{UAH} A careful Clinton keeps Biden at bay

But the most fascinating post-debate discussion today, far and away, will be the one that happens in the West Wing, when President Obama and Joe Biden sit down for their weekly lunch.

I'm betting Hillary Clinton is pretty interested in that conversation too.

Obama understands the calculus here. He gets the political realities as well as anyone, and he no doubt recalls that Republicans ran a lot further from George W. Bush in 2008 than Clinton is running from him these days.

At the same time, though, Clinton has to be careful — at least as long as Biden is weighing a run of his own — not to inflame tensions with her former colleagues at the White House.

You can see the potential peril for Clinton here. To the extent that Biden has articulated a rationale for running, it's that someone ought to campaign on the administration's record, of which he is enormously proud. The more Clinton seems to trash that record, the wider she opens the door.

And it must occur to both Obama and Biden that if Clinton is willing to blithely toss aside longstanding positions like her support for free trade at a time when her hold on the nomination isn't being seriously challenged by anyone who's actually electable, then she's probably willing to toss aside any other accomplishment that might become something of an inconvenience.

By the time she gets to November 2016, Clinton might be railing against health care and the Iran pact too, for all we know.

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/a-careful-clinton-keeps-biden-at-bay-110305926.html

Sincerely,

Brian M. Kwesiga