Blood Feud summary

If we don’t like someone, it’s easy enough to simply screen their calls and hope we don’t run into her on the street. It’s different in politics. In fact, sometimes you have to jump into bed with your enemy, no matter how much the thought may sicken you.

In August 2011, things weren’t looking good for Obama. According to a Gallup poll, only 41 percent of voting-age Americans thought Obama was doing a “good job.” Similarly, a Pew poll showed that of the 52 percent of independent voters who voted Obama in 2008, only 37 percent wanted him re-elected.

Over a game of golf, Obama convinced the former president to help him seek re-election. Clinton was delighted with this opportunity – not only would it secure Obama’s support for Hillary in 2016, it would also give him an opportunity to ultimately plan his treachery against Obama.

Clinton’s main contribution was convincing people that the faltering economy wasn’t Obama’s fault. This was critical, as 56 percent of eligible voters at the time deemed Obama’s economic policies, the so-called Obamanomics, a failure.

On 11 September 2012, a group of Islamists attacked a US diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, killing four American citizens, including ambassador Christopher Stevens. While it isn’t entirely clear what transpired on that day, it is clear that Obama was poised to put Hillary Clinton in the firing line to avoid taking responsibility for those deaths.

In essence, Obama forced Hillary to play along with a cover-up story she knew might harm her in the future.

Obama faced a number of difficulties during his second term. Not only was Congress rejecting all his proposals, but the Clintons, who felt Obama wouldn’t keep his implicit promise to support Hillary in 2016, had also begun to exact their revenge.

Obama made revenge easy with a series of blunders, such as the roll-out of Obamacare, whose webpage had promised that purchasing health insurance would be as easy as “buying a TV on Amazon.” Yet nothing worked. The page crashed continually, the policy explanations were all wrong and the sign-up process didn’t function properly.