One usually associates The Economist with a mostly center-right view of politics and government. It was surprising, then, that the recent issue had so many positive (though not exclusively so) things to say about Hilary Clinton's candidacy, as well as a pretty harsh view of the current administration:
Mrs Clinton now exudes an overwhelming air of competence. Mr Bush is widely regarded as one of the most incompetent presidents in American history—a man who rushed blind into Baghdad, who filled his administration with lacklustre cronies, who bungled the handling of Hurricane Katrina and who famously claimed that he could not think of a single mistake he had made. Mrs Clinton is the anti-Bush: a woman who speaks in clear sentences, who has a formidable command of the facts, and who, on health care, is willing to learn from her mistakes.
