Things are looking good for Hillary in Iowa. Let me move this over from the Jeb! thread:
And a Loras (no, not Lorax, but it ought to be!) College poll has Hillary up in Iowa, 62-24.
It is like I foretold adaher, the Biden supporters were more likely to go to Clinton and I have to blame the media for doing the sandbagging.
Whereas a candidate might run, you guys in the media should not add a candidate to the polling until he or she is officially running.
OK, where did “palace guard” come from? Tea Party Command Center Blogger Spot had this on 9/20/15:
And it goes on. I doubt this is the earliest reference–Google indicates the phrase is all over the Right Wing Echo Chamber. Rather confusing to one with knowledge of Roman History–the Pretorian Guard could be quite pro-active against the Emperor.
In other news, Ms Clinton appeared on Stephen Colbert’s show last night. (He’s had several presidential candidates already.) I missed the first couple of minutes but she seemed to do quite well.
Perhaps one of the Benhazi critics can answer a simple question. What is the actual charge, in straightforward ordinary words, against Hillary? What was her mischievous or selfish intent?
I’d wanted to ask this question, but couldn’t bare admit that I’d spent only the tiniest fraction of the hundreds of hours junkies commit to the intricacies of Benghazi-gate. But just now I see that Rolling Stone has addressed the matter.
[QUOTE=Matt Taibbbi]
…The overriding implication of the Benghazi hearing seemed to be that Hillary Clinton was so crass, unfeeling and politically self-involved as to not care if members of her State Department were massacred. Again, Hillary has a lot of flaws, but we’re supposed to believe that she doesn’t have a problem with dead Americans? Seriously?
This is the same kind of abject stupidity we saw in the 9/11 Truth movement, which believed unquestioningly that a whole bund of Bush administration officials was willing to see Americans murdered en masse in order to further some convoluted world domination scheme.
Gowdy went to places like this over and over again Thursday. At one point, he was giving Hillary a hard time for responding too quickly to an email from Huma Abedin pointing out that the Libyan people “needed medicine, gasoline, diesel and milk.”
“Do you know how long it took you to answer that email?” Gowdy ranted.
“Well, I responded very quickly,” Hillary replied.
“Yeah, four minutes,” Gowdy chirped. “My question, and I think it’s a fair one, is the Libyan people had their needs responded to in four minutes. And there’s no record of our security folks ever making it to your inbox.”
The look on Gowdy’s face at this moment was priceless. He was proud, like a 3-year-old who went potty all by himself. But what was he even talking about? That Hillary Clinton cares more about the lives of Libyan strangers than she does her own employees? Was that seriously the idea?
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So, D’Anconia and others: Does Mr. Taibbi have it wrong?
Hillary for President: “Not Insane!” 
Thought I’d bump this to see if, by chance, D’Anconia had figured out how to understand the timeline.
It’s not nice to play with your food.
Hillary should have been elected in '08, and the DNC should have saved the bozo we ended up with for '16.
What do you think would have happened differently in the last 6 1/2 years?
The public would have been eager for Obama because they wanted change and an end to politics as usual, rather than disillusioned because he was actually no different from the rest.
Are you kidding? Obama’s been a breath of fresh air after Bush.
How was he ‘no different from the rest’? He couldn’t have done more than he did to try to govern in a bipartisan manner, other than abandon Democratic policy goals altogether and join the Republican Party.
It takes two to tango. If you try to reach across the aisle to work together with the other party, and the other party tells you to fuck off, then that doesn’t mean you were “no different from the rest.” It means Obama attempted to prove that drawing the Republicans into working cooperatively was politically possible, but wound up definitively disproving that theory for the foreseeable future.
So from the Dem perspective, the only workable approach left on the table is that of disempowering the GOP. For that, we need a skilled fighter who will take them on, and make them look small and silly in the process of doing so, so that voters will find them equal parts dangerous and ridiculous, and vote against them on those grounds.
In Hillary, we’ve got the right candidate for that. But it was Republican intransigence that necessitated that we Democrats go this route.
The problem with the BUsh administration wasn’t that it wasn’t bipartisan enough. When voters wanted change, they wanted an end to the stale old politics, as Obama put it. They didn’t get that, so now they are searching for another candidate who might actually bring about change.
Besides, fighting is futile for Democrats. They don’t have the power anymore and holding the White House won’t change that. Republicans have the bulk of the power where laws actually get passed, as in federal and state legislatures.
The Obama administration has failed miserably in his pledge to improve transparency. Instead we get government dragging their feet on FOIA requests and waiting for a judge’s order before reluctantly releasing information. That is actually worse than the Bush administration.
Just business as usual in Washington.
Not to mention the lying, the lack of accountability, the spin, the used car salesman act. I understand why the Clintons don’t like him. Everything they said about him in 2008 was 100% true.
Latest numbers from Predictwise:
White House
57% Hillary
16% Rubio
7% Sanders
7% Trump
4% Bush
3% Cruz
2% Christie
2% Carson
1% Fiorina
1% Kasich
(With only a few exceptions, November predictions depend little on nominees! Multiply above by 2.75 to estimate chance player wins nomination if GOP, by 1.55 if Democrat. Exceptions: Carson’s nomination chance (9%) is much more than 2.75*2%; Huckabee’s nomination chance is much more than Kasich’s.
I wonder if you recognize how much your personal views of Obama might cloud your view of his politics and achievement. This is just throwing right-wing-fantasy darts at the dartboard.
“There are none so blind as those who will not see.”
-John Heywood, 1546
The only thing worse than the Bush administration was the Nixon administration, except possibly the Reagan administration.