Hillary's still running on the script written by Bill, offering "two for the price of one." He runs interference for her when he can, as after the debate debacle, falsely blaming the Bush administration for their failure to release their promised voluminous White House records that he controls. She runs on her experience in the White House and calls for more transparency in the current administration while together they keep their records, which could reveal who knows what, hidden from the public.
Bill and Hill, as described by Sally Bedell Smith, are less of a married couple than two orbits of power, "more akin to John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby, who served as attorney general and operated as a de facto vice president while serving as the president's eyes and ears and closest adviser." The Clintons are "political warriors" and she wouldn't be running if not for his coattails -- his advice, contacts, connections. Ironically, Bill shows the more traditional female sensibility, and she reveals the masculine style. "You get a hug from Bill and a solution from Hillary, as one of her friends says." Bill is "mushy" and Hillary is "unsentimental." He feels everybody's pain but hers. She adapted.
Monica Lewinsky cut into Bill's historical legacy, but he saw Yasser Arafat depriving him of the Nobel Peace Prize when he refused to accept a promising compromise to make peace with Israel. Hillary's chance at the White House offers Bill the prospect of getting a do-over to right his White House wrongs. Nothing gets his dander up like the accusation that he had Osama bin Laden in his sights but couldn't pull the trigger. How much did Hillary know, and when did she know it?
The events of 9/11 revealed the Clinton years as particularly trivial, with his peccadilloes and her conspiracy theories measured against authentic tragedy, but together they've forged a fresh commitment to the pursuit of power. The question for the rest of us is, do we settle for two cut-rate has-beens for the inflated price of one?