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Hillary Clinton: Who is she?

By Barbara Ehrenreich

One theory, which functions as a kind of cargo cult among some American liberals, is that behind the bland, smiling, exterior and the thick gauze of platitudes, crouches a fiery liberal feminist, ready, when she has finally amassed enough power–say in her second term as President–to spring forth and save the world.

If Carl Bernstein’s exhausting 600-page biography, A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton, accomplishes anything, it should be to euthanize this touching hope. Hillary Rodham Clinton was always a moderate, given to centrist, technocratic. In her lifetime, she has glided effortlessly from one side to another on key issues–the death penalty, for example, or entitlements for poor women and children–all the while maintaining the self-righteousness granted, supposedly, by her Methodist God.

In Bernstein’s account the mystery of Hillary is largely explained by her fraught relationship with Bill. She was pretty enough, but an awkward, wonky, young woman; he was a brilliant, ambitious, sexually magnetic stud; and in following him to Arkansas she seemed to have thrown her future as, say, a high-profile Washington public interest lawyer. “My friends and family thought I had lost my mind,” Bernstein quotes her as saying. He insists that theirs is, or sometimes was, a deep connection–sexual, intellectual and committed to their joint political “journey.”

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Rudy Giuliani Rips Bill & Hillary’s ‘Decade of Denial’ on Terrorism

Rudy Giuliani charged yesterday that Bill Clinton was soft on terrorism when he was president, calling his tenure “the decade of denial.”

The Republican White House hopeful and former mayor warned that Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Democratic presidential candidates want to repeat the ex-chief executive’s mistakes of the 1990s.

Giuliani went after Bubba during a speech at religious broadcaster Pat Robertson’s Regent University in Virginia Beach and later while addressing the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, D.C.

He said Clinton didn’t aggressively respond to the 1993 World Trade Center attack, or to subsequent atrocities by Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda before 9/11. Giuliani singled out the bombings of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996 and the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000.

“The United States government - then President Clinton - did not respond,” Giuliani said. “Bin Laden declared war on us. We didn’t hear it.”

Giuliani said that calls by the Democratic presidential candidates to withdraw from Iraq will embolden terrorists.

“I think they are in denial. They can’t face this threat. They couldn’t in the 1990s,” Giuliani said.

Then, while addressing the Jewish group at B’nai Israel Congregation in Rockville, Md., Giuliani called Bill Clinton’s tenure “the decade of denial.”

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Are Bill and Hillary just like the Sopranos? The Hillary-Carmela Connection

Did Hillary Clinton inadvertently underscore the ambivalence felt by some Americans over her role in her husband’s scandals in a humorous campaign ad last week? Margaret Carlson believes that Hillary made a mistake in playing the Carmela role in her Sopranos spoof, and that voters may see her in a similar light to Edie Falco’s compromised and enabling wife:

The ad touches close to the mother lode of Hillary’s vulnerability among some women. When you ask them why they don’t like her, they say it’s because they don’t understand why she makes goo-goo eyes at a guy who broke her heart multiple times and humiliated her daughter. After that, pretending to be a teenager in love makes them wonder what else she might be faking.

The Carmela-Hillary juxtaposition has been made before by others, and not in Hillary’s favor. For staying with a repeat philanderer, Carmela got to live in a McMansion, wear expensive jewelry and wield derivative power as Queen Bee of the mob families. Hillary got to be first lady with a good shot at the White House.

If Hillary’s hoping we’ll be kinder to her than Chase was to Carmela, it’s hard to see why she would tempt the comparison herself. The only possible rationale is that every time voters are reminded how bad Bill is, her numbers go up. She might not be the senator from New York were it not for Monica Lewinsky.

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Hillary Slammed! Barack Obama Says Hillary Not Qualified To Be President - Only Bill

BY SCOTT FORNEK

Barack Obama says he has no problem with Hillary Rodham Clinton coming to Chicago to raise campaign cash — even if her formal dinner Monday night was expected to raise seven times as much as his cocktail party earlier in the evening.

But the South Side Democrat wasn’t going to let anyone suggest the senator and former first lady was more qualified to hit the ground running as president than he is.

“The only person who would probably be prepared to be our president on Day 1 would be Bill Clinton — not Hillary Clinton,” Obama said when asked about unnamed Clinton backers questioning Obama’s experience.

“I think that we’re all very qualified for the job,” the freshman senator said. “The question is who can inspire the nation to get us past the politics that have bogged us down in the past. That was true, by the way, in the ’90s as well as more recently.”

It was an obvious dig at the political divisions of the Clinton years.

Clinton’s campaign officials declined to respond.

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Pillorying Hillary: More voters dislike Hillary Clinton than any other. Will that stop her winning the presidency?

“You and everyone you know probably despise Hillary Clinton. There’s almost nothing about her that appeals to you. You think she stayed in her marriage because she was hungry for unelected power, and that disgusts you.” And so on. The quote is from Can She Be Stopped?, a polemic by John Podhoretz, a conservative columnist. It says something about the polarisation of American life that an author can assume not only that his readers hate Hillary (a fair bet, given the book’s title and scary cover photo) but also that they don’t know anyone who doesn’t. Mrs Clinton would doubtless dismiss Mr Podhoretz as part of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. But he is not alone in disliking her. Polls suggest that between 40% and 50% of Americans have an unfavourable view of the junior senator from New York. They are a vast obstacle to Mrs Clinton’s presidential ambitions.

Why do people detest her? Let Lexington count the ways. First, and most obviously, conservatives cannot stand her. They see her, as Bay Buchanan (Pat’s sister) put it in another recent Hillary-bashing book, as an “ardent feminist, anti-war activist and student radical” who “did not leave her passion for all things liberal behind on the campuses of Wellesley and Yale”. The Hillary of conservative demonology is practically a socialist. (Well, she did try to put the government in charge of health care.) She is anti-family. (She once wrote an essay about children’s rights which few have read but many believe argues that children should be allowed to sue their parents. It does not.) She is a standard-bearer for the counter-culture of the 1960s. (As a student, she gave a speech endorsing ‘freedom from the burden of an inauthentic reality’ and ‘more immediate, ecstatic and penetrating modes of living’.) And she thinks abortion should be legal.

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