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This is a useful review of all the reasons why Hillary Clinton should never be elected President of the United States. The book's most striking feature is the sense of wonder it arouses in any reader who lived during the presidency of Bill Clinton. There were so many scandals, so many "bimbo eruptions," so many nasty incidents, that one can't even remember them all. But the author brings the whole picture back with admirable efficiency. Hillary is clearly bright and analytical. Lots of unpleasant people occupy positions of power in our country. What is chilling about Hillary Clinton is her utter ruthlessness in dealing with both friend and foe. The supreme irony is that she got her political start in Watergate. Even her associates there accused her of arrogance, deceit and disregard for the Constitution and its safeguards. Later, when Hillary left her post as director of the Legal Services Corporation, a cash cow for left-wing causes, the General Accounting Office issued a report stating that many people associated with the organization during Hillary's tenure were "uniquely reprehensible." The most chilling incident in the book is the Juanita Broderick story. After Bill assaulted Broderick, Hillary saw to it that she, Bill and Broderick were brought together at a party at the governor's mansion. It was there that Hillary took Juanita aside, grabbed her hand and made it clear that she had better keep her mouth shut - or else. Hillary developed special techniques to serve as the chief destroyer of the innumerable women coming out of the woodwork to accuse her husband. Dick Morris, who spent several years in close contact with the Clintons, stated that Hillary built up a "secret police" to conduct a "systematic campaign to intimidate, frighten, threaten, discredit and punish innocent Americans whose only misdeed was to tell the truth." Hillary made sure that one of her Yale Law classmates was put in charge of the IRS during the early years of the Clinton presidency. Coincidentally, Paula Jones and many conservative organizations were audited during this period. Hillary also oversaw the use in the 1996 campaign of illegally obtained FBI files on thousands of Americans. During the most trying times of her husband's presidency, it was Hillary who jumped out of character to urge bombings in the Balkans and the firing of missiles at tents in the Middle East. One particularly outrageous episode was Hillary's urging of pardons for Puerto Rican terrorists in New York to gain ethnic support for her senatorial bid - pardons the terrorists hadn't requested, and only accepted after much urging from the White House! The book serves up a lot of delicious tidbits, like the fact that while Jesse Jackson was brought in as a spiritual counselor during the Lewinsky crisis, he was in the middle of an affair with a young staffer. (William Morrow, 2004, 269 pps, $25.95) |
These assets, however, are more than counterbalanced by a long list of liabilities. She is nasty, foul-mouthed, dishonest, disloyal, and above all, voraciously hungry for power.
