EDITORIAL GET WELL SOON AMERICA WISHES CLINTON A SPEEDY RECOVERY.

LESS than four years out of the White House, it seems hard to imagine that Bill Clinton could fall prey to unchecked heart disease. Doesn't the president of the United States get the best health care in the world? How could the doctors have missed a problem that would ultimately require a quadruple bypass to fix, one which almost led to a heart attack?

The answer is that heart disease is a silent killer, one that can sneak up on any of us.

Clinton remains popular with many because of his everyman persona. Despite the power and prestige, he's always seemed like one of us. And like the rest of us, he exercised too sporadically and had a weakness for fatty foods.

Those habits landed him in the hospital, getting a type of surgery that hundreds of thousands of Americans receive every year. There's a lesson here, and it's that all people's lifestyles catch up with them eventually, even with former presidents of the United States.

And in this, a time of hyperpartisan division, Democrats and Republicans alike can come together in wishing our 42nd president a healthy and speedy recovery.