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- I had taken both the Arkansas and the Washington, D.C., bar exams during the summer, but my heart was pulling me toward Arkansas. When I learned that I had passed in Arkansas but failed in D.C., I thought that maybe my test scores were telling me something.
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hillary clinton
Living History
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et's get real. Missus clinton's bar exam scores were about her brain, not her heart (the supposititiousness of each notwithstanding).
"Tell It Early, Tell It Yourself"
On page 64 of her revisionist tome, Living History, "the smartest woman in the world" buried her intellectual mediocrity in maudlin sentimentality; she omitted it altogether from the audiobook edition, a decision likely based on demographics--the audiobook version is generally favored by the less educated, the less scrutinizing and the less anti-clinton. Did she think no one would notice? (The clintons' fundamental error: They are too arrogant and dim-witted to understand that the demagogic process in this fiberoptic age isn't about counting spun heads; it's about not discounting circumambient brains.)
CLINTON BEHIND BARS
The Arkansas bar exam pass rate is 85%. Washington D.C.'s is 61%. (Summer 2001, first time takers.) Arkansas is similarly less competitive in the Rhodes Scholarship competition; like the state bar exams, the scholarship process qualifies its candidates regionally. Hence, in the Fall of 1968, Oxford was served up the small 'man' from Hot Springs, likely the only Rhodie whose "speciality" was rape. (Clinton's Oxford victim was 19-year-old Brit, Eileen Wellstone.) Not quite the sport Cecil Rhodes had in mind, I suspect.)
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- "My two cents' worth--and I think it is the two cents' worth of everybody who worked for the Clinton Administration health care reform effort of 1993-1994--is that Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White House for the rest of her life. Heading up health-care reform was the only major administrative job she has ever tried to do. And she was a complete flop at it. She had neither the grasp of policy substance, the managerial skills, nor the political smarts to do the job she was then given. And she wasn't smart enough to realize that she was in over her head and had to get out of the Health Care Czar role quickly.... there is no reason to think that she would be anything but an abysmal president.
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J. Bradford DeLong
professor of economics, Berkeley
clinton Administration veteran
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