Remember the scene in
Casablanca when Capt. Renault responds with disbelief to the raid at Rick's? He says, "I'm shocked,
shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!" Then he takes his winnings from the croupier and slips them into his jacket.
That's how I felt after reading the Washington Post's scoop of two upcoming books about Hillary Clinton. Quoth the article: "The Hillary Clinton who emerges from the pages of the books comes across as a complicated, sometimes compromised figure who tolerated Bill Clinton's brazen infidelity, pursued her policy and political goals with methodical drive, and occasionally skirted along the edge of the truth along the way. The books portray her as alternately brilliant and controlling, ambitious and victimized."
So Bill Clinton cheated on his wife? I'm shocked. Shocked! These infidelities hurt her? Again, I'm shocked. Oh, and by the time a woman reaches 60 she can honestly be described as complicated and multi-faceted? Shocked, shocked, SHOCKED!
I've heard some serious allegations in these books, and since they are from respected investigative journalists and not foaming-at-the-mouth conservative hacks, I will review them and take them seriously.
But except for the fact that I want to know what influence Bill Clinton will/won't have on President Hillary Clinton, I don't care about their marriage.
I have been in enough relationships to know that no outsider can really know what goes on between a man and a woman. And, in fact, it's not uncommon for said man and woman to disagree about what's going on between them. So even if the stories are reported by Carl Bernstein or Don Van Atta, I take them with a grain of salt.
Reynaldo is asleep on top of the cable box, which puts him immediately to the right of Greg Maddux, who is pitching against the Brewers.
