If the purpose of the column was to link Obama to Hillary, Dowd could have saved herself the trouble. They are linked at the hip, as anyone paying minimal attention would see. Hillary ran as a defender of Obama's legacy, and Obama backed her to the hilt over Sanders. 

All's fair in love & politics and dancing on political graves is hardly the crime of the century you make it out to be.

Frame it anyway you like, the Clintons,( Bush II), and Obama helped pave the way for Trump. And for that they get the consolation prize of having to "suffer" by living a life of ease and plenty while watching their political graves danced on by a columnist. Oh the horror!