It's All About Hillary

Not sure what she means by Hillary's character problem, since the piece is more about her being a bad politician.

Rush Limbaugh's ruminations on the Drudge photo of Hillary's wrinkles prompt Maureen Dowd to say Limbaugh is right about our living in a looks-obsessed society. She adds:

"Hillary doesn't have to worry about her face. She has to worry about her mask. Back in the '92 race, Clinton pollsters devised strategies to humanize her and make her seem more warm and maternal. Fifteen years later, her campaign is devising strategies to humanize her and make her seem more warm and maternal.

"The public still has no idea of what part of her is stage-managed and focus-grouped, and what part is legit. It's pretty pathetic, at this stage of her career, that she has to wage a major offensive, by helicopter and Web testimonials, to make herself appear warm-blooded."

The Bill Factor is making a comeback as a campaign narrative, as demonstrated by this Daily News piece:

"Hillary Clinton's husband may be a political genius, but he's also a Bill in a china shop . . .

"Hillary Clinton might not be amused at the brouhaha her husband caused by saying that as president, she would immediately enlist the first President Bush to repair the overseas mess his son is leaving.

"The New York senator has also said she'd reach out to past presidents to help fix America's image. But Bubba's more pointed suggestion that Poppy would help clean up his son's mess provoked a smackdown from the older Bush's camp.

" 'That will not happen. There is no way he would do anything that would even indirectly suggest he has problems with his son's foreign policy,' a longtime friend of George H.W. Bush told the Daily News."

As if Hillary didn't have enough to worry about, the New York Post has this:

"Owe, brother!

"Hillary Rodham Clinton's youngest sibling is a deadbeat dad who owes tens of thousands of dollars in child support to his politically connected ex, The Post has learned.