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If Hillary Clinton runs for president, shell be getting a lot of help from Wall Street. But her friends and confidants there tell me she truly hasnt decided yet.

So why is she hesitating? The big reason, according to these sources, has to do with the dude who occupies the Oval Office now.

Barack Obamas rapidly disintegrating presidency and the chance it will get even worse is Clintons top worry these days as she weighs whether shell run, and can win, in 2016, these folks say.

Of course, most of Hillarys Wall Street buddies from Goldmans Lloyd Blankfein to Blackrocks Larry Fink think shell end up throwing her hat into the ring. Shes being urged to take the plunge, they say, by many confidants as well as by both her husband the former president and their daughter Chelsea.

Shes said to think that former Florida ex-Gov. Jeb Bush, with his moderate-to-conservative track record and broad appeal to Hispanics, would be a difficult foe in a general election (even with that last name), but that Republican infighting might well produce a much weaker candidate, someone who appeals to right-wing Tea Partiers and almost no one else.

Age is another cause for doubt: Clinton would be nearly 70 if she took office but thats still younger than Ronald Reagan when he took the oath, and 70 isnt as old as it was then, either. (The new 60? 50?) Plus, despite rumors about health problems, people who know her say they believe Hillary is healthy enough to withstand the grind of campaigning.

No, apparently the big risk she sees is the potential taint of her old boss, President Obama.

This goes beyond the continued unpopularity of ObamaCare, even though shes tied to that albatross not just by Democratic Party political realities by also by her push for a similarly unpopular health system during her husbands presidency.

It even goes beyond the failures of Obamas foreign policy though of course Hillary, as his secretary of state for his first four years, also gets tainted not just by the Benghazi tragedy but the countrys weak standing throughout the world.

No: Her biggest fear, Im told, is that the Obama economy gets even worse.

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