Speak, Hillary

Monday, August 31, 1998

There is only one person we want to hear from after President Clinton spilled his guts. Hillary. Where is she? Is she p-----? Laughing? Filing for divorce? Still holding hands with her cheating husband?

After Bill went on national television to announce he cheated on his wife and then lied to her and the American public about it, Hillary's office went off to make an announcement of their own: "[Hillary's] committed to her marriage and loves her husband and daughter very much and believes in the President and her love for him is compassionate and steadfast."

That's it? Are you joking?

What is Hillary going to say at the next feminist summit she attends, "I love my husband?" Is she still the infamous feminist we once thought her to be?

Clinton unloaded his explanation because he had to. Hillary isn't under the same obligations, but none the less, we are still waiting for one. Her silence condones Clinton's actions and we certainly don't associate silence with feminism.

We never would have expected Hillary to go down in history with the other first wives, smiling, waving, virtually opinionless.

She held her head high through countless personal attacks.

Now she just looks like a seventh-grader with a new boyfriend, oblivious to any wrongdoing her beau commits. Next year, when his presidency ends, she'll be a year wiser and hopefully even a year tougher. Then she can stop smiling for a change and muster the nerve to dump him.