Some wise FReepers have commented that Baraq has a "tactical nuke" that would be used on the Clintons if they employed their vaunted private detective operation against him. That seems like a reasonable explanation for why Baraq the ghost was able to make it through the election cycle unscathed. Other contenders may not have that problem, but it only works if the MSM is willing to run with it.
“That seems like a reasonable explanation for why Baraq the ghost was able to make it through the election cycle unscathed.”
I don’t know.....You may be right, but People select a candidate to vote for the shallowest of reasons, and I think the Clintons recognized that.
I think Baraq wore an invisiblity clock of the historical first black presidential candidate, and it mattered not that his blackness was not from American former slave blood and his “blackness was diluted by a white mother, or that he was untested, unaccomplished, and underqualified. People wanted what was accurately predicted by Biden as a “clean, well-spoken black man.”
The Clinton’s were smart enough to realize that Obama was so ideological and, at the same time, so unqualified, as to be a hugh failure as a President. For them, patience was a virtue, so much so that “See? Ya should have gone with Hillary and gotten us both!” will resonate in the left wing mind.
I don’t think that there are reasons or motivations beyond that. The clintons are hoping that Obama’s expected, and now realized, failure will rebound to their favor. They, however didn’t factor in that Obama’s failure would be so bad as to sour the well for all that tried to come after him.
Additionally, I believe that the Clinton’s hour, on a National level, has come and gone years ago.....in 1998. They just won’t admit it yet.