President Barack Obama is said to have begun quietly backing Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren as a potential successor in what would be a snub to his one-time rival and later Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The president has remained publicly mum about who he would back in the 2016 race for the White House, but reportedly he has expressed concern that Ms Clinton - who has long been the unofficial frontrunner for the Democratic nomination - would undo many of his policies.
Senator Warren, a former Harvard law professor and administration aide, could energize the left wing of the Democrat Party more than the centrist Ms Clinton would, in the same way President Obama did in 2008, Warren also helped set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2011.
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President Barack Obama wraps his arm around Senator Elizabeth Warren in 2012 during a fundraiser before her election. Obama is said to have quietly thrown his support behind Warren in the 2016 race for president
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The president has remained publicly mum about who he would back in the 2016 race for the White House, but reportedly he has expressed concern that Ms Clinton - who has long been the unofficial frontrunner for the Democratic nomination - would undo many of his policies.
Senator Warren, a former Harvard law professor and administration aide, could energize the left wing of the Democrat Party more than the centrist Ms Clinton would, in the same way President Obama did in 2008, Warren also helped set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2011.
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President Barack Obama wraps his arm around Senator Elizabeth Warren in 2012 during a fundraiser before her election. Obama is said to have quietly thrown his support behind Warren in the 2016 race for president
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President Obama has quietly promised Senator Warren his support if she runs and has authorized his chief political adviser, Valerie Jarrett, to convince her to join the race.
Ms Jarrett has held a series of secret meetings with Senator Warren in recent weeks, arguing that she be more likely to carry on President Obama's legacy after he departs the White House.
'Barack, Michelle and Valerie have been talking about Elizabeth Warren for quite some time,' an Obama administration source told Klein. 'Valerie has told Warren that Obama is prepared to throw a great deal of money and organizational support behind her.
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Hillary Clinton speaks at a reception honoring Somanahali Mallaiah Krishna, India's minister of external affairs (not shown), as President Obama looks on in 2010
'The Obamas believe that Warren sees things from the same ideological point of view as they do. She is a committed progressive who, like Obama, wants to transform America into a European-style democratic-socialist state.'
In interviews, however, Senator Warren has emphatically stated that she has no plans to run for president.
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Ms Jarrett has held a series of secret meetings with Senator Warren in recent weeks, arguing that she be more likely to carry on President Obama's legacy after he departs the White House.
'Barack, Michelle and Valerie have been talking about Elizabeth Warren for quite some time,' an Obama administration source told Klein. 'Valerie has told Warren that Obama is prepared to throw a great deal of money and organizational support behind her.
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Hillary Clinton speaks at a reception honoring Somanahali Mallaiah Krishna, India's minister of external affairs (not shown), as President Obama looks on in 2010
'The Obamas believe that Warren sees things from the same ideological point of view as they do. She is a committed progressive who, like Obama, wants to transform America into a European-style democratic-socialist state.'
In interviews, however, Senator Warren has emphatically stated that she has no plans to run for president.
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And a 'well-informed Democratic Party operative' Klein talked to 'pooh-poohed' the suggestion that the president was backing Senator Warren.
'It’s all b******t' he said. 'The media is creating a Hillary Clinton-Elizabeth Warren rivalry to hype the storyline. If Warren dared to challenge Hillary, women all over America would never forgive her. She’d lose all her credibility.'
Senator Warren has become a favorite among progressives because of her outspoken stances against Wall Street and the 'top 1 per cent'.
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President Obama gives Senator Warren a kiss after making a statement at the White House in July 2013
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'It’s all b******t' he said. 'The media is creating a Hillary Clinton-Elizabeth Warren rivalry to hype the storyline. If Warren dared to challenge Hillary, women all over America would never forgive her. She’d lose all her credibility.'
Senator Warren has become a favorite among progressives because of her outspoken stances against Wall Street and the 'top 1 per cent'.
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President Obama gives Senator Warren a kiss after making a statement at the White House in July 2013
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[h=1]The 9 Most Insane Passages From “Blood Feud,” The New Anti-Obama, Anti-Clinton Book[/h] Let’s get rowdy. posted on July 6, 2014, at 10:00 p.m.
Katherine Miller BuzzFeed Staff
Sunday, the New York Post led with a big story: President Obama would support Elizabeth Warren over Hillary Clinton in a 2016 primary.
Except the story is by Edward Klein, the author of the new book, Blood Feud. And Klein doesn’t offer any proof this is actually happening.
