The Obama-Clinton Feud Lives

SAN DIEGO -- Many Americans don't understand what Hillary Clinton's email scandal is really about. Oddly enough, this includes Clinton herself.

The Democratic front-runner continues to blame the brouhaha on partisan attacks by Republicans, and on a busybody media that is out of step with voters. According to polls, Democratic voters insist they don't care much about the scandal. Yet the polls also show that many of those same voters have serious doubts about Clinton's truthfulness and believe that she did something wrong.

This week, the Democratic frontrunner finally apologized, telling David Muir of ABC News that she was "sorry" for the dustup. "I take responsibility," she said. "And I am trying to be as transparent as I possibly can."

A Hollywood screenwriter couldn't write a story this good. With every development and document dump -- including the news that a special intelligence review confirmed an earlier assessment that multiple emails on the server contained classified material -- it's becoming clear that this is the grand finale to one of the great human dramas of our time.

I speak, of course, of the epic feud between the Democratic Party's version of the Hatfields and the McCoys: the Obamas and the Clintons.

The liberal media have tried to paper over the fact that these two families don't like each other, and that each is bent on destroying the other, by advancing the narrative that the administration's first term represented a "team of rivals."

To borrow a phrase that Bill Clinton once used to describe the media's kid-gloves treatment of Obama, what a "fairy tale."

Now it's the Obama administration that is leaking the details about its policy for handling classified material -- information that is creating legal and political problems for Hillary Clinton. Making matters worse, this material is not coming all at once, either, in which case the Clinton campaign might be able to swat it down before the voting begins. Instead, it's drip by drip.

Of course, the Obama-Clinton rivalry was born during the 2008 Democratic presidential primary when Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton slugged it out for their party's nomination.

Clinton surrogates accused Obama of selling drugs, studying in a "madrassa" as a boy, ascending in the polls only because he was African-American, and trying to "shuck and jive" his way to the nomination.

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