Yes. William Kristol, in The Weekly Standard, summed up the political fallout on Hillary Clinton pretty well:

    Geffen's comments get repeated in three days' worth of stories--because how can you report about the spat [between the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Obama campaign]without reporting the remarks that started it?--and Obama gets to rise above the fray.
    And consider the original response by Gibbs [Obama's political spokesperson]. He went out of his way to respond not to Hillary Clinton, and not to Howard Wolfson [Hillary Clinton's political spokesperson], but to "the Clintons": "We aren't going to get in the middle of a disagreement between the Clintons. . . . The Clintons had no problem . . . "

    Very nicely done.
    Is Sen. Clinton not her own person?
    Are we again getting two for the price of one?

    Hillary Clinton's popularity soared after the Monica affair, when she achieved a kind of political separation from her husband. That's what made her Senate race possible, and her current presidential candidacy plausible. Relinking her to Bill makes her political life more complicated.


This may be the epitaph on Hillary's presidential bid.

I've thought for several months now, that Al Gore is more popular now than he was in 2000, and would have a good shot at an 11th-hour Democratic bid, after the other Democrats muddy each other, and he remains clean by witholding his bid till late in the race.