There is an anonymous source who says that Warren “like Obama, wants to transform America into a European-style democratic-socialist state.” Another anonymous source dubs Warren Obama’s “Mini-Me.” There are vague reports of White House adviser Valerie Jarrett meeting with Warren.
And then Klein misquotes himself (or whatever you’d call this):
[h=2]Here’s Klein in the Post on Sunday:[/h]
[h=2]Here’s Klein in his own book. This is Bill Clinton talking to Chelsea, rather than “several close friends,” at a party:[/h]
Last week, FoxNews.com ran another piece by Klein, headlined, “Hillary down in the dumps: Is Clinton about to drop out of 2016 race?” The piece ran in the opinion section. It also featured this quotation, attributed to one of the Clintons: “I know the country needs us, but they aren’t acting like they deserve us. Just f**k ‘me.” (One assumes it was supposed to be “fuck ‘em.”)
The slate of Klein pieces is pegged to the release of Blood Feud, which debuted behind Hillary Clinton’s Hard Choices on the New York Times best-seller list this past week.
And let me tell you: Blood Feud is the kind of book you should read with a loved one. Aloud.
After the wild success of his previous effort, the thinly sourced The Amateur, Klein signed a two-book deal with HarperCollins. That deal was later terminated. (Two publishing sources attributed the split to concerns about the quality of Klein’s reporting.)
Blood Feud’s tale is a timeless one: Spurned by Oprah (sure), David Plouffe and Valerie Jarrett tell the president to make a deal with Bill Clinton to win the 2012 election (“Plouffe wanted to win more than he needed to hate”) in exchange for Obama’s support for Hillary 2016, but then — dun dun dunnn — Obama tells Bill Clinton that he’s giving away all the campaign data to OFA and mentions Benghazi in passing, so now it’s all ruined, and Bill Clinton is frail and dying. Seems rock solid!
Almost every chapter has something truly insane in it: At one point, Klein accuses Michelle Obama and Jarrett of believing that “the Clintons, like most white people, were racists.” Another chapter cites as gospel Sy Hersh’s report in the London Review of Books late last year that the Obama administration withheld information about Syrian rebels’ ability to make sarin gas. (Hersh’s report was originally intended to run in the Washington Post, but did not.)
These more troubling issues aside: Because the book is largely a simple retelling of known information about the 2012 election and the Benghazi attack, Klein instead promises the sordid, inside details of arguments between the Obamas, Clintons, and Jarrett. What he delivers reads like stilted fan fiction, featuring dialogue that no human has likely said or will probably ever say until you read it aloud to friends and family.
Look, let’s cut right to the chase here: Blood Feud is the funniest book of 2014. Maybe ever. On nearly every page, you’ll feel like yelling “BLOOD FEUD!” over a guitar solo (think “Panama” by Van Halen) while an eagle flies out of an explosion.
Earn this. Savor this. Believe very little of this.
[h=2]9. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had a “physical” altercation:[/h]
Hillary Clinton gets into all kinds of fights with people in Blood Feud (BLOOD FEUD!). One time she broke a lamp! In the 1990s!
[h=2]8. Hillary Clinton has always been a loose cannon, so her friends weren’t surprised by “What difference, at this point, does it make?”[/h]
To illustrate this point, Klein goes back 60 years. (The story about punching a girl is true, though it’s unclear how it directly applies to Benghazi.)
[h=2]7. David Plouffe and Valerie Jarrett argued about Oprah, Klein tells us in the opening pages:[/h]
This is why Obama made the deal with Clinton, deepening the blood feud (BLOOD FEUD!) between them. But this is not the only discord caused by Oprah: “The Clintons’ spies tell them Joe Biden has also been sending Oprah notes,” a source tells Klein later.
[h=2]Also, according to Klein, this is how Oprah talks:[/h]
[h=2]6. Also, Valerie Jarrett is the “third member” in the Obamas’ marriage.[/h]
Jarrett may as well be Iago (“Othello,” not the parrot) in Blood Feud. She has her “tentacles” in the “remotest corners of the federal government” and — a few pages later — “every nook and cranny of the executive branch of government.” She has a permanent bedroom at the White House! She whispers in Obama’s ear! She taunts him (weirdly) about what Bill Clinton might say at the convention! She lectures him about the Syrian red line! She tells the Obama girls they can have ice cream!
