Bill Clinton’s new role: the traditional political spouse

THE small mining hamlet of Rock Springs, Wyoming, might not be the first place one would expect to find the former leader of the free world.

But here was Bill Clinton in south-west Wyoming, ahead of today’s Democratic caucuses, telling about 1,000 people how his wife, Hillary, would establish 10 clean-coal technology projects if elected president in November.

“Some environmentalists don’t think we ought to be doing anything with coal,” he said. “But think about it, you could become, maybe, the first totally energy-independent state in the United States.”