Clinton watcher: Biden 'itching to get back in game'
Investigative author Ed Klein: Hillary weakening under Trump attacks
Published: 7 hours ago
NEW YORK – Vice President Joe Biden’s recent comments, which include praising Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on CNN Monday night for his blast at income inequality, make it clear Biden is “itching to get back in the game” and that he even is “clearly positioning himself to do so,” investigative author Ed Klein told WND.
Klein also said the political insiders he is talking with are interpreting Biden’s recent comments as a sign Hillary Clinton is weakening politically.
“I take seriously Biden’s comments to CNN that nobody questions [that] Bernie Sanders is authentic speaking on the subject of income inequality, especially when Biden added that it’s ‘relatively new’ for Hillary to talk about that,” he said.
“I was also impressed when President Obama told CNN that he was worried about Biden caring for Beau’s family without his son’s salary,” he added. “Obama offered personally to help Biden and Beau’s family out of the financial squeeze. You don’t get much closer to the president of the United States than that.”
Klein pointed to Biden’s comment to an NBC affiliate in Connecticut that he regrets “every day” that he didn’t enter the 2016 presidential race, but the decision was in his family’s best interests.
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“There’s a new atmosphere in American politics today,” Klein said. “The state of mind of the American electorate has changed. There’s a revolution going on, or at least an insurrection, and the voters want to throw all the bums out. Hillary looks like a relic of the past and the political upheaval is benefiting Bernie Sanders. Hillary looks like she’s trying everything and nothing is working.”
Klein also told WND Bill Clinton’s sexual abuse history has come back to haunt Hillary, as has her record of attacking Bill’s sexual abuse victims, refusing to take seriously their testimony of what they suffered during Bill’s serial infidelity.
“Younger people seeing Bill Clinton campaigning for his wife in New Hampshire had to ask, ‘Who is this old guy? And why did he do all those terrible things we are now hearing about?'” Klein observed. “It’s what I’m calling the ‘Cosby Effect.’ The sexual abuse charges against Bill Clinton are having more impact today on the Clintons than at any time since maybe the impeachment hearings, or at least since the year 2000, when the Clintons left the White House – some 15 years ago.”
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Klein compared how ineffective Bill Clinton was during his recent appearance in New Hampshire to how effective he was only four years ago while giving a major speech endorsing Barack Obama at the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
“Their health is another issue,” Klein continued. “Bill Clinton looked horrible as the savior of Hillary Clinton. He doesn’t look like he has it in him anymore to be Hillary’s savior – even if it weren’t for the sexual abuse problems, Bill Clinton does not seem to have the ‘fire in the belly’ anymore, or the energy. He has deteriorated over the last four years.”
He also wondered if Biden’s recent comments indicate he knows something about the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails.
She apparently used a private and unsecured private server for government emails, including some that were secret or classified, prompting talk about potential charges against her.
On Monday, Fox News reported the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email traffic as secretary of state has expanded into a new investigation at whether the possible “intersection” of Clinton Foundation work and State Department business may have violated public corruption laws, according to three intelligence sources not authorized to speak on the record.
“The state of mind of the American electorate has changed and the voters are ready to throw all the bums out, Hillary included,” Klein stressed. “There’s a political revolution going on, or at least an insurrection and Democrats today are increasingly seeing Hillary as a relic of the past. In the upheaval going on, Bernie Sanders is getting the benefit of the doubt and Hillary is not. Hillary has tried everything and nothing is working.”
Klein pointed to a pattern of recent Biden comments that suggest political forces are moving rapidly, “with a lot of things going on simultaneously” that point to the possibility Biden may yet be ready to jump into the 2016 presidential race, especially if signs continue indicating Hillary Clinton’s 2016 effort may be faltering.
“I still think President Obama would prefer Joe Biden or Sen. Elizabeth Warren to be the Democrats’ presidential candidate in 2016,” he said. “But I think Joe Biden in recent days has been speaking for himself. I don’t have any information that President Obama has been meeting privately in recent days with the vice president to re-ignite the idea of a Biden candidacy.”
On Tuesday, Democratic Party candidate Bernie Sanders surged ahead of Clinton in polling in both Iowa and New Hampshire. A Quinnipiac University poll showed 49 percent of likely Democratic caucus-goers in Iowa say they will support Sanders while 44 percent chose Clinton. Also a Monmouth University poll showed Sanders surging ahead of Clinton with 53 percent compared to her 39 percent.
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