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Friday, February 29, 2008 12:00 AM

Hillary at twilight

Was her campaign stop in an Ohio town called Hanging Rock a metaphor -- or a symbol of dogged defiance?

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  • Friday, February 29, 2008 10:39 AM

    Hillary is indeed a fighter

    Sally Bedell Smith's has written a book, For the Love of Politics, that concentrates on their lives, during the WH years.

    In the book, Mickey Kantor, says of Hillary:

    "[she] was there everytime, fighting for how to make it bettter, how to deal with the situation." With Gennifer Flowers, Hillary was his advocate."

    "After the Flowers incident Hillary worked to contain anymore "bimbo eruptions", as her friend Betsey Wright described them. As Hillary's proxy, Susan Thomases consulted NY litigator Bernie Nussbaum, about their legal rights, liabilities. how to collect facts, hire investigators. Subsequently the campaign secretly paid private detective Jack Palladino, to dig up dirt on other women, Bill Clinton had been involved with."

    And this was before Monica Lewinsky.

    According to the book, blaming the press for their woes was a theme of Hillary's back in 1992, as well.

    I'm only 20 pages into the book, but it seems like the same patterns that ran the Clintons are running them this time.

    I can't support a woman for president, who was in charge of tamping down her husband's "bimbo eruptions" to the point of hiring a private investigator, to dig up dirt. Especially, since she's been running a fairly questionable campaign this time around.

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