Ages ago, at the 2016 Democratic Convention, in Philadelphia, President Barack Obama made the case for electing Hillary Clinton by setting out her experience. Hillary, he said, was someone who had been ‘in the room,’ on more than one occasion and in more than one capacity. The President continued by pointing out how one can not really be prepared for the job. You think that you can, by reading and by study, but really, one cannot. A barely detectable ruefulness at his own, earlier, naivete is present in his…
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