Oooh, looky, ABC News thinks it has a scoop on Mitt Romney.  Brother Hinderaker summarizes:

“Romney in Stem Cell Biz, Despite Political Opposition.” Mitt is in the “stem cell biz”? Sounds like he’s carrying out experiments in his garage. Well, not exactly. It turns out that something less than one one-thousandth of Romney’s fortune is invested in a company called Novo Nordisk, which carries out some kind of stem cell research. ABC portrays this as a “gotcha” moment, in which they have caught Governor Romney in a contradiction.

That fortune is, of course, in a blind trust while Romney pursues the presidency.  The purpose of a blind trust is to separate a candidate from any suggestion of impropriety in seeking personal enrichment by political means - which would not only be redundant in Romney’s case, but also suggests that the entire 110th Congress should be entombed in a blind trust and the key thrown down a mine shaft.

But I digress.

The very nature of a blind trust is that the candidate is separated both from its contents and from the associated day-to-day decisions of how and where they are invested.  So, by any reasonable interpretation, Governor Romney cannot be “gotten” on something over which he, by definition, has no control.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is keeping over two million personal documents from her first (okay, technically it was her husband’s) presidency - which would provide a useful and educational insight into the kind of person she is and the kind of leader she would be (as though we don’t have a pretty good idea already) - under lock & key until after the 2008 election, and evidently ABC News thinks that’s just fine.

Two million pages in eight years.  That’s a quarter-million a year.  Almost seven hundred a day.  And this woman didn’t hold an actual job or federal office; she was just the president’s “trophy wife” (Okay, bowling trophy, but still…).  How does a mere first lady possibly kill that many trees?  There aren’t that many cookie recipies on the face of the freaking Earth.  So why keep them secret?

Talk about a “blind trust”.