Columnist Suzanne Fields has a great piece on the personal and the political:


“When Queen Elizabeth II visited Washington the other day, reporters and columnists went gaga, cheering America’s love affair with royalty. Britain’s The Economist magazine observed that it didn’t take a visit from a British monarch to give the White House an ‘air of royalty.’ Royal fever is contagious. If Hillary is elected in 2008 and re-elected in 2012, ‘the world’s greatest democracy will have been ruled by either a Bush or a Clinton for 28 years straight.’ Or as Michael Barone put it, ‘Bush, Clinton, Bush — Clinton? It sounds like the War of the Roses.’ That’s not exactly a royal flush, but it does add a dimension to the fusing of the personal with the political. …


“Hillary must be wary about too close an identification with Bill, popular though he is in many quarters. Bernard Lewis, the eminent scholar of Islamist terror, argues that the Clinton administration gave Osama bin Laden the idea that America was weak, indecisive and vulnerable when Bill Clinton didn’t respond to the terrorist attacks on his watch — the first World Trade Center bombing in New York in 1993, attacks on U.S. soldiers in Mogadishu in 1993, the Khobar Towers bombing in Riyadh in 1996, the attacks on the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and the assault on the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen in 2000.”