The Guild 6-5-2003 Need to vent about Hillary's book - This is the place

SFGate ^ | 6-4-2003 | CALVIN WOODWARD and SIOBHAN McDONOUGH

[BigWaveBetty]

Hillary Rodham Clinton shows her softer side in her new book, taking some responsibility for "botching" health care reform and not being sensitive enough to people who thought she should be a traditional first lady.

But the New York senator does not apologize for the causes she felt passionate about.

[Carolina]

Walters: "And you know what attracted her the most -- I'll give one thing away -- when she first met him? His hands."

Star Jones: "You said that, Joy."

Vieira: "Oh, big hands, big hands."

Behar: "Yeah, he's got a big head, too. I love that."

Jones: "Yeah, Joy likes his hands and his head."

Behar: "His hair and his head -- it's huge."

Vieira: "But he doesn't have big feet. I met him, he did not have big feet, but he had big hands. I thought that was interesting."

He's got a big head and big hands and she's got big ankles and a big heiny. Their movie could be called Big.

[Iowa Granny]

Their movie could be called Big.

LOL You, my dear, are on a great roll this week.

[Carolina]

Aw, shucks. Blame it on the Clintons. They inspire such cattiness to come out of me. LOLOL!

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Rich Galen's take on Shrillery's book [Hysterical!]

She's Baaaack!
By Rich Galen
CNSNews.com Commentary from Mullings.com
June 06, 2003

From the Wyoming Stock Grower's Association
Cody, Wyoming

* America's Victim is back. In all her victim-ness.

* Hillary Rodham Clinton Rodham's new book, Living History, has put her right back into glare of the spotlight of the History through which we all lived.

* The book, according to Amazon.com, is 576 pages long. Many of them will talk about the Arkansas days. One suspects some of them will talk about the successful and unsuccessful political campaigns. Still others will discuss the policy matters which interested The Hillary when she was First Lady.

* About eight people care about all of those put together, and I'm not one of them. And neither are you.

* The only pages we care about, are the ones in which she discusses Monica Lewinsky. According to the advance material reported by the Associated Press, Hillary didn't know nothin' about no interns, until Bill told her.

* "I could hardly breathe," she wrote in a passage quoted by the AP. "Gulping for air, I started crying and yelling at him, 'What do you mean? What are you saying? Why did you lie to me?' "

* Passing on the purple prose for a moment here, either The Hillary was the last person in the known universe to recognize that Bill had lied to her, to the staff, to his Cabinet and to the nation; OR, she was a witting co-conspirator - permitting the lie and permitting - ordering, really - others to go out and lie on his behalf to continue their personal battle against the "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy."

* It was not, after all, as if The Hillary had plucked Bill out of a monastery. There had been a few random, sporadic reports of what might have been termed incidents of inappropriate behavior over the previous couple of decades.

* Nevertheless, Hillary chose to ignore it all and help direct the attacks against Republicans generally, and Ken Starr in particular.

* Until the DNA evidence which forced Bill to have to testify before the grand jury during which he gave the world, "it depends on what your definition of 'is,' is."

* Like the guy who tried the "Who are you gonna believe; Me? Or your lyin' eyes" defense, that "definition of is" stuff could not have been the type of unambiguous denial of infidelity that a suspicious spouse would have - or should have - been looking for.

* Then what did she do? Did she, recovering her breath, demand Bill do the right thing, and apologize to the nation, to his staff, and to his Cabinet? No. She enlisted their daughter in a bit of stagecraft to walk hand-in-hand between her and Bill to the helicopter enroute to the "family healing" vacation on Martha's Vineyard. Then she helped continue the attacks against the people who, as we now know, SHE knew, had been telling the truth all along.

* Who are the most thrilled people in America about all this? The nine Democrats who are attempting to gain their party's nomination for President.

* Talk about sucking the political oxygen - let's rephrase that - talk about using up all the political oxygen in the Democratic Party! Not only is Hillary everywhere, but here comes Bill suggesting there ought to be a do-over on the 22nd Amendment so people like him could run for a third term.

* Hillary does best when she is portrayed as The Victim. At least in the parts of her book which have been made public, she will be working hard to reprise her well-rehearsed role.

[Carolina]

Models wear fashion by Hripsime Afsar during the Antwerp Show 2003 in Antwerp, Belgium, Thursday June 5, 2003. The annual show highlights designs by students from the Antwerp Fashion Academy, many of whom go on after graduation to become international designers with their own label. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

[BigWaveBetty]

Haha!! And leave it to Joy Behar to be the one who loves big hands and heads, but I'm betting only if they're on scum boy.

Now on a lovelier note, our President loves his troops!!

