as Nikki Finke would say "TOLD YA SO"... Jeb Bush mulling presidential bid

[JDPriestly]

66. I have warned.

Hillary admirers may deny what I am saying, but Obama beat Hillary in the 2008 primaries for a reason. Just saying.

And, although he was the worst president ever, GWB did have warmth. That was the problem. People wanted to have a beer or coffee or whatever with him.

I don't think people will feel that way about Hillary because I don't think she feels that way about people. Bill did.

Elizabeth Warren does.

If you have ever met, Xavier Becerra, he also does. There are quite a few people who meet this particular criteria that means winning presidential elections.

Chris Christie absolutely does not.

Hillary and Al Gore are great people, but they don't have this certain something. Neither did Nixon. You are right about that. Reagan had it (unfortunately). FDR had it big time.

Great performers have it. No. They aren't all nice, and they aren't all competent. It is in part, the ability to lose your ego just for that moment when you meet someone, when you shake someone's hand, when you talk to someone. It is the ability to make the other person the center of your world, the crowd you are talking to the center of the world and give yourself completely to them.

Great musicians, great performers have this ability to lose themselves in love for their audiences and their art. It is a rare capacity and is more spiritual than intellectual. Hillary might be able to learn it, but so far I have not seen her practice it.