The starting point of the review is the claim by Bill Clinton that the media is giving Obama a "free ride" and the "fairy tale" on his judgement and it gets lost right away. The remaining points of the article focus on the Clintons, votes and statements on the Iraq War. Given, from the media, we only have Obama and his stance on the War to compare to, it is pretty clear cut - he was right on the war and she was not. There may have been lies and lack of investigation by the media on the run up to the war, but it was her responsibility to see through the fog from the White House like Obama did, and she did not. That does not eliminate the charge that the media, including this author is giving Obama a "free ride" in this campaign. ... More »

Effective in creating an image of( to borrow the NYTimes term) "Clintonism". As an editorial it provides supporting documentation and perhaps captures the mood of the large, on-the-fence subset of Democrats and Independents.