Hillary: 'I'm ready to come out of the woods'

[karynnj]

209. That is not fair

It is true that people like those in the black caucus were for Clinton. It is also clear that starting before she resigned as Secretary it was understood that she was the person that President Obama and many others thought the best person to be the next nominee. As to 2008, the entire process was set up to make it hard for anyone not named HRC to get the nomination. The main way this was done was that 23 states all had their primary or caucus on superTuesday. This was designed to create a barrier that no one without her level of name regonition could have scaled. As talented and as charismatic as Obama was - if he had not gotten the very high profile endorsements of Ted and Caroline Kennedy -- and Kerry, Daschle and Durbin before that AND if Bill Clinton had not gone very negative -- it would not have happened.

Now, you could argue that the support for her was based on many important Democrats having long wanted her as the nominee -- and - in essence that it was what meant. She was so overwhelmingly their favorite -- and her team garnered endorsements very very early - that no one other than O'malley (likely running to be VP) and Bernie Sanders (likely to get the less than 5% that Kuchinich got) ran against her.

Jill Stein was far less a factor than Ralph Nader. As to Comey, had she given the State Department all the emails before she left - no one would ever have heard she had a private server. Her emails had been requested before she left office. She KNEW she did nothing wrong. If the SD had them, they would have given the committees and media the ones that met the criteria - redacting as needed -- and it would have been over long before 2016. This was a self inflicted wound -- made worse by her handling it poorly when it became known.