WHAT WAS, What COULD HAVE BEEN, AND WHAT IS
What was:
Hillary Clinton was arrogant and orally abusive to her security
detail. She forbade her daughter, Chelsea, from exchanging pleasantries with them. Sometimes Chelsea, miffed at her mothers obvious conceit and mean spiritedness ignored her demands and exchanged pleasantries regardless, but never in her mother presence. Chelsea really was a nice, kindhearted and lovely young lady. The consensus opinion was that Chelsea loved her mom but
did not like her.
Hillary Clinton was constituently rude and abrasive to those who were charged to protect her life. Her security detail dutifully did their job, as professionals should, but they all "loathed " her and wanted to be on a different detail. She was hard work because she was so nasty and mean toward h! er detail. Hillary Clinton was uniformly despised by the secret service as a whole.
Former president Bill Clinton was much more amiable than his wife
Hillary. Often the secret service would cringe at the verbal attack antics that Hillary would use against her husband, the then president. They were embarrassed for his sake by the manner and frequency in which she verbally insulted him, sometimes in the presence of the secret service and sometimes behind closed doors. Even behind closed doors Hillary Clinton would scream and holler so loudly that everyone could hear what she was saying. Many felt sorry for President Clinton and most wondered why he tolerated it
instead of just divorcing his "attack dog" wife. It was crystal clear that the Clinton's neither liked nor respected each other and this was true long before the Monica Lewi! nsky scandal. Theirs was genuinely a "marriage of conv enience."
Chelsea was much closer to her father than her mother, even after the Lewinsky scandal which hurt her gravely. Bill Clinton did in fact have "charisma," and occasionally would smile at or shake hands with his security detail. Still, he always displayed an obvious air of superiority towards them. His security detail uniformly believed him to be disingenuous, false and that he did nothing without a motive that in some way would enhance his image and political career. They did respect him, unlike his wife, but
they did not particularly like him and nobody trusted him. He was polite, but not kind. |
