President Obama did not do Hillary Clinton any favors yesterday in his final State of the Union.
He didn’t tee up issues she can use to extend the Democratic stay in the White House. Rather, he more or less acknowledged that the normal process of legislation has ground to a halt during his presidency, and offered no ground for hope that would change under her.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign rally at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, January 12, 2016. REUTERS/Scott Morgan.
Instead the speech was about a world in which Obamacare is working well, our strategy in Syria — whatever it is — is leading to peace, the economy is booming even if it is also changing in disquieting ways, and of course Obama has proven to be constantly wise.
That is not the world in which most Americans think they live, which is something that Clinton must know well.
For more, read my Bloomberg View column here and here.
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