◼ Hammering Obama: Hillary has only begun - John Podhoretz/New York Post
Memo to President Obama: You should have made Hillary your vice president back in 2008.
She was the obvious choice. But you believed you were strong enough without her, and worried that Bill would be impossible to control.
Big mistake.
If Hillary were veep, she’d be inside the tent even now, biting her lip. Instead, she took her leave, wrote her book and is now taking aim — at you.
Hillary Clinton was and is your enemy. She says she’s your friend, but that’s what Iago told Othello.
In 2008, with blithe self-assurance, you took away from her the thing she most wanted — and as you did so, you allowed as how she was “likable enough.”
If she doesn’t still hate you for saying that in front of tens of millions of people on national TV, she’d be a better person than 95 percent of the people on Earth.
And she’s not....
She is betting she has two years to set herself up not as Obama’s natural successor but as his sadder-but-wiser replacement — the one who saw it go wrong, the one who watched as the mistakes were being made, the one who sought to mitigate or reverse those blunders to no effect, the one best able to take inspiration from a more successful, more centrist Democratic presidency....
But she has made her choice. If Obama stumbles, she’ll be there — with her ankle turned out, to trip him up still further and then, with a sad smile, claim credit for having known that the obstacle had been there in his path all along.
Hillary called Obama yesterday to assure him nothing in the interview was meant to be critical of him. Well said, Iago.
