Searching for a Surrogate

Searching for a Surrogate

Watching Bill Clinton act as Barack Obama's "No. 1 surrogate," in the words of National Public Radio, is as exquisitely painful as watching a runaway monkey with a paintball gun at a museum.

Most of the pundits have focused on Clinton's motivations for refusing to read his lines from the White House script. That's understandable given that Clinton is a one-man reality show whose diversity of motives makes the ladies of the "Real Housewives" franchise seem nun-like in their simplicity.

But asking "Why?" of Bill Clinton is a sucker's game. Sure, he may give you an answer...