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The book Ms. Hillary won’t write

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Sometimes the choices we make, when we balance two conflicting values, passions or even ambitions we have make for the most interesting stories. Or maybe it’s balancing our passion with our ambition. And when some people face truly challenging choices, they often have the most amazing stories to tell.

Think Sophie’s Choice.

Ms. Hillary has such a story, but unless she tells it honestly, it will only interest her die-hard fans, other Democratic groupies and political junkies. If she told it honestly, it could be a book for the ages. Here we have a woman whose early writings, speeches and activism suggest a strong commitment to a leftist agenda. Here we have a voice for feminism. But, we also have a woman who despite her discipline and intelligence, had few natural political skills.

She attaches herself to a man who lacks some of her strengths (e.g., discipline), but has something she lacks, a powerful presence, a natural charisma and an instinct for politics. And by some accounts, Hillary Rodham really did fall (romantically) for Bill Clinton.

Their marriage, however, while politically advantageous to her, did not appear to be very emotionally fulfilling. He started straying sexually even before they exchanged their vows. He cheated on her even when they were in the White House. And when this became public, she stood by her man even though she had mocked that very notion on the campaign trail in 1992.

What if she told the true story of their romance, how she did love him despite his failure to control his sexual libido? What if she discussed what happened in 1998, when she first found out that her husband was carrying on with a woman just a few years older than their daughter? What did she really feel? What did she choose to stay with him after that latest public humiliation? Why would a woman whose ideas on gender come right out of the feminist movement let a man treat her the way her husband did?

In addressing these issues, she could talk about the choices women make, the choices she made, why she realized that, despite Bill’s failings, she understood that ending their marriage might compromise her own political viability. And why her political success mattered more than her personal fulfillment. Or maybe it was that political success brought her emotional fulfillment.

I highly doubt Mrs. Clinton will write this book. It would likely require her to say things which might end her political career — or expose her as having (yet again) deceived the American people in past public comments. In short, she won’t write the book because while it might make her appear more human, it would not further her politic career.

And for the Clintons, all is politics, with electoral success and power their Holy Grail, the quest into which they pour their all.

Comments

  1. On my YouTube account I uploaded the CBS story about Hillary’s trip

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbdI87Nm2R0

    Some idiot Democrat writes this:

    “This story is about persistence of memory. The Bosnia plane landing was ten years ago. A peson’s memory changes after ten years. Not completely but as you know if you go back to a place after ten years you might very well find that you forgot some things and that you will also see some things that you don’t remember. A person will remember dates and places but details fade sometimes or change in our memory.
    For CBS to say the memory should match the video tape is ludicrous. ”

    How fucking stupid are these people?

  3. Did anyone stop to think that perhaps Hillary forgot where she was under sniper fire? It may have happened regularly and there is certainly no reason the press would ever report a story of a First Lady being shot at. In fact, I believe that the press frequently travels with the First Lady, so if there was shooting, they would probably not remember either due to some reason that I can not think of right off the bat, but maybe something will come to me later. Anyway, can’t we move on? The country is in an economic depression, the Republican minority has jacked the price of oil way up and they refuse to let the Democrats investigate the causes and Haliburton has put something in the drinking water at the governor’s mansion in New York and all anyone wants to talk about is a little memory boo-boo on the part of the heir apparent. Geesch!

  5. I wonder why you think you (or anyone) is qualified to conjecture on someone’s personal relationship.  Let’s rack up their relationship, shall we?Bill & Hillary Clinton:  Married for nearly 33 years, the only marriage for each; their marriage has survived a number of unpleasant issues played out in public.
    A few notable Republicans:  Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole, Newt Gingrich:  All 3 have had multiple marriages.  All 3 to (some degree) have talked about the strength of marriage, commitment, etc, etc.  In the case of Gingrich he vociferously called for impeachment of Bill Clinton, based on the Monica Lewinsky affair.  At the exact same time, Mr. Gingrich was carrying on an extramarital affair with the woman who would become wife #3.  
    So, who exactly here is actually carrying out the ability to work at keeping their marriage together through tough times?  Seems to me it’s the Clintons who are extolling the virtues of staying together (something conservatives say all the time) while the conservatives are engaging "Do as I say, not as I do"