You know, there was a reason I didn't trust Bill Clinton when it came to selling his ill-fated health-care package to the American people in 1993, and not solely for its socialist overtones.

The 42nd U.S. President had a quadruple bypass performed on him, from which he is now recovering.

I was happy to hear this news. Unlike the anti-Bush losers, who seem to have an overwhelming need for a hate figure in their empty lives, I feel no sense of personal enmity toward Mr. Clinton. I don't wish him any harm. Other than free trade, the death penalty and welfare reform, I opposed most of what he stood for, and I feel he disgraced the White House with his sexual shenanigans and by committing perjury in front of the Grand Jury. Clinton took America down a route that any decent person with a shred of morality hoped would never happen. (Bush can't make America look bad or foolish - Clinton saw to that already.) But I'm glad the man, as a human being, is okay.

I hope that anyone so passionate about health-care reform will make a full recovery from his heart operation and will lay off the hamburgers and smoke cigars less frequently.