HI everyone. First, sorry for the seriously light blogging this weekend (I do see, however that Maynard was up late and working :) I has just incredibly jammed.
Just the regular reminder that I will be on Fox this morning at about 10:20am ET (7:20am PT). It looks like the topic will be Carl Bernstein’s new book about Hillary Clinton. Interestingly, Bernstein is a liberal (i.e. leftist) Democrat who was and is against the war in Iraq, and his book is being touted as exposing how HIllary has misrepresented both her political and personal past. I have a hard time believing, however, that this is the crux of the book. Even in discussing her lack of character, I am convinced his endpoint is to declare, even with all their faults, the Clintons (both of them) are best for the White House.
Watergate reporter demolishes Hillary’s career story
Drawing on a trove of private papers from Hillary Clinton’s best friend, the legendary Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein is to publish a hard-hitting and intimate portrait of the 2008 presidential candidate, which will reveal a number of “discrepancies” in her official story.
Bernstein, who was played by Dustin Hoffman in the film All the President’s Men, has spent eight years researching the unauthorised [Yeah, right, yet has access to her closest friends and confidants. And started at the beginning of the Bush administration and the start of her senate career. Gee, I wonder why?--ed.] 640-page biography, A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
“Bernstein reaches conclusions that stand in opposition to what Senator Clinton has said in the past and has written in the past,” said Paul Bogaards, a spokesman for Knopf, which publishes the book on June 19.
Bernstein is known as a liberal Democrat who fiercely opposes the war in Iraq and is likely to be critical of Clinton’s Senate vote to authorise the war. His marriage to Nora Ephron, the screen-writer, broke up when he had an affair with Baroness Jay, the daughter of former prime minister James Callaghan. [Another indication that he's a Hillary supporter...If only his wife had been more like her and not left her man.-ed.]
For years Bernstein suffered from writer’s block, but Knopf is promoting his biography as a triumphant return to form. Publisher Sonny Mehta said his portrait would “show us, for the first time, the true trajectory of Hillary Clinton’s life and career”. It will be published simultaneously in Britain by Hutchinson.
According to the publishers, it will cover everything from Clinton’s “complex relationship with her disciplinarian father” to “her courtship with Bill Clinton and the amazing dynamic of their marriage, during the most trying of circumstances”.
Keep in mind, Hillary cooperated with this book from the beginning, and probably needed a way for her to be in control of negative information. Bernstein gives her that avenue.
Couching this book as a hit piece on Hillary is the only way for it to get attention. The announcement of a love letter written by and published by supporters isn’t exactly news, is it?
Glad you’re back, Tammy.
Tammy observes the Bernstein is generally supportive of Hillary’s cause, and questions whether his book will damage her as the article suggests it will. It would be surprising if Bernstein did a hit job on Hillary; however that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily a puff piece either. Setting that aside, I’ll note that Hillary draws some strong negative numbers. She seems to just rub a lot of us the wrong way. Bernstein’s title, “A Woman in Charge”, reminds me of this. No, I don’t want a woman in charge, not because I’m misogynistic, but because the slogan is just another example of divisive pandering. Margaret Thatcher, for example, didn’t promote herself as a woman; she was a leader. To the extent that Thatcher was divisive, it was because her political opposition opportunistically spun her to be a controversial figure. Sure, all political figures have enemies, but for some the enemies are merely incidental, whereas others can’t gain traction without an enemy to bash. Think of the various slogans we’ve heard from left-of-center in the recent era. “There are two Americas,” or “I will fight for you,” or “I feel your pain.” These slogans implicitly reinforce the sense of individual helplessness and victimization. To the extent they bring us together, it’s in an ugly mob-gathering way. That’s what I think of when I hear that Hillary wants to be president so we can have “a woman in charge”. How about an American in charge? So on the face of it, I see Bernstein’s book adding to Hillary’s negative.
For me the “amazing dynamic of their marriage” disqualifies Hillary from ever becoming President. This is an aspect the leftwing types will never discuss. Hillary has been abused by Bill throughout their “marriage” and she has accepted that lifestyle as a matter of choice. That is her right to live under that type of abuse however I don’t believe someone who willingly submits to that type of abuse should be President. The leftwing media portrays her as strong and “in charge” yet after numerous affairs including sex in the Oval Office she will not stand up to Bill. How in the hell will she be able to stand up to the nutjobs in Iran and N. Korea when she is incapable of standing up to the serial sexual predator she is married to? The amazing dynamic of their marraige is a history of abuse and her unwillingless to confront it. It’s a sick and perverted dynamic and one that I don’t want anything to do with.
If Hillary is willing to condone Bill’s behavior, and to vehemently lie to the American people about it (she at first ruthlessly defended him, then denied knowing anything about it), what shameless acts is she capable of condoning while in office?