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Every morning, after my cup a joe, I sit down at my computer and visit news.google.com for a look at the day's news (google doesn't write the stories, they simply report stories from media both large and small). My hope during this morning interlude is that strides will have been made in the fight on global warming, that the economy will have somehow improved (or at least curbed its free fall) and that Obama will have found even more fans (both large and small). On far too many mornings, however, I am greeted by yet another appalling report on the shenanigans of Hill and Bill.

Today's beauties:

1. Christopher Hitchens reports in Vanity Fair that during Bill Clinton's presidency, Hillary insisted that Bill back off his promise of U.S. aid for the masses caught in the crossfire in Bosnia. Why? If Bill's move was a miscue, it might give Congress fodder to back away from her health care initiative. Bill followed Hill's orders and over the next four years, over 250,000 people proceeded to die in the Bosnian debacle.

How does Hillary sleep at night? This story, from the well-sourced and well-respected Hitchens, made me absolutely sick.

2. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Bill Clinton gave a stern talking-to to a gathering of California's superdelegates over the weekend. In a nutshell, he went ballistic when a Hillary supporter told him she was sorry that James Carville had called Bill Richardson "Judas" because he had shifted his support from Hillary to Barack. The former president is said to have turned beet red and screamed that Richardson had promised him FIVE times that he'd support Hill. (Richardson is on the record as saying that no such guarantee was ever given.)

I guess Bill C. forgot that Bill R. said in his endorsement of Obama that Barack's moving speech on race, delivered only days earlier, was the key factor in his endorsement. It wasn't all about Bill or Hill for Richardson, it was about what Richardson felt was his truth at the end of the day. Looks like Bill was struggling with the truth in that room full of superdelegates.

I tell my six-year-old all the time that's it's not all about him and it's not all about me. It's an important lesson -- and one that the Clintons, clearly, have never gotten.