A marriage of convenience

 
Newsbusters' Noel Sheppard describes a WOR interview with author Sally Bedell Smith. Smith's recent book on the Clintons -- "For Love of Politics" -- paints a startling picture of a relationship that is less a marriage than it is a business partnership.

On Bill's extra-marital affairs: ...[Hillary's reaction] was that he couldn't be that insane... if she heard that he sort of gone out and had a fling on the road, she could have believed that in a heartbeat. But it was the fact that it was in the Oval Office, you know, adjacent to the Oval Office that it lasted for, as it turned out, eighteen months, which is an astonishing length of time...

On Hillary staying with Bill after the affair and the lies: ...After he'd appeared before the Grand Jury... he did admit that he had lied to the American public for seven months. And, at that moment, it was worldwide humiliation. [One of their good friends said,] "Look, she was not about to divorce him for doing something that he had been doing for their whole married life, the only difference being the magnitude..."

On Hillary's calculations in staying with Bill: ...it was far more to Hillary Clinton's advantage to stay with Bill Clinton because she was already thinking about her own political ambitions. One of her top advisors [said]... that she fought the impeachment so hard and was such a chief strategist during that whole period [because she] saw her own presidential ambitions go down the drain...

On Hillary's reluctance to divorce Bill: ...if they'd gotten a divorce then, she wouldn't have had a, really, a chance in the Senate...

Good thing she's not a cold, calculating, carpet-bagging opportunist. I might get the wrong impression of her.