In perhaps the least surprising political development since President Bush decided to get his moral mojo working with an election-year announcement that the hate that dare not speak its name needs to be written into the US Constitution, the New York Times has discovered that Bill Clinton -- get this now -- would like to help John Kerry's presidential campaign. And, scoundrel that the man is, he's planning to use his book tour to do it.

My God. Public relations in a book tour. Next thing you know, the Times will find avarice in the boardroom. Or politics in the redistricting process. Or vanity in blogging. Or....

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