Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Why is Bill Clinton so angry?

Even liberal/Democrat columnists like the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson have noticed:
Clinton, he writes, has put "high-mindedness on hold -- maybe it was never such a great fit, after all -- to co-star in his wife Hillary's campaign as a coldblooded political hit man."

Why? Because Barack Obama threatens to "eclipse" Clinton's presidency and his accomplishments.
"There's a battle to be fought against an upstart challenger who has the audacity to suggest that maybe the Clinton presidency, successful as it was in many ways, didn't change the world -- and that he, given the office, could do better. Some things, I guess, just can't be allowed. Bill Clinton obviously has decided that history can wait."

Sounds right to me. It's always most interesting when progressives like Robinson write about other progressives. It's revealing.