The Clintons Miss Their Stooge

The Clintons Miss Their Stooge
The New York Times doesn't like the book written by Hillary's three ghost writers. The reviewer sees it for what it was and frankly, for what most of us knew it would be. Howell Raines never would have permitted criticism of the Clintons to sully the pages of the Times when he was running the show. No wonder Bill Clinton tried so hard to save his job.

Two leitmotifs run through Hillary Rodham Clinton's wildly hyped new memoir, "Living History." One has to do with her changing hairstyles, which are discussed in detail at least a half dozen times, as they morphed with Madonna-like frequency from long to short, from frizzy to hair-banded to carefully coiffed.
The other has to do with Mrs. Clinton's penchant for blaming enemies, from political opponents to a "vast right-wing conspiracy," for her and her husband's failures and travails.
The first underscores the chameleonlike quality she's always shared with her husband, the belief, as he once put it, that character "is a journey, not a destination." The second underscores both the highly partisan atmosphere of the 1990's and the Clintons' reluctance to assume full responsibility for their own mistakes and evasions.

For this reason, I have no plans to buy or read the book. If I'm going to be lied to, the liar has to do it for free and make it brief. I value both my money and my time.

And, the reviewer sees understands that Hillary isn't satisfied with the $8 million she's being paid for this book. The point of this book is the political rehabilitation of her last name so that she may satisfy her insatiable political ambitions.

She is every bit as greedy for a place in history books as her husband is, she just doesn't talk about it all the time.

... "Living History," which for all its roller-coaster drama — all the political scandals, marital woes and startling comebacks and reinventions — radiates the faintly stale air (particularly unnerving in the audio versions of the memoir) of being the carefully rehearsed and elided statements of a professional pol intent on turning a book tour into the first leg of another campaign.