Daniel Froomkin, while ranking the Democratic Party's potential nominees for president (we're only three years away!), makes a good point:
It may be unfair, but I still remember Senator Clinton as the person who trusted Ira Magaziner in the health care debacle. This tends to show the sort of poor judgment of people that we can't afford in a President (although, to be fair, Ira bamboozled a lot of smart people...).
I highlight this because the most recent Esquire, the one featuring a loving, tender profile of the Big Dawg, mentions that Ira Magaziner is now running Bill Clinton's post-presidency policy shop. Now, Ira's no idiot, but was he really so successful during the health care fight that Clinton wants to stake the coming initiatives that'll define his post-presidency on Magaziner's competence? If so, why?
