You got that right.
If I may stick my nose in....
HRC would have been a less damaging president in 2008 - note that I said "less damaging", not "good choice" - because she didn't have the either the political chutzpah, or the hatred for America to push through the reforms that BO achieved.
However, she was most certainly politically savvy enough, along with a complicit media, to cement in place all of the political "gains" that were obtained by BO.
"The Most Important Election of our Time" is a trite cliché. However, 2016 truly may have been. I'm not sure that America could have recovered - heck, I'm still not sure. But I do know that with Trump leading the charge, at least we have a chance.