OH HOW JUICY! – AT 9:31 A.M. ET:  It's lefties against Hillary.  This could almost, but not quite, make me vote for Hillary Clinton.  From Newsmax: 

Liberal activists are slamming Hillary Clinton in a members-only group on Google, with some calling for Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for the White House in 2016 to teach the former secretary of State and mainstream Democrats a lesson.

"The establishment Dems need to be punished, and the best way for that to happen is for Warren to beat Hillary in the primary on a populist message," Carl Gibson, a progressive activist and writer for Occupy.com, wrote in an email obtained by The Hill.

Warren, 65, who is in her first term, has repeatedly said that she would not seek the presidency in 2016. Clinton, 66, who is seen as the likely Democratic nominee, has said that she will decide early next year on whether to run.

The Hill said it reviewed "hundreds of emails" from a the "Gamechanger Salon," a private, members only forum through which nearly 1,500 progressive activists, journalists, and strategists discuss issues and develop messaging efforts.

The group is run by Billy Wimsatt, founder of the progressive League of Young Voters, according to MediaTrackers.org, which first reported on the Gamechanger Salon earlier this year.

Its members include prominent Democrats, executives of such powerful unions as the SEIU and AFL-CIO, and officials and members of such organizations as Planned Parenthood, the Sierra Club and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.

The president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, Nancy Keenan, is a member — as well as journalists who work for such liberal news organizations as The Nation magazine and The Huffington Post.

New members to the group have to be sponsored by a current member, both the Hill and MediaTrackers report.

According to the Hill, the emails it reviewed from June 2013 through July show a clear dissatisfaction with Clinton.

"[A] Clinton presidency undos [sic] all our progress and returns the financial interests to even more prominence than they currently have," Melissa Byrne, an activist with the Occupy Wall Street movement, said in a November 2013 email.

COMMENT:  Elizabeth Warren yesterday voted against authorizing military aid to Syrian rebels.  Her stand is popular on the political left.  By contrast, Bill Clinton publicly supported the aid.  Hillary is positioning herself as a center-left Democrat for the general 2016 election.  Problem is, she's got to get the nomination first.  That was the little bump she encountered in 2008.

My hunch is that Obama will knife Clinton in the back.  Why would he want to be succeeded by someone to his political right, and someone who would outshine him?  Warren says she's not running, but it's amazing how people can suddenly catch the political virus just in time for an election.  I expect to see the "wanting" of Elizabeth.  How many people will want her is debatable.  She's actually quite well known, but doesn't poll significantly outside her own state of Massachusetts.

September 19, 2014