(07-22-2015 07:20 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  Obama could have his picture taken with Wright at all his pit stops and nothing would change. The people didn't care a whiff who he hung with or what his real agenda was. Obama even fooled the Europeans. It was all a PC exercise.

I think that was clearly true once he got the momentum rolling. But there was a time early on where I think some of the disclosures would have been devastating. But republicans either had not yet done their homework, or they knew of those things but simply didn't want to do anything that might benefit Hillary.

I've said it before, will repeat it now, I think the republicans' visceral hatred for all things Clinton has been the most harmful development in the last 25 years of American politics. It kept Bill and Newt from reprising the Ike/LBJ/Mr. Sam era of the 1950s, and we are far worse off today as a result of that. It gave us Obama in 2008. It may yet give us Bernie in 2016. And if that happens, you can add a zero on the back of that 25 in the first sentence of this paragraph.

Republicans can work with pragmatic democrats like the Clintons. Nobody can work with ideologues like Obama and Sanders (and, for that matter, GWB).