William Hartung is utterly right that Hillary Clinton "should not be spared some tough questioning during the primary process." No one is sacrosanct. No one who can't face the arguments head-on should be running for president.

That her campaign is raking in military-industrial dollars is surely cause for apprehension--though remember, those dollars would flow to other candidates if she weren't in the race. Military-company investments are cause for apprehension period, wherever they flow.

That said, frankly, Senator Clinton's foreign-and-military stance baffles me.

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She is cold-eyed about wanting power and raising money and turning everything about her life into a commodity.

I don't know the temperature of Maureen Dowd's eyes, or what she wants, but this morning she did break the pundit record for number of distinct irrelevancies in a single sentence.

A few questions: Is it is preferable to be hot-eyed about wanting power (see: Rudy)? Is it possible to do any good in the actual world without power? If you want power, what's the alternative to raising money? "Turning everything about her life into a commodity"--come on! I'm not enamored of the junior senator from New York's prose style, but hasn't the junior senator from Illinois published two best-sellers, and hasn't John Edwards let the world in on his wife's illness, and was it HRC who sold rights to reports on her husband's sex life to Newsweek?

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