President Obama’s Quiet Case for Hillary Clinton in 2016

[OKNancy]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obamas-quiet-case-hillary-clinton-2016/story?id=30234096

In her final days as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton said goodbye to President Obama over a lunch of fish tacos in the dining room off the Oval Office. As a parting gift, she gave her former rival 20 pages of recommendations for what to do in his second term.
"Tearing up, I hugged the president and told him again how much our work and friendship meant to me,” Clinton writes of Obama in the new epilogue of her book “Hard Choices.” “And that I'd be on call if he ever needed me.”

As the 2016 presidential campaign kicks into gear, Obama needs Clinton more than ever before – a message he’s made increasingly clear over the past two years, without having to pick up the phone.
Obama has heaped more effusive praise on his former secretary of state than just about any other high-profile Democrat, including his own vice president, Joe Biden, who has also aspired to the nation’s top office.

Obama has declared Clinton “a world figure” and an “extraordinary talent.” He said in a joint interview with “60 Minutes” that she was “one of the most important advisers” he’s had, and a “strong friend.”
“If she’s her wonderful self, I’m sure she is going to do great” in the campaign, Obama said in an interview this week.


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[Thinkingabout]

1. It is two hard working people who has great admiration for each other.

[AC_Mem]

2. I was going to vote for Hillary in 2008

But I had this very strong feeling about this candidate, Barack Obama. The more I saw him and heard him, the more interested I was in him. I began to hear in my mind, "President BarackObama". It sounded a little funny at first, but it felt right. I went to lunch one day with my dear friends. We were an interesting bunch, white, black, republican, democrat, evangelical, new age (it brings back such fond memories...). The one thing we had in common was that we were all very smart, so the conversations were always invigorating.

One day I said "I am getting interested in Barack Obama. Something is telling me that he is going to be our next president." My friends all kind of stared at me and my one friend said (and he African American and rose up in his life from extreme poverty in a Mississippi shack with 11 brothers and sisters to one of the smartest and most personally successful people I have had the pleasure of calling friend) "there will never be an African American president in my lifetime". I told him that I just felt that soon we would be calling him President Obama and that we needed to go to his website and read about what he stood for. I got allot of laughs that day... And I don't know if any one went to the site. I did though. I went to Hillary's site and read her opinions on the issues and then went to his, and I just knew at that point that not only was he going to be president, but that he was going to need much support.

That is when I joined OFA. Every time the republicans would say something stupid or so ignorant and vicious that it would piss me off, I would go to OFA and donate $5.00. It was interesting to see how upset the GOP Made me by looking at my bank statement at the end of each month! LOL!

I feel that now is Hillary's time. She needed to lose that election so that 1) President Obama could fulfill his difficult destiny (or the beginning of it as I feel he has much more that he will accomplish in this lifetime) and 2) she could get her international chops from being Secretary of State.

Do I wish she were more liberal? Yes of course I do. Do I think she will be fought every step of the way by the brain damaged GOP and their owners? Yes. But she has Bill and she has our President, who will not have the chains of the presidency on him any longer, and they may become a very powerful trio. She will win and the title of President Hillary Clinton is something we should begin getting used to!

Shine on and be part of history! Volunteer and be the change that we so believe in!

Annette in Orlando

[Stellar]

3. He made a similar case about Rahm Emanuel here in Chicago...

and it really p*ssed me off. He should have stayed out of this election like he told BB that he would do with him. So, Hillary will probably win if that makes any sense.