Time columnist Joe Klein created a stir at the Council on Foreign Relations earlier today when he suggested that "an element of unwitting sabotage" may be behind Bill Clinton's series of apparently off-message comments while campaigning on behalf of his wife.

Klein speculated: "He's worrying, 'Maybe she's going to be a better president than I was'."

He also suggested that Clinton was ambivalent about his wife’s candidacy because, alongside those fears, "Consciously, I think that he sees her [possible] election as president as the final validation of his presidency."  read more »

Hillary Clinton is quitting her job on the Democratic policy steering committee in the Senate because of other time commitments, reports Glenn Thrush.

The President picked a new RNC Chairman: Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida.

New York magazine's well-written political blog announces that it won't be posting early or often anymore.

Incoming GOP state chairman Joseph Mondello works at the same law firm where Assemblyman Mark Weprin is of counsel. Weprin is close to Democrats Spitzer and Sheldon Silver. And pictured above is the El San Juan Hotel and Casino, where at least one person who attended the Somos El Futuro conference is demanding some money back because the hotel's pool is under construction.

Essayist Shelby Steele tells Joe Klein:

"White people are just thrilled when a prominent black person comes along and doesn't rub their noses in racial guilt. White people just go crazy over people like that."

Klein adds this observation:

"With the exception of a bipartisan effort with ultra-conservative Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma to publish every government contract--a matter of some embarrassment to their pork-loving colleagues--his record has been predictably liberal."

"Chancelor Joe Klein" is how the first line reads. Later, he's "Joe Kline."