Yep, she would have been much better than the Kenyan Usurper, and frankly probably even better than McLame.
This is a case where "better" would have been worse.
As things stand now, Obama stands to lose at least one house of Congress next year, as his accidentally-on-purpose overscrewing of the economy begins to precipitate buyer's remorse in the middlish voters who were persuaded by McLame's lameness to vote for Hopey-Changey-Falsefront Guy.
Add in a little bit of New Black Panther Party voter intimidation against ethnic white voters in the cities, a little bit of ACORN rape-the-Census scandalization, and you've got the makings of a Hillary/Slick insurgency in 2012 and a vast GOP stampede -- even a convention stampede, if the East Coast Clerisy tries to ram a RiNO down our throats again -- and an Electoral College landslide for Guess Who from Wasilla.
LOve her or hate her—Hillary is an American.