Relax – or, Why I Will Not Be Voting For Hillary Clinton

Back in 2011, as Republicans hard-balled Obama by refusing to raise the debt-ceiling and the president moved ever-closer to capitulating to their demands, it occurred to me, “You know who’d put up a better fight than this? Hillary Clinton.”

This, in fact, had been a central premise of her 2008 campaign: Obama was a naive optimist who didn’t understand th…