POSTED ON NOVEMBER 30, 2015 BY JOHN HINDERAKER IN 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION,HILLARY CLINTON

DO HILLARY’S EMAILS CONFIRM CLINTON-OBAMA ENMITY?

In the nation’s capital it is commonly believed that the Clintons and the Obamas can’t stand one another. I pretend to no insider status with regard to such D.C. conflicts, certainly not on the Democratic side. But the latest batch of Hillary Clinton’s State Department emails, released today, offers some support for that belief.

The State Department released several thousand emails today. Out of curiosity, I searched for “Sid” and was rewarded with nine pages of documents–including, as always, duplicates. Sid Blumenthal ranked high on the list of those who emailed directly to Hillary at her off-the-books, unsecured address; most such communications were forwarded to her by Huma Abedin or Cheryl Mills.

Reading Blumenthal’s emails, one is reminded of the fact that he is an “old friend” of Hillary’s, as she told a Congressional committee, and has no such relationship with Barack Obama. When she became Secretary of State, Hillary wanted to appoint Blumenthal to a State Department post, but President Obama refused to go along. The Obamaites say this is because Blumenthal had no qualifications for a foreign policy position, but when has that ever stopped Obama? See, e.g., Ben Rhodes, Obama’s Deputy National Security Adviser.

The current batch of emails, along with those previously produced, suggest a better reason why Obama didn’t want Blumenthal inside his administration’s tent. Blumenthal’s emails display an open contempt for the president and his closest advisers. A good example is this one, sent on September 28, 2010. It concerns the upcoming midterm elections, in which, by late September, everyone anticipated a Republican victory. The email begins with Blumenthal’s assessment of what is going on among the Republicans, whom he hates with a venom that is, on the written page, creepy. More interesting are his comments on the Obama administration. First, here is the document as produced by State:

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