THE ASSAULT ON HILLARY – AT 9:21 A.M. ET:  You can just feel it.  Many Democrats are uneasy about Hillary Clinton, and whether she can actually win the general election.  They are also uneasy about the FBI investigation into Clinton, which can demolish her campaign.  The chief uneaser seems to be Vice President Joe Biden.  From NRO:

Vice President Joe Biden just took Hillary Clinton out at the knees.

“Bernie [Sanders] is speaking to a yearning that is deep and real,” Biden told CNN’s Gloria Borger. “And that is the absolute enormous concentration of wealth in a small group of people, with the middle class, now being shown, being left out.”

When Borger pointed out that, “Hillary’s been talking about that as well,” Biden was undeterred.

“It’s relatively new for Hillary to talk about that,” he said. “Hillary’s focus has been on other things up to now, and that’s been Bernie’s — nobody questions Bernie’s authenticity on those issues. . . . I think they question everybody’s who hasn’t been talking about it all along, but I think she’s come forward with some really thoughtful approaches to deal with the issue.”

You don’t say this sort of thing if you’re enthusiastic about Clinton being the Democratic nominee in 2016. Either the vice president wants to ensure that Sanders gets a fair shot at the nomination, or he’s itching to reverse his own decision not to run in 2016. (He has recently hinted at the latter possibility.)

COMMENT:  Obama clearly does not want Hillary to succeed him.  And Bernie is seen as an interesting curiosity, a decent man who can't win, but who's shown how vulnerable Hillary is.

Biden is the man to watch, especially if the FBI probe shows that Hillary's behavior is more serious than a parking ticket.

January 14,  2016