Friday, February 15, 2008

Peggy Noonan: "Have Bill and Hillary's political talents vanished?"

Peggy Noonan reflects on the streak of bad news that has hit the Clintons over the past weeks. Noonan notes this about Bill Clinton:

To top it all off, Mrs. Clinton has, for 30 years, held deep respect for her husband's political acumen, for his natural, instinctive sense of how to campaign. And he's never let her down. Now he's flat-footed, an oaf lurching from local radio interview to finger-pointing lecture. Where did the golden gut go? How did his gifts abandon him?