Posted on 12/09/2007 12:47:13 PM PST by america4vr
In July 2000, Hillary Clinton stood on a stage at the University of Arkansas and struggled to keep her composure. Her voice was unusually soft that day, her words seemingly unfiltered.
“Diane, you were the awesomest,” Mrs. Clinton said, referring to Diane Blair, a political science professor whose eulogy she was giving. “You were the best person that one could have as a friend.”
Mrs. Blair, who died at 61, was described as the sister Mrs. Clinton had always wanted. She practically moved into the White House in 1993 to ease Mrs. Clinton’s transition to Washington, and returned at the end, during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. She sent Mrs. Clinton recipes (though the first lady did not cook), bird-watching manuals (though she cared little for birds), vitamins ( with a note signed “Nurse Diane Fuzzy Wuzzy”) and cards.
“Whenever you have trouble coping, just think of Snow White,” one note said. “She had to live with seven men.”
The crowd laughed when Mrs. Clinton read that at the memorial service, and she smiled along. Her eyes stayed dry, another triumph of her self-possession. Still, her face was puffy and her jaw slightly clenched, as if any breach of emotion could start a deluge.
That was a glimpse of a “softer” Hillary Clinton, billed as the “real Hillary” by legions of loyalists, the person so often encased in armor.
Mrs. Clinton’s surrogates lament that the engaging, generous and vulnerable woman on the stage would seem alien to many Americans.
Perhaps more than any other candidate, Mrs. Clinton faces an unusual challenge in her quest for the presidency. After a political lifetime of public battles, suspicions and humiliations, she must prove she is not too hardened to inspire, or too wary to truly lead.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Typical love letter to Hillary From the New York Times.
The Fraudulent Senator: A Seven Part Series
http://www.newmediajournal.us/daily_columns/the_fraudulent_senator.htm
THE REAL HILLARY CLINTON: Episode #3
She Throws Coffee in Marine's Face
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/811070/posts
THE REAL HILLARY CLINTON: Episodes 1-12
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/814539/posts
Oh please. How about "or too corrupt".
The fawning is just warming up.
Huh.
Hillary was best friends with a man hater.
Who'd have thunk?
“Diane, you were the awesomest”
Is awesomest even a word?
My spell check has placed a red line underneath it.....
Using that presidential vocabulary...
THE REAL HILLARY CLINTON: Episode #3
She Throws Coffee in Marine's Face
And naturally, a puff piece on Rudy's shady business ties.
Will they never quit attacking her?
So, if this Diane womyn was the witch’s sister, did she die from Sudden-House-Impact Syndrome?
NYT gives Hillary a Lewinsky.....again!
And this is different from her usual demeanor how?
She died of cancer.
But this is what is important. UArk has her papers among which is a diary of her time with the Clintons on the campaign trail and supposedly it is frank and unvarnished and not very helpful to Hillary.
It isn’t available for reading yet but some are working on getting access.
You mean, UArk is SUPPOSEDELY IN POSESSION OF those papers, when last anyone checked.
Any Sandy Berger sightings, yet?
I read something about this a few months ago. Someone is trying to get access. Apparently the diary has been read and the word is it is unflattering.
Exactly..........those papers are long gone.
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