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Jan. 24, 2002: Clinton Fatigue. It's the reaction people have when they hear O.J. hit his girlfriend, or they found Jeffrey Dahmer's cookbook. Yeah, so? This was yet another book on Hillary Clinton. This one tells by example why she is the way she is. It was very well-written. I read it in two days. One of the key sections o this book is a meeting between Hillary and entertainment executives. The author happened to be at the house in the kitchen. She fired up her tape recorder and got the entire speech. Mrs. Clinton was railing into the execs about the content of their movies and shows. I started to feel that maybe Hillary isn't that self-absorbed. Maybe her "caring about children" isn't really just talk. Then the author reveals she (Noonan) made the whole thing up. It would have been really nice if Hillary HAD made this speech. But Noonan's point had been made. Hillary wouldn't do the right thing at the expense of her political career, her "friends", or her cash flow. Noonan examines what Mrs. Clinton has accomplished in her career. Nothing. She's never authored one piece of legislation, or lowered taxes. There was the Health Care Reform debacle that she headed. She worked for a short time at the Rose Law Firm. She and her supporters talk about her leadership, her experience, and her ability to get things done. Huh?
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The other fascinating aspect of Mrs. Clinton was revealed in an interview with a close friend of Hillary's. She refused to say anything specific, but showed Noonan a book Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism. In summary, she says Bill and Hillary need to be loved and admired by others, but they also have a very inflated concept of themselves. It's a vicious circle. Without mass approval their concept of themselves falls. In other words, they need to be in our lives for a long, long time. This was an eye-opening and fascinating book. Not because we hear about all the scandals and problems with Hillary. But because we learn why she is the way she is. New York, I feel your pain.
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