Your post sent me off looking to see what the heck was "Creeping Charlie."
That's nasty looking stuff.
Posted on 06/05/2003 3:53:29 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:42:41 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Hillary Rodham Clinton shows her softer side in her new book, taking some responsibility for "botching" health care reform and not being sensitive enough to people who thought she should be a traditional first lady.
But the New York senator does not apologize for the causes she felt passionate about.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Your post sent me off looking to see what the heck was "Creeping Charlie."
That's nasty looking stuff.
I feel as though I've eaten a big bag of crapola seeing the Witch Hillary on TV all day today.
Did ya all pick up on the scripted word the Hillary lovers used?
"Any Fair minded person" ....................Oh please!
All the talk is still about the Hildebeaste, looks like, between Rush and the local radio talkers. Of course, as most radio folk are part of the vast right wing conspiracy, they're all pointing out how much she lied. Once in a while, a pathetic pea-brained liberal will call in and say, "You're just jealous!" I don't know what they mean by that. One seemed to indicate the host might be jealous of Bill's success with the women, a laughable concept, at best. Just amazing.
HLL, call Aggie Mama.
Remember Speaker Jim Wright?
I feel a new tag line fermenting.........
Found another memoir boo-boo:
But two recent volumes -- our Post colleague Peter Baker's "The Breach" and former White House aide Sidney Blumenthal's "The Clinton Wars" -- appear to differ with Sen. Clinton's account of President Bill Clinton's shocking admission and its aftermath.[snip]
[Obligatory I gulped, I cried, etc.....]
But Baker reports that Clinton actually got the real story two days earlier, on the night of Aug. 13, from trusted attorney David Kendall. "And so it fell to him at that critical moment to play emissary from husband to wife, to disclose the most awful secret of any marriage," Baker writes on Page 24. "Something obviously had gone on between the president and Lewinsky, Kendall had told the first lady in his soft, understated way. The president was going to have to tell the grand jury about it. Only after Kendall laid the foundation did Clinton speak directly to his wife."
Last night, Kendall weighed in to contradict Baker's account, which Baker told us was based "on more than one authoritative source." Kendall told us: "Actually, I did not inform her of the Lewinsky matter. I believe the account in her book is accurate."
The morning after Kendall's visit to the first lady, the New York Times published a front-page story headlined: "President Weighs Admitting He Had Sexual Contacts." This was a full 24 hours before the morning of Sen. Clinton's playlet of revelation and betrayal in the first couple's bedroom.WashPost
Speaking of newspapers, even the NY Lies, er - Times - gets it:
Two leitmotifs run through Hillary Rodham Clinton's wildly hyped new memoir, "Living History."
One has to do with her changing hairstyles, which are discussed in detail at least a half dozen times, as they morphed with Madonna-like frequency from long to short, from frizzy to hair-banded to carefully coiffed. The other has to do with Mrs. Clinton's penchant for blaming enemies, from political opponents to a "vast right-wing conspiracy," for her and her husband's failures and travails.
The first underscores the chameleonlike quality she's always shared with her husband, the belief, as he once put it, that character "is a journey, not a destination." The second underscores both the highly partisan atmosphere of the 1990's and the Clintons' reluctance to assume full responsibility for their own mistakes and evasions. ...
Overall the book has the overprocessed taste of a stump speech, the calculated polish of a string of anecdotes to be delivered on a television chat show.
Mrs. Clinton is fond of talking about herself in lofty terms as a symbolic figure. "While Bill talked about social change, I embodied it." Her 562-page book is in many ways an artifact of the curious age in which we live: an age in which confession and "sharing" have become talking points for public figures, and scandal translates instantly into celebrity. An age in which tough, talented women can ascend to high political office but often experience their greatest popularity when they are perceived as less-threatening victims. book review
"I wasn't born a First Lady or a senator," is the first sentence in Hillary Rodham Clinton's memoir, "Living History." The rest of the story is about how she became both.
In the book, which will be officially released tomorrow, Clinton writes of her suburban, middle-class Chicago upbringing. Her mother, Dorothy, was a saint; her father, Hugh, a fiscally tight-fisted taskmaster. [Read, "psycho"]
If Hillary or one of her brothers left the cap off the toothpaste, for instance, her father would throw the cap out the window and make the children search for it, "even in the snow." This was his way of "reminding us not to waste anything." She writes that "to this day, I put uneaten olives back in the jar, wrap up the tiniest pieces of cheese and feel guilty when I throw anything away."
The underlying presumption is that we care about every facet of Hillary Clinton: her childhood, education, romance, political life, family, future, delights, disappointments. ...
Near the end, she plots her run for the U.S. Senate. On February 12, 1999, Clinton meets with Harold Ickes, an old friend and political adviser, to ask his advice about the New York terrain. This was the same day that the Senate was voting on her husband's impeachment.
The book ends as the Clintons are leaving the White House. She is dancing with the White House butler. "My husband cuts in," she writes, "taking me in his arms as we waltzed together down the long hall.
"Then I said goodbye to the house where I had spent eight years living history." [Blecchh]
Why wasn't she taught how to hold a writing instrument? My teachers would have whopped me upside the head with this grip.
These people are slap-dab nutz.
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