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One of the reasons President Clinton's astounding remarks Wednesday evening on the Coast were seen by so few other than those lucky readers in the habit of clicking onto the online edition of The New York Sun is that much of the event was closed to the press. Our correspondent, Josh Gerstein, tells us that not only was press access to the fund-raiser restricted but that tickets to the general public were also sold out. So he worked the line and eventually was able to purchase a ticket to hear the man who is still the most popular Democrat in...

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton mixed presidential gravitas and familiar talking points in the second and final debate of her re-election race yesterday, assertively challenging Bush administration policy on Iraq, Iran, and North Korea while carefully defending her own record on abortion rights. As in the first debate on Friday against her Republican challenger, John Spencer, a former mayor of Yonkers, Mrs. Clinton’s poise bordered on the monochromatic: She offered no new big ideas about the future of New York, she appeared engaged and mostly unflappable, and she used language that fell somewhere between safe and scripted.

Love her position on the war or hate it, you can’t argue that she’s waffled. And isn’t that what we want in a politician? Here is senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in December 2003: “Now that we’re [in Iraq], we have no choice. We own this issue. There is no doubt that we’re going to be there for years,” and “Whether you agreed or not that we should be in Iraq, failure is not an option.” Here she is in November 2005: “I do not believe that we should allow this to be an open-ended commitment without limits or end. Nor...