He’s trying to be the helpful husband, but Bill Clinton just can’t help but talk himself into a corner.

He appeared in an interview with Charlie Rose last night. Try to follow his convoluted explanation of Hillary’s health.

What’d he say?

“Well if it is, it’s a mystery to me and all of her doctors because frequently—well not frequently, rarely—but on more than one occasion, over the last many, many years, the same sort of thing happened to her when she got severely dehydrated.”

Huh? So what is it — frequently, or not frequently? Rarely, or not rarely? And over how many years? Three? Five? Ten?

Wait, what?

But, it’s because she has worked so, so hard for the American people.

“She’s worked like a demon as Secretary of State. . .”

Heh. Like a ‘demon.’ You don’t say.

And about that pneumonia diagnosis. . .

“A friend of ours called and left a message today, that her husband had actually just been hospitalized for pneumonia apparently there’s a lot of it going around and a bunch of her staff has gotten sick. But she’s just doing fine. She just got dehydrated yesterday.”