Hillary’s Delta Blues
March 31, 2008
Hillary Clinton blames predatory subprime mortgage lenders for creating the housing mortgage crisis. She should know. Her campaign manager sat on the board of one.
Sen. Clinton has spent a considerable amount of campaign time bashing the Bush administration's handling of the subprime lending crisis. She paints a picture of economic disaster as financial wolves huff and puff to repossess everybody's home, though 96% of mortgagees have been making their payments on time.
Clinton campaign head made $200,000 with subprime lender
March 31, 2008
By Glenn Thrush
Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign manager, Maggie Williams, earned about $200,000 on the board of a Long Island subprime lender that charged prepayment penalties - a practice that Clinton, a critic of the subprime industry, now seeks to eliminate.
Hillary’s big adventure
March 31, 2008
By Mindy Belz
Hillary Clinton may be surprised to learn that other women braved the Tuzla Air Base tarmac in 1996. I did—and I was four months pregnant.
Let the record show that both the Democratic presidential candidate and this editor felt comfortable enough in the spring of 1996 to within two weeks of one another bring our daughters to the same war zone.
Is Hillary Clinton Mentally Ill?
March 31, 2008
By Joan Swirsky
Newspaper articles and TV specials have made most people familiar with the psychiatric disorder called Munchausen-By-Proxy, in which a person (usually a woman) or a parent (usually the mother) makes herself or her child sick – by poison, overmedication, smothering, etc. – and then reports the dire symptoms to authorities, thereby garnering the attention and sympathy she craves, as well as heroine status for “saving” herself or her child.
When this bizarre pattern of behavior is observed over time – by family members, friends, psychiatric professionals – and they confront her with evidence of her pathological behavior, she invariably has one response: They are lying! Sound familiar?
I Get Knocked Down, But I Get Up Again…
March 31, 2008
By John Podhoretz
Everyone has a storyline in which she plays the starring role, and in which she is the heroine. What is little noted about Hillary Clinton’s increasingly aggressive determination to stay in the Democratic race come what may is that she believes she is doing something heroic. Last week, Bill said he was “so proud” of her because they keep coming at her and she keeps on going. This is very reminiscent of the story John Harris tells in his book The Survivor, as recounted by Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times:
