New Dick Morris book corrects the lies of Hillary's biography

By Jan Ireland

"Liar, liar, pantsuit on fire."

Dweeb. Acquisitor. Celebrity-fawner. Revenge-seeker. Motive-hider. Dirt-spreader. Bill Clinton-protector. Bill Clinton-enabler. Bill Clinton-mess-cleaner-upper. Inveterate liar.

Does this sound like the "smartest woman in the world," as Hillary Rodham Clinton has been rumored to be?

It's the impression that Dick Morris gives of Hillary Clinton in his new book "Rewriting Histor." She is shown to be a bare-knuckled, politically brawling broad willing to employ questionable methods and pursue almost any avenue to achieve power and status and even, recently at least, material possessions.

Mrs. Clinton, a term of address she is said not to care for, attempts to transform herself into HILLARY. Fawning supporters have described her as Hillary! — breaking punctuation rules to show their adulation. Her use of her former surname, Rodham, has only turned up occasionally, disappearing when she blatantly needs husband Bill's cache.

All her personas are simply reinventions in her attempts to shed the imperfect past. She tries to butterfly into more perfect incarnations. The recent sham of the calm, cool, sophisticated, dutiful wife, mother and senator is pierced. The would-be wizard behind the curtain is shown to be increasingly and venally ugly.

Her personas war with one another. Iron control alternates with episodes of heady risk. According to the book, many of the scandals over the years have actually been hers, often exacerbated by her increasing penchant for lying.

The customary phrases reviewers use when a book has succeeded apply to Dick Morris's "Rewriting Histor." It's good. It's interesting. Every page has something important to contribute. It's comprehensive in its scale, covering 25 years of Mrs. Clinton's political deals, scandals and controversies. And after 25 years of working with her, Dick Morris has a really long list of lies to correct.

But there is much more to the importance of this book.

It reveals the widely still-unacknowledged aims of the HILLARY omnibus. Mrs. Clinton wants to return to the White House. She feels it is her due. The dollars and adulation she and Mr. Clinton have accumulated in the recent past are not enough. Like a child of some war she never seems to feel she has enough.

Dick Morris thinks Mrs. Clinton actually cares about her "signature" causes of women and children. But this reviewer thinks Mrs. Clinton doesn't give a damn about you or me or America, other than as a platform to feed her sense of entitlement. I think Mrs. Clinton cares only for herself — and the addled, dissipated, soiled wreck of a husband she has protected throughout her marriage. She is a charlatan on the order of Reverend Al and Reverend Jesse. She certainly exceeds their abilities, but how many of you knew the "smartest woman in the world" failed an initial bar exam?

She is not as "charismatic" as Bill Clinton. Though she is happy for the public to think so, she does not wield the political power that he does. Her political successes have often been just damage control so that her husband could be reelected. That she became a carpetbagger Senator of a state she had never lived in and rarely visited was not her own accomplishment. She demurely allows the credit, but it likely would not have been possible without Bill Clinton's presidency behind her, and decidedly would have been in doubt if Rudy Guiliani's health had allowed him to stay in the race.

Knowing those things must make an arrogant elitist like Mrs. Clinton furious. Morris's "Rewriting History" must be making her apoplectic.

Let's give everybody in America a copy of this book — Hillary, HILLARY, and Hillary! fans included. In an age of terrorism, with the character of a president crucial, we can't let the rapacious Mrs. Clinton anywhere near the White House again. Our national china is at stake.

This little jingle bears repeating: "Liar, liar, pantsuit on fire."

© Jan Ireland