Feel Hillary's Pain

The big difference between Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton? Bill feels your pain, while Hillary wants you to feel hers.

Hillary really wants you to know just how hard it has been to be a woman competing against men. So she constantly makes up ridiculous stories.

Hillary wants you to understand that her childhood dream of becoming an astronaut was exploded on the launch pad because NASA wasn't taking women.

"I wrote a letter to the NASA space agency and asked how I could become an astronaut. And I got a letter back saying that they weren’t accepting women. Now, I have to be very honest with you. I could never have qualified." Notice that she said she has to be "very honest" after she dispenses her fable.

Hillary also wants you to know that she wanted to become a Marine, but the recruiter turned her away. There are two versions of this myth, which proves the adage that it's easier to get away with lying if you get your stories straight.

Hillary told the recruiter that she was then 27, and he replied, "Well, that is kind of old for us. Maybe the dogs will take you."

The other version, the one she tells to draw sympathy from easily-manipulated women, is that the recruiter told her, "You're too old, you can't see and you're a woman."

Every woman who burns with resentment at the thought of putting dirty clothes into a washing machine will relate. And now Hillary has a brand-new yarn. In her senior year at Wellesley, she sat for the law school admissions test.

"My friend and I were some of the only women in the room," she writes, when "a group of men began to yell things like: 'You don’t need to be here.' And 'There’s plenty else you can do.' It turned into a real 'pile on.' One of them even said: 'If you take my spot, I’ll get drafted, and I’ll go to Vietnam, and I'll die.'"

I don't believe for one second that all this happened in the exam room. Some of these conversations may actually have happened, and Hillary is framing this as a composite for us. It's quite likely that there were young men in her study group that expressed feelings like this.

After all, this was 1968, the height of the Vietnam War, when 16,899 young American men and innumerable other human beings perished. Does Hillary show any empathy for her classmates who might be drafted and shipped overseas? Not even a little.

That's what gets me about this story. It's quite possible that some of Hillary's classmates went off to war. Tens of thousands of young men her age never came home, but what's important to remember is that Hillary "had to learn as a young woman to control my emotions."

Poor baby.