McCain’s Green-Eyed Monster---By MAUREEN DOWD

[davidnc76]

Not since Iago and Othello obsessed on the comely Cassio, not since Richard of Gloucester killed his two nephews, not since Nixon and Johnson glowered at the glittering J.F.K., has there been such an unseemly outpouring of boy envy.

Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson and John Edwards have all been crazed with envy over the ascendance of the new “It” guy, Barack Obama.

Unlike his wife, Bill Clinton — the master of fake sincerity — still continues to openly begrudge his party’s betrothed.

Asked by Kate Snow of ABC News in Africa whether Obama was ready to be president, Clinton gave a classic Clintonian answer: “You could argue that no one’s ever ready to be president.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/opinion/06dowd.html?ref=opinion

[DavidDvorkin]

1. Edwards was crazed with envy?

I must have missed that. I thought he handled the media ignoring him with gentlemanly grace.

I'm still pissed off about that, but Edwards seems to have gotten through it well.