[h=2]5. Here’s how Hillary Clinton sums up the “story of the Obama presidency”:[/h]
Just to clarify, that’s Hillary Clinton talking at a luncheon with fellow 1969 Wellesley College graduates, not some bro three deep at a dive bar in the Florida Keys.
Blood Feud opens with this lunch, where the mood was “festive” and the ladies were “in their best jewelry and handbags.” The magic is really in the considered pause and sip of wine — chardonnay, one assumes, but maybe a pinot! — between “No hand on the fucking tiller” and “And you can’t trust the motherfucker.”
[h=2]4. And wouldn’t you know it, one of those Wellesley grads asked Hillary about Benghazi.[/h]
Which of the following seems least like something Hillary Clinton would say:
a. “I wish I hadn’t flailed around at that Senate committee hearing and said, ‘What difference does it make?’”
b. “All that shit of throwing things at him and yelling is in the distant past.”
c. “Face down, booty up, timber.”
[h=2]3. Benghazi is very prominent in Blood Feud. This is, according to Klein, how Bill and Hillary Clinton argued about whether she should appear on the Sunday shows after the attack:[/h]
Like Shakespeare, this passage must be read aloud to really appreciate the inherent beauty in the language. “‘It’s a fucking trap,’ he said. ‘I know it’s a fucking trap,’ she said.”
[h=2]2. Later, Klein tells us, the Clintons did… whatever this is while watching Susan Rice on the Sunday shows.[/h]
Klein’s version of events is that Hillary Clinton knew all along the Benghazi attack was an orchestrated terrorist attack, but she committed to selling Barack Obama’s version of events (the video), in part because she is so comfortable lying.
[h=2]1. “Dowdy and old doesn’t win the White House these days.”[/h]
And that’s exactly what Bill did.
Katherine Miller BuzzFeed Staff
Sunday, the New York Post led with a big story: President Obama would support Elizabeth Warren over Hillary Clinton in a 2016 primary.
Except the story is by Edward Klein, the author of the new book, Blood Feud. And Klein doesn’t offer any proof this is actually happening.
There is an anonymous source who says that Warren “like Obama, wants to transform America into a European-style democratic-socialist state.” Another anonymous source dubs Warren Obama’s “Mini-Me.” There are vague reports of White House adviser Valerie Jarrett meeting with Warren.
And then Klein misquotes himself (or whatever you’d call this):
[h=2]Here’s Klein in the Post on Sunday:[/h]
[h=2]Here’s Klein in his own book. This is Bill Clinton talking to Chelsea, rather than “several close friends,” at a party:[/h]
Last week, FoxNews.com ran another piece by Klein, headlined, “Hillary down in the dumps: Is Clinton about to drop out of 2016 race?” The piece ran in the opinion section. It also featured this quotation, attributed to one of the Clintons: “I know the country needs us, but they aren’t acting like they deserve us. Just f**k ‘me.” (One assumes it was supposed to be “fuck ‘em.”)
The slate of Klein pieces is pegged to the release of Blood Feud, which debuted behind Hillary Clinton’s Hard Choices on the New York Times best-seller list this past week.
And let me tell you: Blood Feud is the kind of book you should read with a loved one. Aloud.
After the wild success of his previous effort, the thinly sourced The Amateur, Klein signed a two-book deal with HarperCollins. That deal was later terminated. (Two publishing sources attributed the split to concerns about the quality of Klein’s reporting.)
Blood Feud’s tale is a timeless one: Spurned by Oprah (sure), David Plouffe and Valerie Jarrett tell the president to make a deal with Bill Clinton to win the 2012 election (“Plouffe wanted to win more than he needed to hate”) in exchange for Obama’s support for Hillary 2016, but then — dun dun dunnn — Obama tells Bill Clinton that he’s giving away all the campaign data to OFA and mentions Benghazi in passing, so now it’s all ruined, and Bill Clinton is frail and dying. Seems rock solid!
Almost every chapter has something truly insane in it: At one point, Klein accuses Michelle Obama and Jarrett of believing that “the Clintons, like most white people, were racists.” Another chapter cites as gospel Sy Hersh’s report in the London Review of Books late last year that the Obama administration withheld information about Syrian rebels’ ability to make sarin gas. (Hersh’s report was originally intended to run in the Washington Post, but did not.)
These more troubling issues aside: Because the book is largely a simple retelling of known information about the 2012 election and the Benghazi attack, Klein instead promises the sordid, inside details of arguments between the Obamas, Clintons, and Jarrett. What he delivers reads like stilted fan fiction, featuring dialogue that no human has likely said or will probably ever say until you read it aloud to friends and family.
