If anyone doubted something I’ve written repeatedly on this page—that Bill and Hillary Clinton prefer to see a McCain victory on November 4th, so that Hillary can run unencumbered in 2012—just get a load of Bill today with the ladies of “The View,” and in other interviews, as he prepared to open his Clinton Global Initiative in New York.

He could not have been sweeter in his tributes to John McCain and, especially, to Sarah Palin. Although using the word “hot” in relation to her was probably not the most politic word choice. “I come from Arkansas, I get why she’s hot out there,” Clinton said. “Why she’s doing well.”