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Re: CLIP | NYT: Dowd: Joe Biden in 2016: What Would Beau Do?

From:jpalmieri@hillaryclinton.com To: re47@hillaryclinton.com CC: ha16@hillaryclinton.com, john.podesta@gmail.com, kschake@hillaryclinton.com Date: 2015-08-01 15:15 Subject: Re: CLIP | NYT: Dowd: Joe Biden in 2016: What Would Beau Do?

She is full of self loathing. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 1, 2015, at 1:13 PM, Robby Mook <re47@hillaryclinton.com> wrote: And just when she'd seemed to quiet down... On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Huma Abedin <ha16@hillaryclinton.com> wrote: > this is such a horribly cruel piece > what is wrong with this woman?! > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Ian Sams <isams@hillaryclinton.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/opinion/sunday/maureen-dowd-joe-biden-in-2016-what-would-beau-do.html?referrer=&_r=0 >> >> Joe Biden in 2016: What Would Beau Do? >> >> Op-Ed Columnist Maureen Dowd >> >> August 1, 2015 >> >> WASHINGTON — A PATTERN of cutting corners, a patina of entitlement and >> inevitability, has led to this. >> >> Destroying digital messages and thwarting official investigations while >> acting all innocent about wiping out sensitive material. >> >> Avoiding reporters after giving disingenuous explanations at >> uncomfortable news conferences. Claiming egregious transgressions are a >> private matter and faux controversy while sending out high-power lawyers >> and spin doctors to deflect and minimize. >> >> Two controlling superstars with mutable hair and militant fans, married >> to two magnetic superstars who can make a gazillion an hour for flashing >> their faces and who have been known to stir up trouble. >> >> A pair of team captains craving a championship doing something >> surreptitious that they never needed to do to win. >> >> It turns out Tom Brady and Hillary Clinton have more in common than you >> would think. >> >> Brady had his assistant terminate his Samsung phone the day before he >> talked to an investigator about Deflategate. Hillary set up a home-brew >> private server, overruling the concerns of her husband’s aides, and erased >> 30,000 emails before the government had a chance to review them to see if >> any were classified. >> >> Brady and Hillary, wanting to win at all costs and believing the rules >> don’t apply to them, are willing to take the hit of people not believing >> them, calculating that there is no absolute proof. >> >> They both have a history of subterfuge — Brady and the Patriots with >> Spygate, Hillary with all her disappearing and appearing records. >> >> Robert Kraft, the owner of the Patriots, is out there rabidly defending >> Brady. The crafty Hillary has her own rabid defender in David Brock. Kraft >> and Brock both have a financial interest, of course, in bleaching the >> images of their quarterbacks. Hillary and Brady have billion-dollar >> operations, and their sketchy value systems force people around them into >> seamy Faustian bargains. >> >> These may be mere speed bumps for these top players. But in the case of >> Hillary, problems of style and substance are starting to scuff her sheen of >> inevitability. >> >> There are tensions in her campaign that echo the failed 2008 campaign. >> Her rare interviews have seemed robotic and infused with the queenly >> attitude that put off people last time, before she melted in New Hampshire >> and decided, as in “Frozen,” to Let it go. Can Hillary convey authenticity >> only when she thinks she’s losing? >> >> Once more, she has figuratively and literally roped off the press, >> sloughing off her promise at a journalistic dinner four months ago for a >> fresh start. >> >> Her strategists worry about surveys showing that voters do not trust her. >> But her private server is a metaphor for her own lack of trust and a >> guarded, suspicious mind-set that lands her in needless messes. >> >> The Wall Street Journal on Thursday offered yet another unsavory saga of >> what appears to be Clinton back-scratching. After Hillary, as secretary of >> state, intervened to help make a deal where UBS had to turn over only a >> small fraction of the account information sought by the I.R.S., UBS amped >> up its donations to the Clinton Foundation and paid Bill Clinton $1.5 >> million to do some Q. and A.’s for the company. >> >> Hillary is lucky that she faces a crowded, absurdist Republican field >> cowering in the shadow of the megalomaniacal showman Donald Trump. >> >> But two recent Quinnipiac University polls show her unfavorability rising >> in swing states. She now trails Jeb Bush by one point, after leading him by >> 10 in May, and Joe Biden leads Jeb by one point. >> >> The Starbucks chairman and C.E.O. Howard Schultz at a 2012 shareholders >> meeting. >> >> Elaine Thompson / Associated Press >> >> Many Democrats fret that she seems more impatient than hungry, more >> cautious than charismatic. They are increasingly concerned that, aside from >> the very liberal Bernie Sanders, who could be approaching his ceiling in >> the early states, there is no backup if something blows up — no Jimmy >> Garoppolo to step in while Brady is suspended for four games. >> >> Potent friends of America’s lord of latte, Howard Schultz, have been >> pressing him to join the Democratic primary, thinking the time is right for >> someone who’s not a political lifer. For the passionate 62-year-old — >> watching the circus from Seattle — it may be a tempting proposition. >> >> After coming up from the housing projects in Brooklyn, Schultz reimagined >> Starbucks and then revived it. He has strong opinions, and even position >> papers, about what he calls the fraying American dream. While he was >> promoting his book on veterans last year, he honed a message about making >> government work again and finding “authentic, truthful leadership.” >> >> Joe Biden is also talking to friends, family and donors about jumping in. >> The 72-year-old vice president has been having meetings at his Washington >> residence to explore the idea of taking on Hillary in Iowa and New >> Hampshire. >> >> He gets along with Hillary and has always been respectful of the >> Democratic Party’s desire to make more history by putting the first woman >> in the Oval Office. >> >> But going through the crucible of the loss of his oldest son, Beau, to >> brain cancer made the vice president consider the quest again. >> >> Vice President Joseph Biden. >> >> Jae C. Hong / Associated Press >> >> As a little boy, Beau helped get his father through the tragedy of losing >> his beautiful first wife and 13-month-old daughter in the car crash that >> injured Beau and his brother, Hunter. >> >> When Beau realized he was not going to make it, he asked his father if he >> had a minute to sit down and talk. >> >> “Of course, honey,” the vice president replied. >> >> At the table, Beau told his dad he was worried about him. >> >> *My kid’s dying, *an anguished Joe Biden thought to himself, *and he’s >> making sure I’m O.K. * >> >> “Dad, I know you don’t give a damn about money,” Beau told him, >> dismissing the idea that his father would take some sort of cushy job after >> the vice presidency to cash in. >> >> Beau was losing his nouns and the right side of his face was partially >> paralyzed. But he had a mission: He tried to make his father promise to >> run, arguing that the White House should not revert to the Clintons and >> that the country would be better off with Biden values. >> >> Hunter also pushed his father, telling him, “Dad, it’s who you are.” >> >> It could be awkward for President Obama, who detoured from the usual >> route — supporting your vice president — and basically passed the torch to >> Hillary. Some in Obama’s circle do not understand why he laid out the red >> carpet for his former rivals. “He has no idea how much the Clintons dislike >> him,” said one former top White House official. >> >> But the president has been so tender and supportive to his vice president >> ever since learning that Beau was sick, it’s hard to say how he will react. >> Since the funeral, Obama has often kept a hand on Biden’s back, as if to >> give him strength. >> >> When Beau was dying, the family got rubber bracelets in blue — his >> favorite color — that said “WWBD,” What Would Beau Do, honoring the fact >> that Beau was a stickler for doing the right thing. >> >> Joe Biden knows what Beau wants. Now he just has to decide if it’s who he >> is. >> >> >> -- >> Ian Sams >> (423) 915-6592 >> > >