Thursday, January 17, 2008

When narcissists marry

What happens when two narcissists marry and run for the same office? One party is probably not going to like it when the other takes their notoriety.

Joe Klein on America's favorite narcissists, the Clintons.

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Time columnist Joe Klein created a stir at the Council on Foreign Relations earlier today when he suggested that "an element of unwitting sabotage" may be behind Bill Clinton's series of apparently off-message comments while campaigning on behalf of his wife.

Klein speculated: "He's worrying, 'Maybe she's going to be a better president than I was'."

He also suggested that Clinton was ambivalent about his wife’s candidacy because, alongside those fears, "Consciously, I think that he sees her [possible] election as president as the final validation of his presidency."

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