The XX Factor: What women really think.

Out of Control

Newsweek's Jon Alter has a piece about Bill Clinton's recent hostile and aggressive campaign behavior. Alter quotes former Clinton lawyer, now Obama supporter, Greg Craig wondering "if Hillary's campaign can't control Bill, whether Hillary's White House could." I think we probably have all the evidence we need (see the former No. 1 best seller known as "The Starr Report") that no, Hillary Clinton cannot control her husband. Even if she became the most powerful person in the world, if he started embarrassing her, probably the best she could do would be to declare him an enemy combatant and ship him off to Guantanamo.

I guess Bill's attacks have been working -- Hillary won the last two contests. But in the long run, won't his self-righteous rants hurt her? Every time he gets riled he seems like someone who, for the past seven years, has only had to deal with questions from lesser mortals such as, "Would you like one pillow or two in your sedan chair, my liege?" In last night's debate Obama criticized Bill's attacks on him, and Hillary responded that she was the one running for president. Obama replied that sometimes it was hard to tell. Isn't that truth terribly undermining of her claim to the presidency?