In a new memoir, South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford writes that Gov. Mark Sanford sought her advice about his romance and how to deal with the media after she discovered his extramarital relationship with an Argentine woman.

Jenny Sanford, who managed political campaigns for her husband during their 20-year marriage, writes in "Staying True" that the governor used her as a sounding board, wondering aloud whether he should follow his heart to Argentina and if he would live a life of regret if he didn't.

"Clearly those are thoughts I wish he had kept to himself," Jenny Sanford writes in the book to be released on Friday. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the 214-page book, published by Ballantine Books, on Tuesday.

I'm pretty sure, though, that he won't be discouraging people from donating their meager dollars to OFA, or hectoring the corporations to consider giving raises to their employees or hiring some new ones with all those millions they spend on lobbying activities and donating to political candidates.

Looks to me like the normally cautious but human Obama just can't lay off making Vegas the playful target of his public rhetoric, sort of like how some normally outstanding and disciplined star QBs can't resist taking that one high-risk and ill-advised gamble that ends up being costly for his team.  

"I guess you've all seen the president's remarks or read about the president's remarks, well I've got some remarks of my own. I was back in Washington, D.C. about two weeks ago, going up and down the halls of the capitol telling people about our economy here, trying to get them to be sympathetic to what we're trying to accomplish, then I have to read what President Obama said.

"He has a real psychological hang up about the entertainment capitol of the world. An apology won't be acceptable this time, I don't know where his vendetta comes from but we're not going to let him make his bones by lambasting Las Vegas, that's why (the press) is here today.

"He didn't learn his lesson the first time, but when he hurt our economy by his ill conceived rhetoric, we didn't think it would happen again, but now that it has I want to assure you, when he comes I'll do everything I can to give him the boot back to Washington and to visit his failures back there.

"I gotta tell you this, everybody says I shouldn't say it, but I gotta tell you the way it is. This president is a real slow learner."

David Gergen talked about the one final meeting Clinton held in the Oval with about a dozen aides and congresscritters.  They went around the room and every person weighed in against gays openly serving; only the last speaker, Al Gore, disagreed.

Clinton also had to hear the influential Sen Bobby Byrd talk about how homosexuality, he claimed, had led to the fall of the Roman Empire.  Silly stuff, but Byrd in 1993 had clout on the Hill.