- Tonight is the first of three debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, beginning at 6pm PDT.
“The Vision Thing” was George H. W. Bush’s lament about which he was having trouble articulating when he was running for President the first time.
George H. W, Bush had trouble with The Vision Thing. Photo via Google images.
Bush, well qualified from his decades of public service, and at the time two-term vice president to Ronald Reagan, went on to win election in 1988. But the “vision thing” dogged him throughout his first term. He couldn’t create a “vision” to synopsize his goals for the American people.
He lost reelection to Bill Clinton in 1992, an election in which a third party candidate—Ross Perot—hurt his reelection chances.
It’s a lesson Hillary Clinton should take to heart.
Like it or not, Donald Trump has no trouble articulating a vision, regardless of how repugnant some find it and how mangled his syntax.
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