As Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama continually trade barbs back and forth as to whom will be the better administration, we have all watched as Hillary’s campaign has seemingly gone down in flames. Barack has won the past eleven campaigns and Hillary has not won any in recent weeks.
But, a lot of feminists, the Hollywood crowd, and MoveOn have also lost confidence in her as well. No one, it seems, really knows who the real Hillary is. Except Mrs. Clinton herself, and she seems to like it that way.
According to an article by Ronald Kessler in Newsmax, the conservative online magazine, those who have worked both with and around Hillary say that her public persona is not the same as her private one. In Mr. Kessler’s book, “A Matter of Character: Inside the White House of George W. Bush,” Kessler illustrates that guarding presidential candidates is a twenty-four hour a day job. He mentions the Secret Service agents assigned at various points to guarding Hillary during her campaign for the Senate were dismayed to find her two-faced and perpetually angry.
Mr. Kessler said that in gathering information for his book, a former Secret Service agent told him that during her ''listening tour,'' she planned “impromptu” visits at diners and local hangouts. He (Kessler) goes on to say that the agent told him that the events were all staged and that the questions were all screened.
He added that Hillary would plan stops at diners where her campaign had told the employees three days in advance that they were coming in. They would talk to the owner and tell him to invite everyone and bring his friends. Mentioning also that Hillary would fly into a rage when she thought her campaign staff had not filled enough seats and onlookers beforehand. Hillary had, and has an explosive temper.
In public, Hillary Clinton courted law enforcement officers, but she privately had a bad regard for them. The former Secret Service agent said that she did not want police officers in sight, preferring instead to have state troopers and local police to wear suits and stay in unmarked cars.
The former agent worried that unless the crowd knew that police were near, things might tend to get out of hand. In one incident in Syracuse, New York, a man aggressively accosted her for an autograph as she went outside her hotel for a walk.
When she stayed at the homes of Democratic supporters, they would show up at two in the morning and would stay in the master bedroom. Like her husband and his White House staff, Hillary and her staff were habitually late. Also, according to the former agent, she seemed to have ''children'' running her campaign. There was a constant lack of organization and maturity.
During her listening tour, the campaign staff planned a visit to a 4-H club in dairy farm country upstate New York. As they approached the outdoor event, she asked her staff, rather angrily, why they came there as there was no money for her campaign there.
As far as the Secret Service and White House staff saw it, Hillary and Bill had a business relationship and not a marriage. It was a political alliance; she portrayed herself as devastated by the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Kessler doubts that she really cared about it.
Ronald Kessler adds that in his book, according to the Secret Service, they bought the home in Chappaqua, New York to establish residence there so that she could run for the Senate, then, on to run for the presidency.
White House usher Christopher B. Emery was fired for returning former first lady Barbara Bush’s phone call. He had helped her to learn how to use her laptop and she was having computer trouble and he twice helped her out.
Mr. Emery was a father of four and could not find a job for a year, but yet on television Hillary speaks of compassion for the “little people.”
The truth is, a Secret Service agent said, Hillary did not speak to them and she never once said thank you.
