Bobert 1 Mr Obama's popularity is dropping like a stone and the worse effects of the melt down have not been felt yet.
       2 The Party is already divided over Mr Obama's deals on taxation and loss of electoral support, it might be said that Mrs Clinton could "heal" the Party.
       3 She will arguably be to old or infirm in 2016
       4 Last time Mr Obama was the new broom who was about to effect great change...this time he is an ineffectual bumbler with feet of clay.
       5 Ambition trumps intelligence in political circles.

All this is of course hypothetical, as no one is making any serious attempt to discuss the possibilities or even the validity of the story....Ake