Todd Purdum: What's your motive in railing on Bill Clinton?

Todd Purdum, editor in chief of Vanity Fair, just completely attempted to tear former President Bill Clinton apart in a 12-page article from the July 2008 edition of Vanity Fair. I, having been the ages of 2-10 during the Presidency of Bill Clinton, know very little about him. I am a well-read politics follower today, but I couldn't say the same about my former self when I was eating crayons in Mrs. Gluszcz's first grade class. After reading the article, and learning of a lot of his questionable acts, I question the purpose of this article. Why did Purdum slam Clinton right now? I am pretty sure he supports Barack Obama, but the main idea behind Obama's campaign is that old, dirty political tricks are going to be out of play. This article throws Obama's campaign into the past. Purdum makes some outrageous claims (all unusually from anonymous sources) about the former President about how and why he is "killing Hillary's campaign."

Sure, after being President for eight years, getting the country on the right track, and then having it all ruined by Daddy's little boy for the following eight years, I'd be a little pissed off too. There is definite reason for an elevated amount of anger in Bill, but to say that this is from his heart surgery is outrageous. Some doctor out of Johns Hopkins said something that could be construed as saying this is taken for fact by Purdum, regardless of the fact that the doctor has absolutely no affiliation with Clinton or his medical records. Also, in the after-effect of this article, Purdum has been on countless news stations saying that the article says that Bill is "angry from the time he gets out of bed to the time he goes to bed." The article mentions this in a three paragraph, half a page section. This is not the point of the article.

The article meant to point out questionable dealings and associations the president has made since he left office, and I believe that it succeeded at this. I had no idea that Bill Clinton went with Canadian mining magnate Frank Giustra to Kazakhstan so Giustra could buy uranium projects from the state-owned business. This does not sound like the dealings of a former President, and Purdum should have focused more on facts like these in his numerous interviews, rather than the heart-surgery after-effects. It would have been much more effective at doing whatever it is that Purdum wanted to do. All that he had accomplished from this was making himself a liability to the Obama campaign and making Bill a liability to the Hillary campaign. Kudos to you Purdum for further dividing the Democratic party!