A Vanity Fair piece on Bill Clinton, titled “The Comeback Id,” is making waves. The article suggests that the former president remains an ethical liability for his wife by associating with a loose crowd and continuing to chase women.
The piece reads like a hit job and relies on anonymous sources and gossip.
Still, Clinton responded self-indulgently this week with a rope-line rant at a campaign event, calling the writer (Todd Purdum, the husband of – get ready – former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers!) “sleazy,” a “scumbag” and “slimy,” among other choice epithets. (He later apologized for using the language.)
You wonder: Are press secretaries finally deciding to get their revenge?
Anyway, Hillary Clinton might be ready for her husband’s portion of the campaign to end.
Barack Obama is expected to secure the Democratic nomination tonight, between the primaries in South Dakota and Montana and the endorsements of more superdelegates. It has certainly been an epic race, but also one that, columnist Richard Cohen argues, had a lot to hate about it. “Yes, voter participation is way up and in the end, the Democrats will choose a woman or an African-American and, to invoke that tiresome phrase, history will be made,” Cohen wrote. “But this messy nominating process has eroded the standing of both candidates. It has highlighted the reality that racism still runs deep and that misogyny, although more imagined than real, is not yet a wholly spent force. This is an ugly porridge that has been placed before us, turned rancid since the cold, pristine days of Iowa only five months ago.”
The New York Times gave an overview of the hurdles facing the development of carbon capture technology for coal plants, which basically involves separating carbon dioxide and pumping it into the ground.
At present, this “clean coal†technology remains years away at best — and at worst, it will never be effective or affordable. The federal government recently pulled its support for the nation’s showcase project for carbon capture after developers reported technical difficulties and went way overbudget. And utilities in five states have canceled projects designed to further carbon capture.
We need research on clean coal, but the obstacles can’t be ignored.
“You can’t run this country from the left ditch or the right ditch. You have to run it right down the middle of the road,†Jim Slattery, who plans to file today as a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, recently told a Salina gathering. He also called Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., one of the Bush administration’s “most loyal troops†from 2001 to 2007, and said Roberts has “never had an opponent in his life who’s run a competitive race. He’s in for one this year.†Maybe, but first Slattery has to beat Overland Park railroad engineer Lee Jones in the Democratic primary on Aug. 5.
A Vanity Fair piece on Bill Clinton, titled “The Comeback Id,” is making waves. The article suggests that the former president remains an ethical liability for his wife by associating with a loose crowd and continuing to chase women.
