Sleeping History - Like a

Sleeping History - Like a lot of conservative bloggers, I'm holding off comment on Hillary! Clinton's new book. Unfortunately, I'd rather sit through a Green Party precinct caucus than actually read it.

And reading Mark Steyn's review of the book doesnt' make it sound one bit more promising:

Hillary's fans will buy the book, open Chapter One, and read, ''I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or mother . . . '' and think, well, that's just like the early bits of the Old Testament, all the begetting, or in this case all the things she wasn't begot as, so I'll just skip ahead to Chapter Two, and I'll bet it's really crackling along by now.

And Chapter Two begins: ''What you don't learn from your mother, you learn from the world' is a saying I once heard from the Masai tribe in Kenya.''

And you think, well, isn't that just wonderfully diverse, and she heard it from an actual tribe in Kenya! Any tribesman in particular? Or did they all yell it out in unison as her motorcade passed by? Either way, it's the sort of soothing multicultural sentiment that separates an enlightened progressive from rabid knuckle-dragging redneck Clinton-haters, and that's all you need to know. So you put the book up on the shelf and never open it ever again.

So maybe I'll wait for the movie.

(Via Powerline)

Posted by Mitch at June 15, 2003 11:16 AM