Credit where it isn't due

I hear Obama "supporters" say that frequently

"To this day, Bill Clinton and his administration do not get enough credit for what they did in Northern Ireland. Free of the constraint of Cold War politics, Bill Clinton did much to persuade the British government to regard the Troubles as a political as opposed to a law-and-order problem. The Clinton White House treated Britain, America's closest ally, and Ireland, which sent so many of its people to help build America, as equals, and that attitude dramatically altered the political equation and made Dublin and London work even closer. By allowing Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams into the United States, over British objections, Bill Clinton showed the IRA the benefits of abandoning violence and entering the political mainstream."

Rightly so. Bill Clinton, along with Soderbergh and Mitchell, stood up to the Anglophile tendencies of the State Department and foregin policy community and did the right thing. His point is that the credit belongs to Bill Clinton, not Hillary.

Letting Hillary take credit for Bill's diplomatic accomplishments is like giving Yoko credit for the White Album.