Well, if you can believe some of the chatter, the Clintons would like Obama to lose this year, so that Hillary would be running against an incumbent Republican in Romney in 2016.
The reasoning is that, if Obama is re-elected, more and more voters will be turned off by Democrats, and that the country will trend Republican in 2016. And, Hillary or any Democrat would be running in 2016 having to defend eight years of Obama.
Hillary Clinton will be 68 years old in 2016 after she was a heavy favorite in 2008 and lost the nomination to an unknown and inexperienced challenger. Always expect the Clintons to play EVERY possible angle:
"My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right?" Clinton said. "We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California." -HRC May 22, 2008
But her time is past. I welcome the stark contrast of this thoroughly unlikeable old woman against Mitt Romney, who will presumably have a positive economic record to point to. That being said, Israel WILL attack Iran at some point in the next four years. Russia WILL side with Iran. Look for the press to criticize every response Romeny makes to this escalation, teeing it up for Hillary to reintroduce herself as a foreign policy superstar. You better believe she made sure she was front and center for that famous WH Situation Room photo the night the Navy Seals used George Bush's intelligence to kill Osama bin Laden.
Not just for 2016, but Clinton wants control of the D party back, and he’ll get it. He left every delegate wishing Bill Clinton was their nominee, not the inept Obama and national joke Biden.
I agree. Zipper-Boy Clinton gave his Convention Speech in a bid to take over the Democrat Party, ASAP!
If they cant beat Obama this year, why do you think they stand a chance against Hillary in 2016?
If Republicans dont win this year, then Hillary will be close to be undefeatable in 2016, she has far more support than Obama does and she will peel off a sizeable number of white voters.