From Politico — www.politico.com/…
Barack Obama is laboring mightily to remain neutral during Hillary Clinton’s battle with Bernie Sanders in Iowa. But in a candid 40-minute interview for POLITICO’s Off Message podcast as the first flakes of the blizzard fell outside the Oval Office, he couldn’t hide his obvious affection for Clinton or his implicit feeling that she, not Sanders, best understands the unpalatably pragmatic demands of a presidency he likens to the world’s most challenging walk-and-chew-gum exercise
He repeatedly praised Clinton without reservation while offering more tempered praise to the surging Sanders.
When I asked Obama if Clinton is facing “unfair scrutiny” this time around, his answer was a clipped “yes” — and he even admitted a tinge of regret that his own campaign had been so hard on her eight years ago.