The Plank

by Walter Alarkon - 06/02/08 9:10 AM ET

If Hillary Clinton is really looking ahead to the 2012 presidential race, she should have done more to stop her supporters at Saturday’s Democratic committee meeting from pledging to vote for John McCain and blasting Barack Obama as “an inadequate black male,” writes Jason Zengerle. If she had, it would have been easier to “plausibly den[y]” that she deserved blame for an Obama loss, Zengerle writes. Bill Clinton’s personal life, one of the topics of a Vanity Fair profile, is still fair game because Hillary Clinton is running for president and acting as if she can still win, writes Isaac Chotiner.

Tags Barack Obama Bill Clinton Hillary Clinton John McCain