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Defending Hillary: Sign of the Apocalypse?
Wow, Anne, and now I'm defending Hillary? Weird. But she really did not hitch her wagon to this upwardly mobile guy, and the rest is history. It was Hillary, even more than Bill, who was the superstar at Yale Law. Life magazine had already written glowingly about her ballsy Wellesley commencement address—in which she rebutted the guest speaker—and she was already "on her way to becoming a political meteor'' before she ever said hello to Bill Clinton, according to Carl Bernstein's excellent Hillary bio, A Woman in Charge. In fact, when they fell in love, campus cynics suspected that he was the one working an angle: "Some fellow students thought Clinton's attraction to Hillary was calculated, that he was trading on her renown to advance his own stature on campus and beyond.'' And most of her friends thought she was throwing away her shot at national prominence when she married him.
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