on the other hand, has a record decades long that will be examined in minute detail.  This examination will include looking at sleazy financial dealings while Secretary of State, lying about landing under fire in Bosnia, Whitewater, email server, Benghazi, her record as a senator, her time as First Lady, supporting the likes of Anthony Weiner, paying female staffers less than male staffers, staying with a philandering husband, lavish lifestyle, inauthentic actions, general hypocrisy, reset with Russia, and many, many other areas.  Such examination will not be kind to her, because of her checkered, questionable, and failed history.  In other words, her record will be seen to be negative.  

With the inevitable negatives arising from the examination, can her campaign survive and succeed based on charisma that wins over the electorate?  The short answer is a resounding no.  Her grating personality, propensity for lying, aloofness, distrust of the media, reported vindictiveness, and very apparent sense of self importance and entitlement disqualify any personality based campaign.

So the "it's time to elect a woman" will fail, not because a woman can not or should not be president, but because Hillary Clinton is unworthy of being elected president.