Bill Clinton caused heads to turn when he spoke of "the awful legacy of the last eight years" in campaigning for his wife in Spokane, Wash. Hillary Clinton's flunkies quickly took to Twitter contending the former president was not referring to President Obama but to his Republican opposition.

Candidates' wives are in the middle of the political fray. Donald Trump accused Ted Cruz of using a semi-nude picture of his wife Melania in an ad and warned he would "spill the beans" on Cruz's wife, Heidi. Cruz fired back with a denial, adding, "if you try to attack Heidi, you're more of a coward than I thought."

The scandal-ridden Veterans Affairs department has added another claim to shame. Elizabeth Rivera, a worker in the Puerto Rico VA hospital, was unable to report to work for an extended period of time because she had been sent to prison for armed robbery. When she got out she found she had been fired. But her union got her reinstated (with back pay) by pointing out that management's labor relations negotiator is a registered sex offender.