President Bush (news - web sites) runs with outstretched arms to cheering American troops at al-Udeid air base in Doha, Qatar, as he prepares to board Air Force One for a return flight to Washington, Thursday June 5, 2003. The soldiers and airmen waited in sweltering 100-degree-plus heat to greet the commander-in-chief as he wrapped up a seven-day trip to Poland, Russia, France and the Middle East. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

And they love him:

[BigWaveBetty]

Wash and wear no doubt.

[BigWaveBetty]

* America's Victim is back. In all her victim-ness.

* Hillary does best when she is portrayed as The Victim. At least in the parts of her book which have been made public, she will be working hard to reprise her well-rehearsed role.

Poor hillary will be the victim yet again when her book is released next week. You see J.K. Rowling's new Harry Potter book is due out next week also and is expected to blow hillary's! right out of the book stores.

Don't be angry hillary!. It's for the children! LOLOLOL!!!

[lodwick]

I noted elsewhere on FR today, a suggestion that we silently go into bookstores and quietly move a copy of her book, one at a time, into the Fiction sections. Love it. Barnes and Noble,,,,, here I come.


You're bad...what a great idea.

[lodwick]

* About eight people care about all of those put together, and I'm not one of them. And neither are you.

Classic.

One's of people will be rusing out to buy this pos book.

[Carolina]

LOLOLOLOL!

[Carolina]

One's of people will be rusing out to buy this pos book.

Even the cover of the book lies.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Hurl alert!!!!

June 6, 2003 -- HILLARY Clinton was prepared for questions about Monica Lewinsky on her upcoming TV interview with Barbara Walters - but she was caught off-guard when asked about reports the former President is a "womanizer."

"I ask her about other things that aren't in her book, [such as] the rumors that [ex-President Clinton] is a womanizer, and I questioned her about Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones," Walters told The Post.

"She knew most of the questions [about Monica] were coming, but some of them she didn't know were coming, like whether [the ex-president] is a womanizer, and does she still think it was all a 'right-wing conspiracy,'" Walters says.

Former First Lady and now-Sen. Clinton granted her first sitdown interview to Walters - who interviewed Lewinsky in 1999 - to hype her $8-million memoir, "Living History."

Walters says that, despite all she's been through, Hillary seems at peace with herself - and her husband.

"She seems happy now," Walters says. "This is my impression: I think she feels comfortable in the Senate.

"One of the things we talked about - her book is not just about Monica - is how she works with the same people who were out to impeach her husband and destroy the president, like Tom DeLay.

"She says that she's no longer the First Lady, she's a senator, and she's learned to work with these people," Walters says.

Walters says she think Clinton is "past" all the rage and pain she felt when her husband told her that, yes, he did have an affair with Lewinsky - after Hillary had strenously defended him for eight months.

"I know there are people who say she knew [about the Lewinsky affair] all the time, but when you hear her talk with such rage and pain . . . it's impossible to believe she knew," Walters says.

"I think she is past that now. I think from what I can see from how she talks and looks . . . that Monica and all of that is past.

"It took a long time and a Senate race to help," Walters says. "I think she's in a good place now . . . I think her relationship with Bill is good, and whatever happens in the future, she doesn't have to deal with this again.

"There's a feeling about her that she's very cold and contained and brittle," she says. What you don't realize is what a religious woman she is. She talks about getting down on her knees [during the Lewinsky crisis] and praying, alone, at 3 a.m. It's very intimate."

Walters' interview with Clinton airs Sunday (7 p.m./Ch. 7).

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Hmmmmmm…first pic taken for the book cover……yet second pic taken during Hillary's first six months as Senator (re: Spring 2001)

Hmmmmmm... Airbrush,... botox,... radiance,... Photo Shop,... plastic surgery,... Dorian Gray,... DEAL WITH SATAN!!!,...

…you decide!!!

  

                 "Hmmmmm...I don't know, could it be...SATAN?!"

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

How do you drive in that thing?

Could that be a modern burkha?

[lodwick]

I need to let the preview button be my friend...

TGIF guys!

[lodwick]

[lodwick]

"Some people give without asking and remember every kindness. Perhaps this is love in its purest form."

~ Flavia ~

[mountaineer]

My reaction to the 'Beaste's claim that, upon "finding out" about Monica, she gasped, couldn't breathe, etc., is to wonder whether she went through these same histrionics every time she learned about another of x42's dozens/hundreds of bimbos. I mean, he had been cheating on her since before they even were married, and possibly even impregnated a few while they either were engaged or married. She knew about all those Arkansas women. She knew about Gennifer Flowers. So is Monica the only one who ever made her choke? Funny, x42 probably is the only one who made Monica choke, too.

[mountaineer]

I think her relationship with Bill is good

That they see one another only about twice a year, and never actually sleep in the same house (or town, for that matter) probably contributes to that good relationship.

[Carolina]

Funny, x42 probably is the only one who made Monica choke, too

Ewwwwww. Agggghh. Don't need that image.