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Yeah, I know what you're thinking. You see their smirks and those six bloody elbows between the three of them, and you figure this is no relationship.
But it is a relationship that works for the president because they keep bringing up his favorite subject. And it works fine for Barack and Hillary because it fills their egos with a mighty wind.
It just doesn't work for the Democratic Party.
It is a relationship that benefits Trump, because every time Obama or Clinton open their mouths, America is reminded of what was rejected in 2016 -- Clinton's presidential hopes and Obama's dreams that she'd keep his legacy intact.
Trump doesn't much want to talk about
But if there's one thing Trump loves talking about, it's the 2016 election, and how the media was (and is) against him, and how those snotty liberals swinging their basket of deplorables lost the working class and blue-collar Midwestern states.
So what do Hillary and Barack do? They keep serving up 2016 on the tips of their silvery tongues.
They feed their egos and get face time, and Barack spins some fantasy about actually caring about
And Hillary, having announced that she's finally come out of the woods to visit us, spins us her favorite Russian fairy tale.
Entertaining, yes, but it hurts the Democratic Party. By refusing to go away, they prevent the party from evolving. And without developing some cogent theme besides Boiling the Rich, and Hating Trump, without grooming and nurturing new vibrant personalities, the Democratic Party is in trouble.
Jealousy isn't a strategy. Envy and identity politics and obstructionism aren't either. Even the amusing symptoms of
Yet as long as Barack and Hillary haunt us, the
But it doesn't help the Democratic Party. It helps Hillary. It helps Barack.
Smart
They see Clinton as some
Smart professional
Obama visited
The original temple design reportedly wasn't flashy enough for Obama, so a grander one was sketched, and he may even visit, with his golf clubs. Here's how the
But outside the
There should be a sign out front: Obama helped
Every day and every night, the West and South sides bleed and roll over on the sidewalks, another deadly spring turning into another deadly summer.
And Hillary? When she announced, in that chirping voice, that she'd come out of the woods, I tried not to think of a tiny hut on chicken feet, magically moving from glen to glen. And the other day she told another Russian fairy tale of her own.
She blamed the Russians hacking into the
It was pathetic.
If "the election had been on
And if there were no iceberg, we'd never remember the Titanic.
"It takes a lot of work to lose to
But she loves it back there, doesn't she? And so does the president.
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John Kass is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune who also hosts a radio show on WLS-AM.