DEVASTATING – AT 9:07 A.M. ET:  There's a theory floating around that much of the negative information on Hillary Clinton is coming from the White House.  I believe that theory has great credibility.

Yes, Obama would want Hillary to win a presidential election against any Republican because she'd defend the programs put in place during Obama's years in office.  But, in his heart, Obama would probably prefer another Democrat, someone like Elizabeth Warren, to be the Democratic nominee.  There's bad blood between the Clintons and Obamas, and Obama could legitimately fear that Hillary, with all her faults, would outshine him. 

Now come statements from the Obama White House that are devastating to Hillary.  From The Politico: 

With so much on the line, with so much time to prepare, she’s back to classic Clinton? She’s flubbing a campaign kickoff eight years in the making because she somehow thought that no one would ever care that she set up a secret email server? That anyone would then accept her word that it was OK that she deleted 30,000 emails even though the State Department had been asking for some of them? And then go silent again?

After all, 2008’s “Change you can believe in” campaign slogan wasn’t just a reference to George W. Bush. It was also about her, and the uneasy feeling many people had that with Clinton, something else was always going on.

Obama aides had had that feeling themselves, even after she joined the administration and their staffs tried following Obama’s and Clinton’s leads in building mutual trust, almost to the point of suspension of disbelief.

“You never feel like you’re quite getting the full story, because everyone’s got some side deal or some complicating factor,” said one former Obama aide, reflecting on dealing with Clinton and her circle. “I don’t think there was a conscious effort to watch out for scams. It was more just, you know who you’re dealing with.”

COMMENT:  What an endorsement of the woman who would be president.  This could eventually take its toll.  It's clear many Democrats are exasperated over the "same old, same old" when Hillary is in action.

But who else?  In 1960 the Democrats had a race for the nomination that featured Jack Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Stuart Symington, Henry Jackson, Lyndon Johnson, and Adlai Stevenson.  Look at the party today.  They have no bench at all. 

I point out that the titular head of that party for the last eight years has been Barack Obama.

March 13,  2015