Not Everybody Loves Bill and Hillary in the Hamptons

August 8, 2007

By George Gurely

For the past several summers, former United States President Bill Clinton and current U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton have made a salty pilgrimage to the Hamptons, where they speak to their supporters, breathe the same air as they do, get their picture taken with them, maybe eat banana pancakes with them and depart with fat happy sacks of cash.

Bill and Hillary Clinton

Not everyone out there is thrilled.

“I don’t know if it’s bad for the country, but as far as I concerned, it’s not a good thing,” said John McEnroe Sr. The father of the tennis champion was wearing a sharp white jacket at a benefit under a tent for Southampton Hospital last Saturday, which was attended by an older, silver-haired, moneyed crowd. While the Clintons were not at the party, they were indeed somewhere on the East End of Long Island and their presence was being felt.

“I’m just not a fan of Hillary and I’m not going to become one,” said Mr. McEnroe.

Does he think Mr. Clinton has been faithful?

“Oh, God no,” said his wife, Kay.

“Absolutely not,” agreed Mr. McEnroe, but added that another sex scandal wouldn’t necessarily hurt the country. “We got through the other one pretty well. And I think we’d get through the next one. But we know he’s had some situations; we know some people who live up where they live. I’m not going into the names. But I have no question that he’s had another dalliance or two.”

“We’ve had a house out here for seven years,” Mr. McEnroe continued. “They can come here anytime they want and raise as much money as they possibly can. I don’t blame them; I would do it, too. There’s more money out here than there is almost anywhere else. Why wouldn’t they come and get the money?”

So what’s wrong with the Clintons?

“They’re too liberal as far as I’m concerned, and they’re Democrats,” he said. “Other than that, there’s nothing wrong with them. It’s very difficult to explain, I just find them almost … offensive.”

The night before at McKendry’s Pub in Amagansett, Wolf Reiter was expressing a similar sentiment. “If Hillary Clinton is elected, I will leave the country,” he said.

“I’m sort of jesting,” continued Mr. Reiter, owner of the Old Stone Market and a Hamptons resident since 1968. He said he was pro-choice, wants no capital gains tax, and that there wasn’t anything wrong with the Clintons raising dough from rich people. He said he had some questions about Mrs. Clinton, however.

“She is a typical hypocrite, because she’s against charter schools, and she sent her kid to private school,” he said. “They don’t care about poor kids and ghetto kids getting an education. All these rich liberals out here are such hypocrites: All of a sudden they come out here, they’re entitled, they complain about everything, about their neighbors building a tennis court or swimming pool. They don’t want Mexicans living next to them or going to the schools. But who’s going to wash their dishes and cook their food? ”

Would Mr. Reiter feel safe with Mrs. Clinton as commander in chief?

“She’d be good on foreign policy. She’d be such a bitch that other countries would respect us.”

Did he think the Clintons still have sex?

“Only if he’s tied down.”

Did he think Bill is being faithful?

“Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Oh, come on! Did you hear what he asked me?”

He repeated the question and Greg the bartender roared, too.

Mr. Reiter wasn’t worried about another sex scandal: “I think Bill has enough experience that he’s not going to embarrass her. You know, we all have so much to be grateful for—he changed the definition of sex. A blow job is not sex. When I grew up, a blow job was sex. Now it’s not sex!”

The next day, under the V.I.P. tent at a Mercedes-Benz polo event in Bridgehampton, I met an old-timer who said he didn’t feel good about Mrs. Clinton in the White House, because he was simply too old to leave the country. Then he stood up to sing the national anthem.

“I’ll tell you, that Bill Clinton—I would get my kneepads out any day, any day,” said Joan Jedell, the 50-ish editor and publisher of Hampton Sheet magazine. She was wearing a blue straw hat and a gauzy white dress that showed a lot of cleavage. “I’ve been to events with him—very small cocktail parties at people’s homes—and taking a picture with him, he pulls you towards him,” she said. “It’s just his way. So if you were in front of him, and he’s talking to you—I could see that in a second, and I’m pretty hard to get. My kneepads are ready.”

