Posted on 06/22/2005 3:24:12 PM PDT by ambrose
Hillary branded liar and a lesbian
Roland Watson, Washington
June 23, 2005
HILLARY Clinton has denounced a lurid new book that brands her a serial liar and which Republicans hope will derail her White House ambitions.
The book directly challenges Senator Clinton's account of the Monica Lewinsky affair and is littered with claims about the former first lady's relationship with her husband, her sexuality and her ruthless quest for the Oval Office. Senator Clinton's officials said the book, published yesterday, was "full of blatant and vicious fabrications, contrived by someone who writes trash for cash".
The book is by Edward Klein, formerly a senior journalist with Newsweek and The New York Times, who makes no secret of his dislike for the Clintons.
It is already being embraced by conservatives mobilising against the New York senator's seemingly inevitable run for the presidency in 2008.
The provocatively titled book - The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It and How Far She'll Go to Become President - provides Democrats with a foretaste of the scrutiny, muck-raking or otherwise, to which Senator Clinton will be subjected if she wins the party's nomination.
Klein asserts that she knew for two years that her husband was having an affair with Ms Lewinsky, the intern whose liaisons with Mr Clinton led to his impeachment.
Senator Clinton has insisted that her husband told her shortly before he confessed to the Starr investigation.
"I could hardly breathe," she wrote in her autobiography. "Gulping for air, I started crying and yelling at him."
Her version is not credible, writes Klein. Senator Clinton had deployed a legion of loyal aides in the White House "to keep an eye on her sex-addicted husband", according to the author. He quotes a former White House aide as saying that "everyone", including the Secret Service and Senator Clinton, knew about Ms Lewinsky.
At the time, she described the pursuit of her husband and his eventual impeachment over the affair as the result of a "vast right-wing conspiracy".
Klein's unsubstantiated theory is that an admission by Senator Clinton that she knew of her husband's escapades would have confirmed the worst suspicions "that her marriage was a political arrangement rather than a true love match".
More salacious claims rest on flimsier foundations. Klein uses an anonymous source to claim that the Clintons' daughter, Chelsea, was conceived shortly after Mr Clinton told a late-night group of fellow holidaymakers in Bermuda that he was going to "rape" his wife.
The book alleges that Mr Clinton, flush with millions from his blockbuster biography last year, conducted an affair with a "stunning" divorcee in her early 40s who lived near the Clintons in New York.
Klein also resurrects ancient rumours about Senator Clinton's sexuality. Without substantiation, he relates suspicions in Arkansas that she was a lesbian or "asexual".
A broader theme, certain to crop up repeatedly, is that Senator Clinton is changing her formerly left-wing spots to try to occupy the centre ground.
Klein calls himself an independent with no political axe to grind. "I didn't go into this book ... with an agenda, " he says, but also states: "As far as I'm concerned, we've already had the Clinton presidency for its full constitutional eight years.
"I do not want to see her become president of the United States. I think that would be a dangerous thing; to have another darkly paranoid president like Richard Nixon, who has an enemies list and is inclined to do illegal things."
"Hmmm. I wonder what that says about everyone who would vote for her. "
That New Yorkers are stupid and gullible?
Us Southerners have known this for years.
"A broader theme, certain to crop up repeatedly, is that Senator Clinton is changing her formerly left-wing spots to try to occupy the centre ground."
You Aussies sure spell "center" strangely, but this statement is unequivocally TRUE.
I don't care about Hil's sex life or whether she is asexual or whatever, she should not be president because she is a socialist and a traitor who should be behind bars, along with her ex-co-president,Bil.
Hillary a liar and a lesbian? Doesn't this book contain anything new?
I would not be at all surprised if she were a switch hitter or even a lesbian. Look at where she went to school for undergrad.
Any chance she'll divorce Bill and marry Nancy Pelosi?
Amen. In fact, her sex life is something that I NEVER want to know about. Hearing all about willie's was repugnant enough and we sure don't need to be drug through that pit again. This is just one reason this woman will n ever be president. The country does not want to live all that scandal, dalliance, trash all over again.
The Rose law firm files and the billing records were gathered up by Vince Foster and Web Hubbell in Little Rock.
God forbid that she becomes president, but, if she did, it would be so funny if she divorced Bill before taking office. He wants back in so bad and denying him back in would be so funny.
And why they fired the staff of the WH travel office and put in their own cronies staff.
I don't like this book. It's almost as if Hillary paid this Klein guy to write a sloppily researched, easily refuted, over-the-top screed so that she could play the victim card all the way to Pennsyvania Ave.
"Is there anything of substance in this book? If not, I have my suspicions."
Agreed. It sounds alot like that Kittey Kelly (or whatever that old skank's name is) book alleging that Bush is a coke user, alcoholic, homosexual, etc.
Besides, why would anyone pay money to confirm the fact that Hillary Clinton is yet-another in a long line of lying, unethical politicians? 8 years should've taught everyone that.
Could you define this term?
Could you define this term?
Hate to break the news to you, but most voters belong to some political party in this Country. What's your point?
"religoncons"???
the "restofuscons"????
Yeesh, those where just awful, keep your day job.
It's not religious people who are focused on sex, its just people (religious or otherwise). Sex sells and, well, missing files don't.
PS. The Bible doesn't say money is the root of all evil.
Her said on Holmes that he is an independent.
They voted for the Oval Office blow job king and cigar stuffer.
Enuff said....
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