Posted by
Roxanna M. on Monday, December 31, 2007 12:48:05 PM
I know a man whose first wife was/is nuts. The actual clinical diagnosis is chronically depressed, paranoid psychotic, but nuts is nuts.
Once upon a time, deciding that she had had enough of being a wife and mother, she simply packed up her bags and left. The biggest casualty of her Kramer vs. Kramer act was her 14-year old daughter, whom she never even said good-bye to. That scar never healed and affected everything that child ever did, right up to her untimely death at a young age.
Somewhere along the line, dingbat, as she was so affectionately known, learned that telling people that she had walked out on her husband and children was not getting her any sympathy. In fact, it was making her look downright bad. New plan: she began telling people that her husband had left her for a younger woman, even though that younger woman had not come onto the scene for almost two years after her desertion. Details.
What about the children? Well, her husband and his new wife were blocking her from seeing them, which sounded so much better than saying she simply couldn't be bothered. This would have been so much more believable if she had just once filed a petition for custody. Bottom line: her children were of no interest to her except to use when it suited her purpose.
Eventually, dingbat saw the handwriting on the wall with regard to alimony and began looking for husband number two, eventually finding a man who was as big a loser as she. Each thought the other had money, and so they were married. When they discovered that neither of them had any money, this match made somewhere south of heaven was dissolved posthaste..
In order to save face after her second divorce, after nine months of less than wedded bliss, dingbat hit upon a rather novel lie: her ex-husband had bribed this man to marry her. Mercy, what a no-good SOB. Of course, there was no truth to this. But, in her addled mind, this made sense. It never once occurred to her how ridiculous this made her look, i.e., she was so pathetic that a man had to be paid to marry her.
Which brings us to Hillary Clinton.
Desperate to show that she has actually done something in her life that has not been a failure, i.e., healthcare "reform", she is now claiming that some of the trips she took as First Lady were dangerous. This is what happens when she departs from the script:
"If a place was too dangerous, too poor or too small, send the First Lady."
In her mind, this probably makes sense to Hillary. To the rest of us, it looks like Bill didn't like her much.