INTERESTING read on how the Obama campaign saw Ms Clnton during the 2008 primary and how they saw the way to defeat her. Not much has changed it would appear...

"And while it’s true that Obama had a superior organization and an optimistic message, the real beginning of the end for Hillary Clinton was when Obama attacked her greatest vulnerability: her character."

Part of the internal memo on how to beat her....

"“Change you can believe in” was intended to frame the argument along the character fault line, and this is where we can and must win this fight. We cannot let Clinton especially blur the lines on who is the genuine agent of change in this election.

• The reason Clinton can’t be trusted or believed when it comes to change is that she represents, to a great degree, the three sources of discontent formulated in our premise.

• She’s driven by political calculation not conviction, regularly backing away and shifting positions on issues ranging from war, to Social Security, to trade, to reform.

• She embodies trench warfare vs. Republicans, and is consumed with beating them rather than unifying the country and building consensus to get things done.


• She prides herself on working the system, not changing it—rebuffing reforms on everything from lobbyist donations to budget earmarks.


How to Beat Hillary Clinton - The New Yorker

You sort of wonder why, if he believed all of this that he used to beat her, why in the world he selected her for Secy of State.

Politics as usual !!!