Letters to the Editor
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Those numbers don't make me feel better
My concern about Hillary Clinton isn't her own negatives. It's that I think we've had enough, as a nation, of the particular degree and quality of polarization that has characterized both the Bill Clinton administration (loathed by the right and some middle) and the GW Bush administration (loathed by the left and some middle). Hearing that her negatives are no worse than theirs is hollow comfort. Living with the hatred for them has been awful!
I think we need a president who doesn't come with the built-in divisiveness, skepticism, rancor, and talk-radio fervor of the last 15 years. Though I'd love to see a woman president, I just don't think this is the right woman, unless we're all so fond of our current political culture that we want to be sure it remains, in all its vituperative glory.