Sounds Like Eleanor to me!

“This is a woman who led a camouflaged life and continues to,” Cerl Bernstein told TODAY host Matt Lauer on Friday in an exclusive interview. “This book takes away that camouflage.” The book, which he called the first “real biography” of Hillary Clinton, will be available on June 5.

To tell the story of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s journey from a humble childhood marked by abuse at home to the White House, and later the U.S. Senate, Bernstein talked to about 200 close friends and advisers to the Clintons. Bernstein said he learned a lot about Hillary Clinton, including steps she took to try to silence the various women linked to her husband throughout his political career.

Bernstein mentions the women and the relationships in the book, but avoids the steamy, sensational details about Bill Clinton’s dalliances other books cover. If a reader wants those details, he told Lauer, they should “go to another book.”

“There’s not a sex act mentioned in this book,” he added. “What is important is Hillary savaging the women he was with, forgiving Bill repeatedly throughout their married life, but not forgiving the women he was with.”

Bernstein’s book also explores Clinton’s strained relationship with her disciplinarian father, the development of her religious convictions, and her political ideals that took shape during her studies at Wellesley and Yale Law School. The author goes on to disclose, among other things, that Bill Clinton fell in love with another woman while becoming a rising political star in Arkansas, and quotes insiders who say Hillary Clinton wouldn’t give him a divorce.

Philippe Reines, Hillary Clinton’s spokesman, dismissed the relevance of Bernstein’s work, saying the book is intended to make the Clintons look bad for profit, yet again. Lauer said Reines told TODAY: “Is it possible to be quoted yawning? This is an author’s agenda to take an old story and rehash for cash.”


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of course, my two cents...

All this sounds so much like the dedicated woman who managed the Domestic Front while he husband fought a World War in the Atlantic and Pacific Theaters. It sounds like Eleanor Roosevelt and, by God, we really will need someone like that in the next decade as the US tries to undo the damage done by the Bush regime. So she handled Bill's sexual issues and "girl friends" like... well... a good, loving wife, committed to her marriage. So, she rose from abuse and poverty to become a successful attorney, First Lady and Senator. So, she has the ability to "camouflage" herself. That should help in the Foreign Affairs as she tries to repair our tarnished reputation around the globe. Dang! Good for her and good for us if she elected President!

-Devon