Oh, Bill. We'd love you even more if you'd just stop talking.

How is it that our Mr. Clinton can be so energizing and so aggravating at the exact same time? This is from the NYTimes.com's report of Coretta Scott King's funeral.

Of the four presidents, Mr. Clinton was the obvious favorite of the crowd. A huge cheer went up as he reached the open area near Mrs. King's coffin, and the crowd gave him a thunderous standing ovation when he approached the microphone with his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Mr. Clinton was followed by the far more formal remarks of Senator Clinton, who until then had stood silently nodding her head as he spoke.

Mr. Clinton began by saying, "I'm honored to be here with my president and my former presidents." Then he paused briefly and gestured toward Mrs. Clinton, his unspoken words seeming to suggest that he wanted to say future president, too. When the crowd began cheering, Mr. Clinton laughed and said, "No, no, no."

Can there now be even a smidgen of doubt that she's going for it? In my perfect world, there would be no war, we'd use budget surpluses to shrink the deficit, give everybody health care, and I'd probably vote for Hillary in a primary. In the real world, I don't think she can win. If Bill keeps talking about it, the Dems might be paralyzed by the idea long enough to lose another election. Why can't he just stop talking already? It's the same problem that Gore and then Kerry had: you can't win with him, and you can't win without him.