Obama Reportedly Ready to Back Elizabeth Warren for President

Lay down with snakes and you will get bit. The Clintons reportedly supported Obama in 2012 despite their understandable distaste for him in return for his promise to back Shrillary in 2016. But there is nothing Obama needs from the Clintons at this point, so if there was such an agreement, only honor would compel him to keep his end of the bargain. Honor is not a common characteristic among leftist community organizers. Consequently he may be dumping Shrillary in favor of the only major political figure as far to the left (and as farcical) as himself — the faux Indian Mother of Occupy Wall Street herself, Elizabeth Warren:

The president has remained publicly mum about who he would back in the 2016 race for the White House, but reportedly he has expressed concern that Ms Clinton – who has long been the unofficial frontrunner for the Democratic nomination – would undo many of his policies.

Senator Warren, a former Harvard law professor and administration aide, could energize the left wing of the Democrat Party more than the [relatively] centrist Ms Clinton would, in the same way President Obama did in 2008, Edward Klein argues in the New York Post. Warren also helped set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2011.

Klein, who is the author of author of Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas, wrote that sources told him President Obama has quietly promised Senator Warren his support if she runs and has authorized his chief political adviser, Valerie Jarrett, to convince her to join the race.

Ms Jarrett has held a series of secret meetings with Senator Warren in recent weeks, arguing that she be more likely to carry on President Obama’s legacy after he departs the White House.

That she would; Warren is the furthest left of any major figure in American politics. Given her shrieking, hysterical demeanor and lunatic fringe rhetoric, there is no chance that she would deviate from a direct course toward Marxism–Leninism. Even Shrillary, who is at least sane enough not to deliberately sink the boat she is sailing on, would be a massive improvement over Fauxcahontas.

On a tip from Ken.