Yet another signal from former President Bill Clinton, in an increasingly long list of news reports indicating that, unlike most professional politicians, he is unable to put on a happy face to show that he favors party unity over a specific candidate: he’s going skip Democratic Sen. Barack Obama’s acceptance speech.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.