(Former Congresswoman Elizabeth )Holtzman, now an attorney in private practice, says she's curious to know what Clinton has to say about those early days when Holtzman didn't even know the recent law school grad's name. "I was on the House Judiciary Committee, and Hillary was on our staff during the impeachment [proceedings against] ... Richard Nixon. So she might talk about what it must have been like during the first major impeachment of the 20th century, and then what it was like to be on the other end," says Holtzman. Bill Clinton was impeached in 1999. (He was not convicted.)
I hadn't thought of that. How many people are that involved in two different sides of an impeachment?
(Janeane) Garofalo thinks the public doesn't have to know what Hillary really thinks of Bill: "No, no, no. That's her business. It's not our concern.... It's the type of thing that changes the subject" from Hillary's achievements, including "standing up to the right-wing slanderous onslaught."
Everything is personal. Hillary wants you to remember that she was married to a popular President, but she doesn't want to discuss any of the illegal or immoral activity that went on there. What slanderous onslaught did Hillary stand up to? Bill Clinton committed perjury, independent of anyone attacking or going after him. Her defense of his infidelity sent the message that she would rather be in power than have a faithful husband. In short, other than her personal attachment to Bill, she has the failed Health Care Plan to call an achievement. Her whole career is based on being someone's wife, so it might not be a bad idea to discuss how that went.
On the other hand, author and cultural critic Camille Paglia, a Democrat "bitterly disillusioned" by the Clintons, calls Sen. Clinton "a snobbish elitist" who will "never be president" and adds, "I don't care about her sado-masochistic marriage. Anyone who stays married to an infantile, drooling, serial groper deserves what she gets." Paglia, currently completing a book on poetry, further calls Sen. Clinton "dishonest, manipulative and mercenary."
Hillary Clinton's achievements are really the emperor’s new clothes. Camile Paglia has no trouble seeing right through the nonsense. George W. Bush and Al Gore had famous fathers, but they actually held public office in an executive capacity. Other than two years in the Senate, what has Hillary Clinton offered that makes her Presidential? She’s shown to have a Machavellian thirst for power and little more.
Pat Shroeder, Judith Reagan and Gerry Ferraro also weigh in.
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