Obama going all in to ensure Hillary Clinton succeeds him [No email indictments?]

Hotair ^ | 03/17/2016 | John Sexton

[SeekAndFind]

Hillary Clinton has a problem. She’s not a very good candidate. She doesn’t inspire the kind of wild, stand-in-the-sun-for-hours enthusiasm that President Obama did. There is no one passing out at her rallies. She’s raising less money than her challenger Bernie Sanders. She is winning delegates but few people seem to be swooning over her carefully crafted persona.

Fortunately for Hillary, she has an ally willing to help her make it to the White House. The New York Times reports President Obama, speaking privately to big donors in Houston, Texas, asked them to stop flirting with Bernie Sanders and line up behind Hillary:

Those in attendance described an urgency in Mr. Obama’s tone as he suggested that Democrats needed to come together to prevent an opening for the Republicans, whose leading candidate is Donald J. Trump, to exploit.

[…]

Mr. Obama indicated that he knew some people were not “excited” by Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy, a White House official confirmed.

But, while he stressed that he was not endorsing either candidate, and that both would make good presidents, Mr. Obama went on to lavish praise on Mrs. Clinton, describing her as smart, tough and experienced, and said that she would continue the work of his administration. Mr. Sanders has very publicly criticized Mr. Obama on certain policies and has called for a “political revolution.”

Obama is maintaining a veneer of neutrality but in reality he is urging donors to defund Sanders’ campaign so his doesn’t harm Clinton’s chances. In addition to going after her Democratic rival behind the scenes, Obama is also publicly attacking the GOP front-runner in a way that, the Washington Post reports, makes him, “poised to be the most active sitting president on the campaign trail in decades.”

Obama and his top aides have been strategizing for weeks about how they can reprise his successful 2008 and 2012 approaches to help elect a Democrat to replace him. And out of concern that a Republican president in 2017 — either Trump or Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.) — would weaken or reverse some of his landmark policies, Obama and his surrogates have started making the case that it is essential for the GOP to be defeated in November.

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Obama in recent days has been in the forefront of those taking Trump seriously. More than once, the president has gone on extended riffs about why he thinks Trump as a political leader is bad for the country.

Hillary is not a very good candidate and there is a real question whether she can inspire the Obama coalition to get out and vote. However, if Obama himself is willing to go all out to raise the enthusiasm level for her, then running for Obama’s 3rd term makes more sense. The question is whether this year is fundamentally different than 2008 and 2012. The surprising success of both Trump and Sanders indicates many voters are looking for an outsider rather than four more years of the status quo.

[proxy_user]

If the FBI has sufficient material to indict and convict, and the Obama administration does not indict her, the material is almost certain to be leaked to the press. This will not help her campaign.

[TigersEye]

Hillary dillary doc
the time’s running out on your clock.
You may be a Super Max resident
but you’ll never be America’s president!
Hillary dillary doc.

[MrMarbles]

It will be a good day in the future when we can go a week without seeing or hearing anything Barack Obama.

[MichaelCorleone]

Anybody who thinks Hillary! will pay for her high crimes better think again.

Obviously she holds all the cards.

[Doogle]

......my guess is government type (FBI NSA CIA)” swiftboats
are willing to run this summer if she is not indited....so much work,no result will not sit
well

[Sybeck1]

Now is time for The Donald to come out as the strong law and order guy.

[A CA Guy]

If you jail Hillary her vagina might go on to run on its own since it is her platform.

[angelcindy]

dont count on it bambi

[ought-six]

Just the sound of their voices give me the fantods. But I’m afraid just hearing Clinton’s shrieking monotone of a voice more than, say, once in every millennium, and at that just for a millisecond, is apt to drive me to serious drink. What a truly horrible voice that woman has. No wonder Bubba stepped out to philander.

[laplata]

Anybody who thinks Hillary! will pay for her high crimes better think again.

Obviously she holds all the cards.

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If she becomes POTUS, her oponents had better be scared to death. She will bring the wrath of hell upon them.

[heterosupremacist]

#10 ~ IDK, what are fantods?

[Organic Panic]

Of course it’s Hillary. The illegal vote will make it appear the electoral college made their decision was following “the will of the people.”

[getitright]

Any ideas as to why Obama would give a crap whether Hillary wins or not?

Is she threatening him?

[livius]

Clintons always land on their feet. Obama doesn’t get along well with either of the Clintons, and frankly, he hung Hillary out to dry as SOS - she got no decisions, had to follow Bambi’s orders without even any discussion, was excluded from meetings, etc.

I think she’s detestable and shouldn’t have been SOS to begin with, but he really humiliated her. However, he must now realize that keeping the Dems in the WH would be helped by his support.

Also, I think he’s afraid that this is all going to come back to Benghazi. Neither he nor Hillary could be contacted for many hours during this whole shameful episode, and I’d say there’s perhaps some indication in the emails that he may have been involved in this (she has always shielded him) and also that he was involved in the “video” story. So he has a serious interest in protecting her, even though he hates her.

[nascarnation]

I can guarantee that will NEVER happen in my lifetime.
Baraq will be EVERYWHRE after he leaves the WH.

[ought-six]

Also known as “the willies.” In other words, their voices are creepy.

[getitright]

Could someone please pass the eye bleach? Quickly?!

[TigersEye]

There is some kind of strange symmetry there
since Bernie is such a stiff.

(where did I put that anti-nausea medicine?)

[dirtymac]

If you think for one minute that Hillary does not have ALL of the goods on Obama and the control of the mafia/Democratic party think again. Hillary has always been the muscle of the party and she will flex it as need(think Vince Foster to Anton Scalia and all the bodies in between) she was not out maneuvered by Obama and now he will come to her aid. Taking bets at 50 to 1.