And for a change of pace, let’s take a gander at the national political gossip…
At the top of the list has to be the report (albeit in the New York Post), that the President isn’t very keen on a Hillary Clinton presidential bid in 2016, and so is working the back channels to convince Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to make a run:
Publicly, Obama has remained noncommittal on the 2016 race, but privately he worries that Clinton would undo and undermine many of his policies. There’s also a personal animosity, especially with Bill Clinton, that dates from their tough race six years ago.
Oh, it’s more than animosity. According to a “tell-all book” by Edward Klein, the Clinton/Obama split borders on hatred.
Consider this anecdote, attributed to a possibly tipsy Mrs. Clinton at a dinner gathering of her college friends last year in New York:
“The IRS targeting the Tea Party, the Justice Department’s seizure of AP phone records and James Rosen’s emails — all these scandals. Obama’s allowed his hatred for his enemies to screw him the way Nixon did,”‘ Clinton reportedly told her pals.
‘She went on to explain that Bill was a natural leader and great executive, unlike Obama, who was in her words “incompetent and feckless,”‘ Klein writes.
At another point in the conversation Hillary is quoted as having said of Obama, ‘You can’t trust the motherf***er.
Saucy. But Bill gets in on the Obama-bashing, too:
‘I really can’t stand the way Obama always seems to be hectoring when he talks to me.
‘Sometimes we just stare at each other. It’s pretty damn awkward. Now we both have favors to ask each other, and it’s going to be very unpleasant. But I’ve got to get this guy to owe me and to be on our side.’
It’s juicy, it’s racy, and it should all be taken with a large grain of salt.
But if even half of what Klein write is true, then the 2016 Democratic nomination may turn out to be a slag-fest.
