I have always admired the Clintons, especially WJ, and enjoyed rubbing his victories in the noses of my ultra-conservative co-workers, playfully anyway. However, I don't think that I am in the minority if I feel that there has been a slow deterioration of their ideals over the last 20 years. Rather than share in the hopes and dreams of millions of idealists, that this country is finally ready to be all-inclusive in gender and race, their vision has become clouded by the notion that the end justifies the means. Winning at any cost is not, I think, how they started their lives in public service. It is possibly what they may now be best remembered for. As we have watched this primary season unfold, the constant moving of goal posts has reminded me of a line from a movie, the title of which I can't remember, cynically delivered by Martin Mull; "We need to lower our standards, a little bit at a time, and only where it's important."n If you are in the fight long enough, as this  contest, and also the current administration's handling of detainees in the War on Terror has shown us, you become what you detested in the first place.