Charles Pierce: President Obama Cracked an Amazing Joke About Debbie Wasserman Schultz

[Peace Patriot]

46. It does look like that, doesn't it? I agree.

But hard to fathom Obama. Not sure what he's up to with Clinton. I just feel he's got some reasons to loathe her --rather like most Americans do, in so many polls, but with more at stake for him personally.

If she's indicted and his administration ends in scandal, not good for him.

If the FBI wants to indict, and he interferes--and it becomes known (which it probably would)--not good for him. ("Saturday Night Massacre," etc.) (He himself could be impeached in that case, late in his term.)

If he's arranged for a whitewash of Clinton by the FBI (if it's a protective rather than a real investigation) and the Pukes find out, not good for him. (He'll be out of it, but his legacy would be tainted. His legacy is in peril almost no matter what he does.)

In the unlikely event that the FBI, doing a real investigation, finds the pay-to-play okay, and finds the insecure server okay, and finds whatever else they're looking into okay, he can relax and look forward to a very nice retirement with the occasional lucrative speech. He'll be known as a peacemaker, but no one will ever know why he did the things he did--for instance, the visit to Cuba. (So unusual, so dramatic, so offensive to the Miami mafia.) Or won't ever know the real reason: Honduras.

Oh, wanted to ask you: Do you mean, by "messing with one President by another is a Big No No," Bill Clinton messing with Obama via the Clinton Foundation? I'm not sure what you meant.

Chicago politics. Hm-m-m. Maybe we'll end up thinking of Obama as our savior. It is VERY weird having a candidate for president, in the middle of an election, being investigated by the FBI. It is as unprecedented as having a candidate running a quite successful presidential campaign on small money. I don't think that's happened before either. (And presidential candidates comparing their dicks--that's new, too.)

Still, the FBI investigation--even with 150 agents getting cataracts studying all those emails--could be just a ploy to outwit the morons in Congress.

Stay tuned.