And therein lies the fundamental problem with Hillary Clinton: It isn't that Penn led her down the road to defeat, but that she allowed herself to be dragged down that road. She relied on someone else to make core decisions, and in doing so subverted her own opinions and intuitions. This is what so many of us find so egregious about George Bush- his inability to use his own reason and common sense (if he in fact has any) to make decisions. He listened to everyone around him, used no judgment of his own, and was thus lead into disastrous decision after disastrous decision. None of us want that same attribute in the next President. Sure she was loyal to Penn, but that loyalty was blinding. If she listens that intently to others without employing her own sense of judgment, who would she listen to if in the White House? We need someone courageous enough to make their own decisions, and, as Penn has showed, Hillary clearly isn't that that person.