Clinton Personality Insight

One Of These Is Not Like The Others: Two Clintons, No Waiting:

...All during her husband's administration, HRC was considered to be the more progressive of the two. She supported the accommodations he made to get re-elected, some of which were pretty damned ghastly. She also was one of the most vocal in defense of that administration against the organized ratfking that sought to destroy it. (The only mistake she made, as Calvin Trillin pointed out at the time was that she referred to a "vast right-wing conspiracy" rather than a creepy little cabal.) I once had a long conversation with a former Clinton lawyer. He told me that, if there were 1000 people in a room, and 999 thought Bill Clinton was a direct descendant of Jesus Christ, and one of them thought he was the spawn of Satan, Clinton would seek out that one person and spend the rest of the night and all the following day trying to change that person's mind. That is not something anyone ever has said about Ms. Rodham Clinton. The edges of her triangulations are all sharp ones...