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    "Rodham" book frenzy Archived Message

    Posted by Raskolnikov on May 22, 2020, 11:25 am

    I was browsing some book reviews and came across this and then was not surprised when the fraudian went into a frenzy about it.

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/19/rodham-curtis-sittenfeld-review-hillary-clinton-bill-anne-enright

    "Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld review – where would Hillary be without Bill Clinton? The author of American Wife returns with a fantasy of what might have been, in which Hillary becomes her true self

    It's a fraudian wet dream; Hilary wins this time and it was all a man's fault that she didn't do it in real life. Spew.

    Then I found an article by the author which is almost beyond description.

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/15/what-if-hillary-had-become-president-curtis-sittenfeld-on-rewriting-clintons-life

    Even now, I’m one of those people who can’t bring herself to say: “If Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 election … ” Because, to me, she did win. She received nearly 2.9m more votes than Donald Trump, but of course Trump received more electoral votes. So instead I say: “If Hillary Clinton had become president” or “If the outcome of the 2016 election had been different … ” Finishing the sentence requires less finessing on my part; it is perfectly clear: “… I would not have written a Hillary novel.”

    If Hillary had become president, I wouldn’t have needed to. Instead of watching in real time as our country becomes a more racist, sexist, xenophobic and homophobic place, Americans would have had a leader committed not just to equality among people but also to addressing climate change, gun law reform and healthcare. And it seems equally unprovable and indisputable that her response to a global pandemic would have been vastly different – science-based, measured, compassionate.

    Come in Dr. Pangloss, your time is up.

    Then his first sub-headed paragraph starts with this:

    Multi-decade rumour mill notwithstanding, it’s hard to find examples of things Hillary has done wrong.[/i]

    The false accusations levelled at her range from murky acts of financial malfeasance, to bonkers conspiracy theories about paedophilia, to persistent suggestions that she mishandled email when she was secretary of state. On close examination, what’s striking about these supposed scandals is that they either have no relationship to reality or she’s being accused of something that I (and admittedly I’m not a lawyer) would not at first glance understand to be inappropriate, let alone illegal. After reading multiple accounts of the controversy around “Whitewater”, Bill and Hillary’s late 1970s real estate investment, I still would struggle to cogently summarise the sequence of events to another human. This murkiness contrasts with the events that currently unfold on a weekly basis in the White House – consider the New York Times headline on 21 April “Trump (the Company) Asks Trump (the Administration) for Hotel Relief” – that prompt me to sincerely wonder, how can this possibly be legal?

    It's hard NOT to fall over examples of her wrong doing unless you have your eyes closed and pretend you are constantly tying your shoelaces. Where do they get these throbbers? Truly nauseating not to mention deluded.

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