A SLIGHT NUDGE – AT 11:08 A.M. ET:  One of Obama's former intelligence officials is urging Hillary Clinton to get out of the presidential race.  From CNN:

Washington (CNN) President Barack Obama's former top military intelligence official said Hillary Clinton should pull out of the presidential race while the FBI investigate her use of a private email server for official government communication while secretary of state.

Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the retired chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency, made the call in an interview with Jake Tapper on "The Lead."

"If it were me, I would have been out the door and probably in jail," said Flynn, who decried what he said was a "lack of accountability, frankly, in a person who should have been much more responsible in her actions as the secretary of state of the United States of America."

Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon later told Tapper the general's suggestion was "just silly" and pointed to similar FBI probes of former Secretary of State Colin Powell and of aides to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

"In both of those two cases, you now have the same agency looking at their emails, personal emails, and saying that there is information that in retrospect they think should be treated as classified," Fallon said. "The exact same situation playing out in the two previous secretaries before Secretary Clinton. So I think that tells you everything about the relative seriousness of this."

When pressed by CNN, Flynn said, "I don't have any personal evidence" that Clinton or one of her staffers took material off a classified server and put it on an unclassified server.

COMMENT:  The bottom line here is that Clinton is a terrible candidate, always enveloped in one scandal or the other, and feeling that the country "owed" her the presidency.

But now the problem:  If not Clinton, who?  I don't think Americans begin to understand the implications of a Bernie Sanders presidency.  And yes, I do believe Sanders can be elected.  The Republican Party is so confused, the press so biased, that a Sanders presidency would make Obama's look like a minor opening act. 

A Clinton presidency would be awful, and dishonest.  But look at what Sanders believes.  His presidency could be fatal.

February 13,  2016