Bill Clinton to Drop the Ball...Again

There are just all kinds of jokes I could make about this:

Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, will kiss 2008 goodbye on the world's biggest stage this New Year's Eve.

That's because Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the Clintons will have the honor of pushing the ceremonial button that signals the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball to begin lowering at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday night.

Given how Clinton dropped the ball on the terrorist threat all through the 90's, this seems completely appropriate that as a president leaves office who vigorously fought terror, the Clintons should be there to remind us what it was like when we "dropped the ball".