What about Mrs. Clinton?

“You know what, Hillary’s got the last word in that relationship. She’s a smart lady. She wasn’t going to throw everything away—she used it.”

Two ladies wearing hats were walking toward the V.I.P. tent. Elise Prado said she was a real estate agent who was born and raised in Montauk; Lindsay Gardner was her personal secretary.

How would they feel about Mrs. Clinton being back in the White House?

“I like it,” said Ms. Prado. “Isn’t that sad? Even though I’m a Republican.”

Did she mind the Clintons in the Hamptons?

“That, I hate. They block the roads. It turns me off. They’re out for campaign money. They’re coming out here with their hand out—hello? Don’t they know enough people that they can just go to, to raise money?”

Both women said they’d feel less safe with Mrs. Clinton as president

“I think it would be great to have a woman in the White House, but I don’t think she’s prepared to do that job,” said Ms. Prado. “She does have experience, but I think she would probably lose focus. I would like to see a woman in the White House. But the first one? I have a feeling she might blow it.”

Did she think Mr. Clinton has been faithful lately?

“Oh, probably not; who cares? It doesn’t bother me. As a matter of fact, when he was in office, I think it was a great distraction—so he could do his job.”

“That’s human nature,” said Ms. Gardner. “I thought it was hilarious. It was like, ‘Oh my God, the person who runs this country is human.’”

Could there be another sex scandal?

“It’ll give us something to talk about apart from this crazy war.”

Next I met Andrew Catapano, a 51-year-old Southampton resident in the construction business.

“I just don’t feel that Hillary has a handle on the issues,” he said. “I’m concerned about health care. We’re going to become a socialist country. I feel the government is taking too big of a part in our private lives, and I think with her there, it’s going to more laws, more bureaucracies.”

Did he think Mr. Clinton has been faithful?

“Put it this way, I think he’s on better behavior. He’s a little more discreet about it. And there’s nothing wrong with that.”

Did he think the Clintons were still having sex?

“No.”

Back over at the Southampton Hospital benefit, two old-timers were having a chat in the corner. Buzz Schwenk was once chairman of the Suffolk County Republican committee, which gave President Nixon the largest plurality of any county in the U.S. in the ’68 election. He said he thought the country was paying a price because of the Bush family and that a Clinton dynasty would be a bad move.

“I would vote for Obama. I would vote for Rudy Giuliani,” he said.

“I’d vote for Rudy,” said his pal, Bill Frankenbach, the Southampton town Republican chairman from 1972 to 1974.

Mr. Schwenk said he hoped that whoever was elected would secure peace between Palestine and Israel. “Until somebody goes to work on that, there will not be peace in this world,” he said.

He added that he thought there would be some advantages of having Mr. Clinton back in the White House. “He would be her emissary worldwide,” he said. “It may be not the worst thing that could happen. You got to give the devil his due—he did not do a bad job as president.”

Could Mr. Frankenbach imagine another bimbo eruption?

“Oh yeah. What gets me is seeing them together smiling at all these fund-raisers. She’s holding hands and they’re smiling and he’s cheating on her all the way. By the way—check out the hat on that lady.”

Ted Kruckel, a natty public relations man, was having a smoke outside the tent.

“I’m not so sure that I’m supporting Hillary,” he said. “She has not shown backbone in this campaign. She’s really been an equivocator. ”

Mr. Kruckel said he had given “the max” to her senatorial campaign and had served on “every” Hillary Clinton committee but might “go Obama” this time.

What’s his message to Mrs. Clinton?

“Get real. Get real.”

Bob Colacello, the Vanity Fair writer and biographer of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, appeared with some friends. “Why are you ruining my evening?” he asked. “You want me to think about the Clintons in the White House? I wish the Clintons had gone back to Arkansas and never come to New York in the first place.”

Source: New York Observer

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