now apparently those who can't, write books.

Contrary to what this article purports and the far left would love you to believe, there is much to be learned by reading the truth about Hillary Rodham Clinton. My advice, read both books. I have read one already and plan to read the other. At least spend fifteen minutes in a bookstore browsing them... fifteen minutes is more than Hillary gave consideration to the full war briefing that she avoided talking about in last night's debate.

Read and learn that Hillary will say anything to get you to love her... don't vote in ignorance, that's what gave us GWB- ignorance and faith.

I have no problem with Hillary's gender or pedigree- it's her, personally and professionaly that I have grave doubts about...

Last night, as a defence of her brain-dead stance on Iraq and the "war on terror and other emotions" she said we are safer today than we were before 9-11... Every informed intelligence officer and report says otherwise. We are in a more dangerous world today not just because of GWB, but because of HRC.

Hillary Clinton, really, is a shrill, mean, calculating weather vane... go read what A. Huffington has to say about Hillary and these books. Hillary's ilk would LIKE you to believe this is "tired, old rhetoric." It is not. It is riviting, dispiriting, factual news.

Don't buy the Salon hype on this one. Go read the books and decide for yourself.

I don't think there is any mystery about who or what Hillary is.

From a very young age, at least going back to high school days, both Hillary and her husband have been professional politicians, whose main aim in life has been to hold the highest offices in the land.

This does not mean that they are insincere, or that they don't want to do good in the world. It does not mean that their religious faiths are phoney. Hillary is in fact somewhat typically Methodist in her outlook.

What is does mean is that they tend to triangulate their policy positions according to what they think will go down well with the electorate.

Hillary messed up over Iraq because she thought she was aligning herself with majority sentiments. Had she spoken and voted what she probably knew to be the truth, she would probably already be annointed (if Methodists can be annointed!) President-in-waiting.

Personally I don't care for her, but I suppose she would be as competent a chief executive as any of the other applicants.

I don't care about Hillary's marriage, or her adventures at the Rose Law firm, or ancient whitewater "history," or how much she prays.

I care that she is not qualified to be the Democratic nominee for president because she is a REPUBLICAN.

It's her votes, stupid: in case after case after case, she votes to help rich, powerful corporations and to hurt working people. For defense contractors and against the troops. For torture and against civil rights. For power and against freedom.

Hillary Clinton is as much a power-mad authoritarian fascist as is the Usurper, if not more so.

The more books and articles speculate about her sex life and ignore her totalitarian tendencies, the better she likes it.

Wake up, people! You're being distracted.

What is remarkable, at this late date, is not how many Americans feel hostility toward Hillary, but that so many still admire her

Who? Where?

It is no surprise then to find Bernstein muckraking the intimate problems of the Clinton marriage, despite the spectacularly embarrassing depiction of his own domestic troubles in a landmark novel by his former wife, Nora Ephron.

In what dream world is Heartburn a “landmark novel”?

It is a sign of changing times that these writers, permanent fixtures of the Beltway journalistic establishment, today feel obliged to acknowledge that the Clintons really did have enemies who were seeking to destroy them.

It’s Washington. Everyone has enemies seeking to destroy them. From Newt Gingrich to Al Gore, everyone is a target on someone else's hit list. To pretend this isn't the case to feign the worst sort of naivety. The question is, was there a “vast, right wing conspiracy” and why was Hillary using the bogeyman of a mighty cabal to detract attention from the very real actions that landed her husband at the center of a government scandal?

What is missing from both of these books is a sufficient appreciation for the political context of Bill and Hillary Clinton's first appearance on the national stage. Rising from obscurity and entering the White House in an era of conservative domination, they were forced to wage guerrilla warfare: sometimes losing, sometimes winning and, despite all their mistakes, notching achievements that look better and better in contrast to the disasters of the Bush years.

So, this is what’s important in a Hillary bio? Not her failure to recognize the threat in her own household because she turned a blind eye to it. Not her failure to recognize the threat in Bush’s push for war because she turned a blind eye to it. No, the important thing is to present a rosy Mr. Smith Goes to Washington image for a presidential candidate. Glad to know Salon has its priorities straight.

Who couldn't keep her husband's balls empty. But a pardon here and a heavily Jewish adopted constituency there and here she is running for President?

I'd sooner vote for Bush43, she makes me sick. Being scum is one thing, being unctuous scum is another.

Contrary to the whack job thinking of the extreme right, Hillary Clinton is not on the far left or even the near left. She has no right even to call herself a liberal. She's a DLC DINO with no apparent solid convictions of any kind. I would still take her over any Republican.

What scintillating ignorance we liberals have about our own history. So Hillary isn't simon pure enough for you? FDR was a devious, total shit, and he saved capitalism.

Stop being a 12 year old. Politics is a filthy business, and nobody who survives your purity test will last more than three seconds in the DC cesspool. In fact, that's precisely what put me off Edwards and Richardson, both of whom i initially preferred to Clinton. Any persons dumb enough to get caught up in that stupidity about the haircut [Edwards] or unprepared for and so readily cut up into pieces on Tim Russert's phony show MTP [Richardson] have no business running for national office today. The corporate media is the enemy of our country, and they could give two shits about you. Clinton damn well better have sharp elbows, and she better not play fair, and she should do whatever's necessary to get the War Party out of office, or we're going into Iran next. Don't like it? Too bad. You're probably the one who told Lieberman to announce that all the military ballots in Fla. had to be counted. You know; a loser.