While Professor Jacobson is upset Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is not making a presidential run, many others are eagerly anticipating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to readily get the nomination and win.

Yale University student Harry Graver uses a smart literary analogy to convey some skepticism that Clinton will be the next POTUS.

Yale is “Waiting for Godot.” Much like Vladimir and Estragon — the protagonists of Samuel Beckett’s 1953 play — we find ourselves waiting for a panacean figure. However, while Beckett brilliantly conceals Godot from his audience, maintaining him as a character equally mysterious and supposedly palliative, our adaptation takes on a politically vivid form: Hillary Rodham Clinton.

You don’t need to look far to find evidence of the former secretary of state’s colossal stature on campus. From a “Ready for Hillary” chapter formed three years from Election Day to an elaborate award ceremony at the Law School, Clinton has taken on a larger-than-life aura.

Similar to the interpretive ambiguity of Beckett’s Godot, the former first lady has imbued many forms. For members of the faculty, she is the one who got away — the retrospectively right choice over the flash and euphoria of a 2008 Barack Obama, since mollified by hindsight and experience. For many undergraduates, she is a rekindled hope — a second chance to participate in an historic election to shape our youth, absent the disappointments and inept blunders of our first attempt.

This particular stripe of adoration has innate problems, regardless of the respective candidate.
….Where was Senator Clinton’s signature piece of legislation? While Marco Rubio may have ruined his presidential prospects with an attempted immigration bill, and Paul Ryan may do the same with an upcoming budget, the junior senator from New York never hazarded her political future to attempt a serious legislative achievement (outside, perhaps, an Iraq War vote that two years of mea culpas tried to absolve). Also, why do we take for granted the success of her term as secretary of state? For skeptical observers, the cupboard seems bare: there was no triumphant doctrine, no groundbreaking treaty, and stasis, if not regression, when it came to a surge in worldly opinion, a “reset” with Russia, a new regime in Syria, the curbing of Chinese aggression in the Pacific or the prevention of nuclear proliferation in Iran.

From a different lens, as people look to this incredibly early groundswell of support, it is difficult to escape the feeling that supporters prize the symbolic person over the agenda….

None of this is to say, placing politics aside, that there aren’t admirable qualities to Hillary Clinton. Rather, they are just profoundly muted in the unceasing applause of her coronation.