-- For the sake of $675,000 that this fabulously wealthy family scarcely would notice, Clinton created a new doubt about her judgment and a clear line of attack for her opponents and the news media. (The New York Post called out her "pathological need for cash.")
Having set out to capture the biggest prize of all -- the presidency -- Clinton still couldn't resist making a few pit stops to pick up easy, yet politically fraught, money.
For Clinton haters, of course, this offers a new opportunity for another hapless quest, marked by comic excess and the firm conviction that someone in that darned family will someday get their comeuppance.
For the rest of us, the tale presents the basic mystery of those whose appetites can never be sated. It poses the question of why a supremely intelligent, exceedingly competent, detail-oriented, ever-prepared politician just can't leave well enough -- or even well-off enough -- alone.