Compartmentalize this

Clinton's a Compartmentalizer Are You?
   From WaPo's Andrew Goldman and Alexandra Jacobs a little while back came this nice stand-in [or is it stand up?] that George Plimpton pecked out after spending time with our aw-shucks, silver-haired savior:

   "It was summer 1996, and the writer George Plimpton was sitting opposite Bill Clinton on Air Force 1 en route to the Olympic Games in Atlanta. Mr. Plimpton, who was on assignment for Sports Illustrated, asked the President to pick an Olympic event in which he could envision competing.
   "He answered the decathlon," Mr. Plimpton said. "He said it was because, there, you had 10 disciplines that you could concentrate on   … And it's quite evident that he has the ability to do it, too. This is a man who is able to stand and give a speech and not have you-know-who popping up in the back of his head."
   In a word, Bill Clinton is the national embodiment of a neurotic symptom that has showed up as the self-description of overreachers everywhere: compartmentalization. And, boy, can he compartmentalize.
   Never before has American public life been witness to a man who can open and shut the many doors of his mind and soul with such chilling self-assurance. The country has watched with wonder and nausea as Bill Clinton has diffracted himself into several Bill Clintons — the adulterer, the good father, the loyal husband, the lousy husband, the liar, the truth-teller, the empath, the charmer, the politico, the policy wonk, the man who loved Yitzhak Rabin, the man who strokes Yasir Arafat, the peacemaker, the missile launcher, the liberal, the social conservative, the moral arbiter, the seducer.
   Is he polymorphous? Is he perverse? He is the man about whom Toni Morrison wrote, "He's our first black President." And yet he's not a black man.
   He's just trained, as his generation was, to be all things to all men, and women. And not too much of anything to anyone."
   Hmmmmmmmm.
   Say, is that Tiger Woods trying to blast out behind a knot of trees?  Nope, apparently he's "pulling out" of his next tournament because of some (... wait for it...) "stiffness". Maybe he needs some coaching from Bill if he's to get his game back.