A familiar visitor has returned to the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign: her cough.  It had been taking a time out from the campaign, but yesterday, at the AFSCME Convention in Las Vegas (the holist of holies for Democrats), coughs interrupted her speech: The cynic in me wonders if the cough is a placeholder for sure loser Hillary’s eventual withdrawal from the campaign, before – or more likely after – she is nominated next week by the Democrats. Although it is forbidden to raise the topic, many Democrats are obviously uneasy over her unappealing manner and her string of lies over emails refuted by no less than the director of the FBI.  They see Donald Trump pulling even with her in the polls and realize that he could well defeat her in November. Democrats think almost any other Democrat than Hillary could defeat Trump.  If the trajectory of the race does not change, I think it is very thinkable that an approach would be made to...(Read Full Post)