Look, let’s cut right to the chase here: Blood Feud is the funniest book of 2014. Maybe ever. On nearly every page, you’ll feel like yelling “BLOOD FEUD!” over a guitar solo (think “Panama” by Van Halen) while an eagle flies out of an explosion.
Earn this. Savor this. Believe very little of this.
[h=2]9. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had a “physical” altercation:[/h]
Hillary Clinton gets into all kinds of fights with people in Blood Feud (BLOOD FEUD!). One time she broke a lamp! In the 1990s!
[h=2]8. Hillary Clinton has always been a loose cannon, so her friends weren’t surprised by “What difference, at this point, does it make?”[/h]
To illustrate this point, Klein goes back 60 years. (The story about punching a girl is true, though it’s unclear how it directly applies to Benghazi.)
[h=2]7. David Plouffe and Valerie Jarrett argued about Oprah, Klein tells us in the opening pages:[/h]
This is why Obama made the deal with Clinton, deepening the blood feud (BLOOD FEUD!) between them. But this is not the only discord caused by Oprah: “The Clintons’ spies tell them Joe Biden has also been sending Oprah notes,” a source tells Klein later.
[h=2]Also, according to Klein, this is how Oprah talks:[/h]
[h=2]6. Also, Valerie Jarrett is the “third member” in the Obamas’ marriage.[/h]
Jarrett may as well be Iago (“Othello,” not the parrot) in Blood Feud. She has her “tentacles” in the “remotest corners of the federal government” and — a few pages later — “every nook and cranny of the executive branch of government.” She has a permanent bedroom at the White House! She whispers in Obama’s ear! She taunts him (weirdly) about what Bill Clinton might say at the convention! She lectures him about the Syrian red line! She tells the Obama girls they can have ice cream!
[h=2]5. Here’s how Hillary Clinton sums up the “story of the Obama presidency”:[/h]
Just to clarify, that’s Hillary Clinton talking at a luncheon with fellow 1969 Wellesley College graduates, not some bro three deep at a dive bar in the Florida Keys.
Blood Feud opens with this lunch, where the mood was “festive” and the ladies were “in their best jewelry and handbags.” The magic is really in the considered pause and sip of wine — chardonnay, one assumes, but maybe a pinot! — between “No hand on the fucking tiller” and “And you can’t trust the motherfucker.”
[h=2]4. And wouldn’t you know it, one of those Wellesley grads asked Hillary about Benghazi.[/h]
Which of the following seems least like something Hillary Clinton would say:
a. “I wish I hadn’t flailed around at that Senate committee hearing and said, ‘What difference does it make?’”
b. “All that shit of throwing things at him and yelling is in the distant past.”
c. “Face down, booty up, timber.”
[h=2]3. Benghazi is very prominent in Blood Feud. This is, according to Klein, how Bill and Hillary Clinton argued about whether she should appear on the Sunday shows after the attack:[/h]
Like Shakespeare, this passage must be read aloud to really appreciate the inherent beauty in the language. “‘It’s a fucking trap,’ he said. ‘I know it’s a fucking trap,’ she said.”
[h=2]2. Later, Klein tells us, the Clintons did… whatever this is while watching Susan Rice on the Sunday shows.[/h]
Klein’s version of events is that Hillary Clinton knew all along the Benghazi attack was an orchestrated terrorist attack, but she committed to selling Barack Obama’s version of events (the video), in part because she is so comfortable lying.
[h=2]1. “Dowdy and old doesn’t win the White House these days.”[/h]
And that’s exactly what Bill did.
I simply do not see Hillary getting there, too many obstacles, too few accomplishments, and just enough baggage to prevent her once again. The fact that Obama will not support her is meaningless. His endorsement is totally worthless. As far as Warren goes, if that is the best the dem's can do the door is wide open for republicans. Too hard in this day and age to maintain power at that level for more than 8 years. In 8 years the momentum wears off and the truth comes out just as it is now all catching up with Obama. The democratic party is probably in more dissaray right now than the republican party because they are in a defensive mode right now, especially those who have backed Obama's agenda all this time. Deep down inside I think Bill does not want to get that involved again at that level and Hillary's demise could reflect negatively on him if she was a lousy President which is just as likely as not. Anyone who does not by now realize that this country would be in much better shape had Romney won the election is simply an agenda junky. I want what is best for this country and all I see is disintegration. This country is better than that, or at least it used to be.
