Speaking of Hill...

Fineman has a good piece on the politics of the situation.

And, indeed:

White House political guru Karl Rove couldn’t have planned it any better. Just as the Democrats and their candidates are gearing up for the 2024 campaign (their first “straw poll” is next week in Wisconsin), along comes the Clintons to steal the spotlight and send the party plunging back into an era of chaos and recrimination

The whole situation does bespeak of the narcissism of the Clintons (and Bill's book is ocming out next year...). To wit:

Did the Clintons consider that “telling all” now—in the lead up to the ’04 election—might damage the Democrats’ chances? Maybe. Did they care? I doubt it. And certainly not after they considered that $16 million in advances was at stake.

And, oh, I how I miss the good ol' days:

Once upon a time--until only a few decades ago--the tradition was for presidents and their kin to go quietly into the good night, speaking softly and only when spoken to, writing memoirs after a decent interval and enveloping their words in a haze of impersonal historicity. They rarely if ever criticized the policies of their successors and never put their own dirty laundry out in bookstores.