Re: HRC was picture perfect yesterday
From:john.podesta@gmail.com
To: brentbbi@webtv.net
Date: 2015-08-27 14:13
Subject: Re: HRC was picture perfect yesterday
Thanks. I am sure you are right, although I think most, including at the
top are on our side.
On Thursday, August 27, 2015, Brent Budowsky <brentbbi@webtv.netwrote:
> IMO yesterday was a very good day. I am thrilled that on the email issue
> HRC
> offered a change of tone towards what I consider the strongest position,
> and her
> handling of the Biden issue was picture perfect. Advocates such as myself
> can
> take a respectful but harder line, while she took the right respectful but
> softer line.
>
> I would warn that regarding at least some Obama White House staff, when the
> Clintons next dine at the White House they should bring a food taster and
> wear
> body armor that covers their backs with at least some people there. I
> picked this
> up from several sources, though I will not write about this.
>
> Virtually all the reaction to my Why Biden Shouldn't Run, and Won't column
> was
> strongly positive except for some mainstream media players who want to gin
> up
> a divisive battle. My guess, speculating, is that Biden saw it and
> probably asked
> his staff "Could he be right that I would be seen as a vulture candidate?"
>
> I did give an extended interview to The Sunday Times of London who called
> about
> my Biden column. The reporter directly asked me about reports he is
> hearing that
> some in the White House are working to undermine HRC. I thought about it
> for
> a full minute, and then told him that it doesn't matter to me whether he
> quotes me
> or not, but my on-the-record answer was that my take is that many in the WH
> support HRC, at least some privately do not, and that there are a handful
> of
> individuals over there who are preternaturally Machiavellian,
> preternaturally stupid,
> and preternaturally indiscreet though IMO this is a minority view of
> little practical
> consequence to the campaign.
>
> Sent from my iPad