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HILLARY'S SUICIDE MISSION – AT 9:29 A.M. ET:  It's pretty clear that Hillary Clinton is going down in flames.   She may have dreams of running again in 2020, but her own party is getting fed up with her blame-everyone crusade, in which she tries to cast the blame widely for losing last year to a very problematical GOP nominee named Donald Trump.  From CNN: 

Washington (CNN) Democratic data gurus are lashing out at Hillary Clinton after she complained publicly that her campaign was hamstrung by a party that had out-of-date information on individual voters.

Clinton said Wednesday in an interview with Recode's Kara Swisher that once she became the Democratic nominee, she inherited "nothing." The Democratic National Committee's data, she said, "was mediocre to poor, nonexistent, wrong. I had to inject money into it."

Her comments drew swift rebuttals from some Democratic operatives who built, or worked with, that data.

Andrew Therriault, the former DNC director of data science, lashed out in two since-deleted tweets.

"I hope you understand the good you did despite that nonsense," he said in a message directed to DNC data staffers.

David Radloff, the co-founder of the Democratic data and analytics firm Clarity Campaign Labs, tweeted: "Used DNC data on numerous campaigns this year, well managed, efficient, accurate. Real question is who's feeding Clinton bad info and why??"

John Hagner, a partner at Clarity, added: "I worked with DNC data every day last cycle, on winning Gov races. It was accurate and up-to-date and I'm grateful for their hard work."

Many Democrats noted that Clinton -- just like her opponent Bernie Sanders -- had access to the DNC's data from the outset of her campaign. Therefore, they said, if there was trouble with the data, her staff would have known long before she won the Democratic presidential nomination.

COMMENT:  The idea in politics is to make friends, not enemies.  Hillary hasn't gotten the memo, and her enemies list is growing.   She's coming off as an embittered former candidate who was memorizing the oath of office before the votes were counted.

She might wish to spend more time with the family.  I suspect that's her future. 

June 2,  2017