Bill Safire was the NY Times’s house conservative. He only went after the clintons maybe once a year. The rest of the time he tended to change the subject, or write about grammar, so as not to offend anyone too much.
This column was his most memorable. For once, he really let himself go.
Especially that opening bit about hillary being a “congenital liar.”
Yep. This column came out right as I was starting to pay attention to politics. I think Bill did a fantastic job with this one; it’s too bad it’s the only one that will be long remembered. He was a fantastic writer.