Is Lincoln or Hercules Obama's best analog?
READING my colleagues' debate over the wisdom of approaching Hillary Clinton for secretary of state duty (here and here), the team of rivals approach suddenly seems to warrant some second-guessing. The concept, that joining disparate temperaments, philosophies and habits will be wiser than an easy consensus seems both courageous and insightful. And yet, with names like Joe Biden's, Larry Summers's, Rahm Emanuel's and Mrs Clinton's attached, the whole concept suddenly sounds a lot less like Plato's Academy and a lot more like the labours of Hercules.As my colleague noted, Mrs Clinton has already reminded Barack Obama of the chance he has taken by allowing a surrogate to describe her as "conflicted." To be conflicted makes perfect sense, but to say so publicly seems like
