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MTZehvor on 06 July 2016
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pokoko said:
MTZehvor said:

The magnitude of the mistake is the reason why. People shouldn't lose votes simply for any silly mistake, but if you screw up badly enough, then it becomes very reasonable to doubt that person's ability to be responsible with far more at stake. Clinton was irresponsible in following basic security protocals and put US National Security at risk. If she's been shown to be careless with important in the positions she's held (and careless enough to the point where the FBI director basically said she would have been fired if not for her prestige), then there's reason to suspect that she will be careless as president.

I don't know how true that is, exactly.  Not only can I see Trump doing the same thing (he doesn't even know what he said two days prior) but I can see many of the politicians in Washington doing the same thing.  Old people and technology don't mix all that well.  

I don't care much for her, and I certainly don't think this is a good thing, but damn if I don't want more oversight for all these technologically challenged individuals who run the world.  Why didn't someone say, "hey, stop doing that," during the time she was in office?  That doesn't make any sense.

The truth is, though, stuff like this wouldn't happen to someone as President.  There is too much security, too many people who actually know what they're doing who are the ones handling things.  That's why we had a President who was basically senile and nothing much came of it.  

Just to be clear, I'm not voting for either of them.  Also, she wouldn't have been fired if she were still in office.  This has happened before, actually, with a US Ambassador.  They faced sanctions but were allowed to resign instead.  At the level of office she held, that's the very worse she would have faced but I doubt it would have gone that far.  

As for the why no one told her to stop, probably because no one knew. I would imagine the FBI didn't routinely make a habit of checking in on the secretary of state's inbox.

And as for president, perhaps there wouldn't be an email-esque mistake, but there could quite easily be mistakes of greater caliber, especially when no one is bothering to check the president's actions and make sure they're grounded in reality. I'm assuming George W. Bush is the senile president you're referring to, and if that's the case, a whole lot came from his tenure. ISIS's origins can be traced back to the fame/notoriety Bush and Colin Powell gave to Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi during the invasion of Iraq, which allowed Zarqawi's group, AQI, to expand rapidly and split off from Al-Qaeda. Eventually it would become ISIS during the beginning of the Syrian Civil War.

Even if the president you're referring to isn't Bush, I think the example goes a long way towards showing that a president can still do quite a bit of damage even with others supposedly checking their actions for mistakes. The question is do people make serious mistakes in their work. If the answer is yes, then I'm at the very least skeptical about their ability to stop making mistakes later on.