Hillary keeps humanity in the game
by Columnist
Tony Norman
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Over the weekend, the Times published a fascinating piece about Hillary's correspondence with a high school buddy, John Peavoy, from 1965 to 1969. The letters are, to quote the article, "angst-ridden and prosaic, glib and brooding, anguished and ebullient -- a rare unfiltered look into the head and heart of a future first lady and senator and would-be president."
None of the 30 letters is reproduced in full, but the Times published excerpts that go a long way in undermining Hillary Clinton's image as a political automaton.
There was something intensely familiar about her solipsism. In one letter she writes: "Sunday was lethargic from the beginning as I wallowed in a morass of general and specific dislike and pity for most people but me especially." Who hasn't scribbled this same sentence in all of its purple-prosey glory while a freshman in college?
The more I read, the more I began to feel a sense of kinship with the insecure woman who would be president. She's not my first choice, but I'm going to give her more credit for being human. She has a capacity for genuine growth that isn't evident in most of her competitors.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07212/805645-153.stm