KATHLEEN PARKER ON OBAMA: Nobody Likes A Loser. “Democrats seem to be inching away from their man, undermining and diminishing the president with a thousand tiny cuts. Not even his strongest alleged ally, Bill Clinton, can stay on message. Of course, Clinton has never really been Obama’s friend, despite his assertions to the contrary. Does Clinton think that Obama has been a good president? Of course not. He thinks that he was a good president and that his wife would have been better than Obama. . . . In the political jungle, where people tend to be more Darwinian than divine, he is wounded and the pack is beginning to turn. Former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell, who could be a hockey mom if he wore lipstick, recently told CBS’s Charlie Rose that Hillary Clinton would have been a better president. Yes, that is blood you smell.”

UPDATE: Reader David Horwich writes: “Yes, that is blood we’re smelling in the water. Thought experiment: what if Bill Clinton is undermining BO for his wife NOT for 2016, but instead for 2012? Knowing Dems, who have demonstrated an uncanny ability to shift any rule they like for political convenience, wouldn’t the biggest surprise of all be if they put HER up for November instead of rapidly-becoming-radioactive Barack?”

Well, if Obama pulled an LBJ, Hillary would be the first name to everyone’s lips, especially since the other leading candidate from 2008, John Edwards, is out of the picture. But I don’t see it.

But boy, Obama’s not getting any respect from the Post today . . . .