Reply #44: I agree we need a manager that is inspirational...When JFK took the

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reigns, it was a "brave new world", there was discord on the horizon, but most of the country saw the light on the hill, we saw what we could be if we aspired to a goal.

Kennedy had his faults, as did LBJ, but Johnson tried desperately to work in Civil Rights while micromanaging a distant and unpopular civil war. Funny, but I saw a thing on Johnson the other day, and I saw him in a different light than I did all those years ago, he cared about the country, about poverty, Civil Rights and the infrastructure. He could certainly be an asshole, but he had a vision too.

As for Hillary, I don't think she's electable for several reasons:

1. Baggage, TONS of it

2. Expectations are high for the first female pres, while I think she could handle this, once again, baggage, and like you said half of congress throwing banana peels at her feet.

3. People are not going to vote in another bush, nor will they vote in another Clinton, I think the days of "relationship" presidents is finally over.

4. We DO need inspiration, we are a people that loves inspiration, if we fail at the attempt, we feel great while trying to get to where we want to be. Hillary is just not that inspiring to me. I think Tipper Gore and Elizabeth Edwards on the female side of things are far more inspiring...they have warm embracing smiles, they enjoy their lives; w/Hillary I feel uninspired and cold.

Whomever the next president is, he/she should not be elected to be the "first" of whatever, he/she should be elected because they have a record of accomplishment that will wash away the years of failure of the present administration.