The controversy over Hillary Rodham Clinton’s use of a private email account while secretary of state has accelerated an inevitability about her presidential candidacy – a spotlight on whether Americans trust her. … The intense partisanship that has divided opinions about Clinton through most of her public career has focused […] Read more »
Absence of 2016 competition for Clinton raises stakes for Democrats
… As Bill Clinton always says, campaigns are about the future and not the past. If that doesn’t worry Democrats right now, it should. One of Hillary Clinton’s biggest challenges, assuming she runs, will be to make herself a candidate of the future. This week, she’s trapped in a rerun […] Read more »
Clinton’s message to voters is, ‘Trust me.’ Will they listen?
Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to quash the controversy over her use of a personal e-mail account as secretary of state with a strategy that can be reduced to two words: “Trust me.” It is one of the biggest issues that will confront many Americans if and when she asks them […] Read more »
Democrats See The Media As Biased Against Clinton
We’re now into Week 2 of the Hillary Clinton email saga, but if Martin O’Malley and his aides are huddled in Maryland somewhere hoping this hurts Clinton in 2016, all I can say is, “Don’t hold your breath.” … While some might scoff at the “Clinton Media Persecution Complex,” Democratic […] Read more »
Elizabeth Warren Is No Barack Obama
Hillary Clinton has already emerged as the “inevitable” Democratic nominee, a title she aspired to, but could never claim, eight years ago. The closest rival she has this time is Elizabeth Warren — who is no Barack Obama. … The enthusiasm for Ms. Warren’s candidacy on the left is real, […] Read more »
It’s Not About the Emails: Clinton’s Fate Hangs on Bigger Questions
If I knew with certainty that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was not going to be the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, I still wouldn’t think this kerfuffle over her State Department emails was responsible. This is the classic kind of inside-the-Beltway, process story that politicos and reporters get in […] Read more »