He's the Snake to My Mongoose, or the Mongoose to My Snake.

E.J. Dionne argues in his column in the Washington Post that a Barak Obama candidacy is good for Hillary Clinton, as well as Sen Bayh. The concept is that instead of a Hillary/ anti-Hillary primary, Democrats would be treated to a primary where candidates would need to define themselves, and more importantly take chances.

The idea that caught my attention was his comparison of Obama to the Bill Clinton of 1991/92.

In 1991 Gov. Bill Clinton railed against politicians who "have divided us
against each other, pitting rich against poor, playing for the emotions of the
middle class, white against black, women against men, creating a country in
which we no longer recognize that we are all in this together."
In his New
Hampshire debut over the weekend, Obama said that we had "come to be consumed
by" the "24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative-ad, bickering, small-minded politics
that doesn't move us forward. . . . There's no sense that they are coming
together in a common-sense, practical, non-ideological way to solve the problems
that we face."